Best Austrian short movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch short films from Austria, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

31/75: Asylum (1975)

Austria

A meadow, a lake, the silhouette of a hill, trees. 21 days of the same view in Saarland. 21 days with five different cut-outs in a mask before the camera, which finally reveals a complete panorama. The landscape changes with the advancing seasons and becomes slowly delirious in its technical alienation.

Runtime: 5 min

Status: Released

Language: xx

Genres: Short

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Arnulf Rainer (1960)

Austria

An experimental film, the last in Peter Kubelka's trilogy of “metric films”. Each frame of Arnulf Rainer is composed of darkness or light and silence or sound.

Runtime: 7 min

Status: Released

Language: xx

Genres: Short, Drama

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Bacchanal (2006)

Austria

Two young friends reveal their hidden desires by a theatrical presentation of Dionysus. The myth as well as the girl, initiating and redemptive becomes the catalyst of the hidden inner desires.’

Runtime: 12 min

Status: Released

Language: cs

Genres: Short, Drama

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Cause of Death (2020)

Austria

Through archival film footage, animation and spoken word poetry an experience of structural violence against women is exposed.

Runtime: 20 min

Status: Released

Language: en

Genres: Short, Documentary

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Fire & Rain (2009)

Austria

How do you make something last just a minute that actually takes ten times as long? You boil it down. "I took the steel rolling process that takes about 10 minutes", James Benning writes about Fire & Rain, "and condensed it down to one minute by cutting out portions and hiding the ellipses in time with dissolves".

Runtime: 1 min

Status: Released

Language: en

Genres: Short, Documentary

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