AUSTRIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2026 • Saturday, April 18
16:00 Little DKC
LITTLE DKC – a film programme for children and youth, which is being implemented for the first time within this year’s Austrian Film Festival at the initiative of the Belgrade Cultural Center, in cooperation with the selector and colleagues from the Austrian Cultural Forum. It provides an opportunity for younger audiences to watch the film The Adventures of Franz by Johannes Schmid on Saturday, April 18th 2026 at 4 p.m. for a special ticket price of 200 dinars.
TALES OF FRANZ / GESCHICHTEN VOM FRANZ
Austria, 2022, 78’
Director: Johannes Schmid
Cast: Jossi Jantschitsch, Nora Reidinger, Leo Wacha, Ursula Strauss, Simon Schwarz, Maria Bill…
Family comedy based on themes from the book series “Geschichten vom Franz” by Christine Nöstlinger, published by Friedrich Oetinger. Franz is by far the smallest guy of his class. He has blond ringlets and gets a high squeaky voice when he is excited. Fortunately he has his two best friends Gabi and Eberhard to help him out. When Franz discovers one day the “10 Rules for a Real Man” of influencer Hank Haberer, their world is turned upside down and their friendship gets into serious trouble.
Special ticket price – 200 dinars
18:00 ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED / ELFRIEDE JELINEK – DIE SPRACHE VON DER LEINE LASSEN
Documentary
Austria, 2022, 96’
Director: Claudia Müller
Participate: Martin Wuttke, Sandra Hüller, Ilse Ritter, Maren Kroymann, Sophie Rois, Stefanie Reinsperger…
A child prodigy, a scandalous author, a “traitor to the fatherland,” a feminist, a lover of fashion, a communist, a “language terrorist,” a rebel, an enfant terrible, a provocateur – an artist, both brilliant and vulnerable. Claudia Müller’s film about Elfriede Jelinek, who in 2004 became the first German-language writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, focuses on her artistic approach to language. Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed is a multi-layered, associative film portrait, full of contradictions – a work that, from close proximity, explores the author’s technique of linguistic montage.
20:00 THE SOUFFLEUR
Austria, 2025, 78’
Director: Gastón Solnicki
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Lilly Lindner, Claus Philipp, Stephanie Argerich…
After thirty years of managing a legendary hotel in Vienna, Lucius learns that the building has been sold to an Argentine investor who plans to demolish and redevelop it. With the help of his daughter and a few loyal employees, he clings to the life he has built. What follows is a crusade of detours, espionage, and paranoid struggle to preserve a disappearing world – and the only home he has ever known. The conflict with the system, as well as the internal battle unfolding within Lucius, affects everything, including the hotel’s famous soufflé recipe. In an unpretentious and meditative manner, Solnicki tells a story about the fragility of dreams and ideals, routines, and the changes the world is undergoing – drawing a parallel with the soufflé, which requires knowledge, skill, and above all, patience. In this unusual black comedy, Willem Dafoe delivers a masterful performance as a man unwilling to accept that a familiar world is irreversibly vanishing before his—and our—eyes, collapsing like a failed soufflé. The film premiered in the Orizzonti competition at the 82nd Venice Film Festival.
Tickets: 400 din
