This year's BMWKMS', the Austrian Ministry for Culture's, Outstanding Artist Award in the Experimental Film category goes to Sasha Pirker. We quote from the jury's statement: "For over two decades, Sasha Pirker has been working at the intersection of (feminist) film, art and architectural history. High formal concentration and conceptual clarity are essential characteristics of her work. The artist combines feminist perspectives with subtle irony and negotiates spaces whose social structures are reflected in a clever and multi-layered way. Humor functions as a precise means of irritation. For Pirker, architecture is not only an object, but also a carrier of stories, attitudes and atmospheres - readable as a mirror and framework of human experience, which she subtly brings together in her films with a subtle sense of tempo, rhythm and visual composition."

We warmly congratulate Sasha - and we recommend you keep an eye out for her latest work Everyone deserves a Slice of the Pie at festivals this summer/fall.

Bleifrei 95, the short film debut by Emma Hütt and Tina Muffler, has been invited to the competition of the Pardi di Domani section at Locarno Film Festival, where it will celebrate its world premiere on August 7. (Photo: Poster/ Detail "Bleifrei 95")

Ivette Löcker's latest documentary Our Time Will Come will soon be shown in competition at 31st Sarajevo Film Festival.

Henry Fonda for President by Alexander Horwath and Some Memories by Lotte Schreiber can both be seen in the program of the renowned Dokufest Prizren.

Melbourne International Film Festival is showing She Dolls with Dollies by Karin Fisslthaler and Revolving Rounds by Johann Lurf and Christina Jauernik.

The Garden of Electric Delight by Billy Roisz, Beautiful Dead Woman by Jan Soldat and Karin Fisslthaler's She Dolls with Dollies were selected for the 36th edition of the Brazilian Festival Internacional de Curtas de São Paulo.