Thomas Schubert

The award-winning directorial debut of Karl Markovics, star of The Counterfeiters, Breathing is the uplifting and inspiring story of Roman Kogler (Thomas Schubert), a young man who after taking a probation job to avoid prison, makes a startling discovery that triggers him to explore his past and search for the mother who abandoned him as a child. A compelling drama distinguished by its restrained observational direction and the emotional intensity of the performances, Breathing marks the start of a promising new career for Markovics.

Self-important novelist Leon holidays as a forest fire rages nearby, in Christian Petzold’s humorous take on finding meaning in our lives against a backdrop of existential peril.

A mysterious stranger arrives in a snow capped Austrian mountain village claiming to be a travelling photographer from America, yet is in fact an embittered gunfighter on a mission of vengeance.

13-year-old Roma boy Ernst is sent to a mental sanatorium in Nazi Germany. There he is kept under the watchful eye of Dr. Werner Veithausen (Sebastian Koch, The Lives of Others), who has been tasked with carrying out the early stages of the Nazi's euthanasia program.

One hundred years after his death, Egon Schiele is still considered one of the most provocative Austrian painters of the 20th century. Schiele’s radical paintings scandalize Viennese society while daring artists like Gustav Klimt and art agents alike are sensing the exceptional. But Egon Schiele is also prepared to go beyond his own pain, to sacrifice love and life for his art. This enlightening biopic shines a light on the troubled, yet brilliant, artist and his muses.