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Producing films which aim to disturb, Austrian director Seidl's work blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction and he is on the record saying that he doesn't distinguish between feature films and documentaries. This strand celebrates his work.

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Import/ExportDog Days
(Country: Austria; Director: Ulrich Seidl; Writer: Ulrich Seidl, Veronica Franz; Cast: Maria Hoffstatter, Alfred Mrva, Erich Finsches, Gerti Lehner, Franziska Weib, Rene Wanko, Claudia Martini, Victor Rathbone, Christian Bakonyi, Christine Jirku, Victor Hennemann, Georg Friedrich)
Sexual humiliation and dark desires amongst disillusioned overweight Austrians in hot weather.

(Country: Austria; Director: Ulrich Seidl; Writer: Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl; Cast: Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas, Maria Hofstätter, Georg Friedrich, Natalya Baranova, Natalja Epureanu, Erich Finsches, Herbert Fritsch, Susanne Lothar)
A look at migration and social borders in Europe, tracing two emigres' attempts to find a better life - by moving in opposite directions.

(Country: Austria; Director: Ulrich Seidl; Writer: Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl; Cast: Elfriede Ahmad, Waltraute Bartel, Hans-Jürgen Eder, Thomas Grandegger, Thomas Ullram, Angelika Weber, Tanja Müller, Elisabeth Sucham, Heribert Exel, Saleem Ahmad)
Seidl employs one of the most intimate of human experiences – prayer – as an entry point into revealing the everyday complaints and deepest secrets of his subjects.

(Country: Austria; Director: Ulrich Seidl; Writer: Michael Glawogger, Ulrich Seidl; Cast: Paul Hutterová, Vladimir Kundrát, Rusena Machaloyá, Alois Paur, Sepp Paur, Miroslav Sedlar, Stepánká Srámkoyá)
The social impacts of a relationship held across borders, contrasting the differences in wealth between East and West Europe.


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