For the last 50 years, the Viennale has screened its exceptional program in Vienna’s most beautiful cinemas. In addition to contemporary feature films in all their forms, genres and narratives, the festival devotes itself to documentary cinema, international short films as well as experimental works and crossover projects.
Since 2004, Erste Bank has become the Viennale’s main sponsors. In 2011 Erste Bank founded and awarded the Viennale Erste Bank Film Award for the first time. The winner of the Viennale Erste Bank Film Award receives a cash prize, a two-month residency as a visiting film scholar in New York City, a stay in a Greenwich Village apartment provided by Deutsches Haus at NYU, a presentation of their award-winning work to a New York audience, as well as the reimbursement of the traveling expenses.
The Viennale Erste Bank Film Award is realized in co-operation with the Viennale, Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.
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2022
Eve Heller with Singing in Oblivion
Jan Soldat with Blind Date
Jury: Silvia Bohrn (cultural manager), Boris Manner (curator, philosopher), Jed Rapfogel (Anthology Film Archives)
2021
Sebastian Meise with Grosse Freiheit (Info)
Jury: Silvia Bohrn (cultural manager), Boris Manner (curator), Andreas Ungerböck (publisher)
2020
Pavel Cuzuioc with Bitte warten (Info)
Georg Tiller & Maéva Ranaïvojaona with Zaho Zay (Info)
Jury: Yasmo (rapper), Renata Schmidtkunz (journalist), Kira Kirsch (artistic director)
2019
Elsa Kremser and Levin Peters with Space Dogs (Info)
Friedl vom Gröller with L'Avenir? De F.V.G.? (Info)
Jury: Silvia Bohrn (cultural manager), Boris Manner (curator), Jed Rapfogel (film programmer)
2018
Wolfgang Fischer with Styx (Info)
Sara Fattahi with Chaos (Info)
Jury: Silvia Bohrn (cultural manager), Boris Manner (curator), Franz Schwartz (former director of the Stadtkino Vienna 1981-2008)
2017
Ruth Kaaserer with Gwendolyn (Info)
Jury: Silvia Bohrn (cultural manager); Nicolas Mahler (cartoonist); Boris Manner (curator)
2016
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel with Mister Universo (Info)
Katharina Copony with Moghen Paris - und sie ziehen mit (Info)
Jury: Silvia Bohrn (cultural manager); Boris Manner (curator); Franz Schwartz (former director of the Stadtkino Vienna, 1981-2008)
2015
Jakob Brossmann with Lampedusa im Winter (Info)
Claudia Larcher with Self (Info)
Jury: Sylvia Bohrn (Cultural Manager); Ruth Goubran (Erste Bank); Martin Rauchbauer (former director of Deutsches Haus at NYU); Franz Schwartz (former director of the Stadtkino Vienna, 1981-2008)
2014
Sudabeh Mortezai with Macondo (Trailer) (Info)
Gerhard Treml and Leo Calice with Eden's Edge. (Info)
Jury: Sylvia Bohrn (Cultural Manager); Martin Rauchbauer (former director of Deutsches Haus at NYU); Franz Schwartz (former director of the Stadtkino Vienna, 1981-2008)
2013
Gustav Deutsch with Shirley - Visions of Reality (Trailer) (Info)
Juri Rechinsky with Sickfuckpeople (Trailer) (Info)
Jury: Sylvia Bohrn, (Cultura Manager); Werner Brix (actor); Franz Schwartz (former director of the Stadtkino Vienna, 1981-2008)
2012
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel with Der Glanz des Tages (Trailer) (Info)
Jury: Ricarda Denzer (artist); Boris Manner (curator); Franz Schwartz (former director of the Stadtkino Vienna, 1981-2008)
2011
Gerald Igor Hauzenberger with Der Prozess (Trailer) (Info)
Jury: Nikolaus Mahler (author and illustrator); Franz Schwartz (former director of the Stadtkino Vienna, 1981-2008); Verena Teissl (curator)