NEWS

TOP SEKRET | TV premiere
TOP SEKRET will trickle across the screens for the first time on Sunday, 2021/11/21 at 11:11 p.m. on ORF 2 and will then be available on the TVthek for seven days.

TOP SEKRET: It's a wrap!
Our current project, the documentary TOP SEKRET by Karin Berghammer in co-production with ORF Kultur and Bayerischer Rundfunk is in the final stages of post-production.

GLORY TO THE QUEEN | FC Gloria Salon & VOD Release
GLORY TO THE QUEEN by Tatia Skhirtladze will be screened on 05 October 2021 as part of the FC Gloria Salon at the Admiralkino.
For all of you, who don't have time to come to the cinema, we have more good news: the film is now available on Vimeo on Demand!

TOP SEKRET | Sperm in Bavaria
In the first shooting phase of our new TV documentary TOP SEKRET (directed by Karin Berghammer) we got up close to the bodily fluids breast milk, blood and semen using an electron microscope (among other things). After this first immersion in the fluids we now follow the sperm to Bavaria!

GLORY TO THE QUEEN | @ Diagonale
We are happy to announce that GLORY TO THE QUEEN by Tatia Skhirtladze will be screened in competition at the Diagonale.
The original version with English subtitles will be shown on Thu 10/06 at 13:00 and on Sun 13/06 at 16:30.

TOP SEKRET | Start of filming
While our chess queens from GLORY TO THE QUEEN are finally on screen, we start filming TOP SEKRET, our new TV documentary in co-production with ORF Kultur and Bayrischer Rundfunk about the bodily fluids breast milk, blood and semen.

GLORY TO THE QUEEN | ROMY-Nomination
GLORY TO THE QUEEN, Tatia Skhirtladze's film about the Georgian chess queens Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Maia Chiburdanidze and Nana Ioseliani, is nominated for the ROMY industry awards in the category "Best Documentary Cinema"!

GLORY TO THE QUEEN | Cinema Release Austria
Please start the clocks for GLORY TO THE QUEEN. Our chess masters Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Maia Chiburdanidze & Nana Ioseliani open the next batch on Friday: The cinema release in Austria is on Friday, 23.04.2021.

LET IT COME SLOWLY | Premiere
LET IT COME SLOWLY accompanies four young women training to be midwives through different phases of their studies.
On 20th December 2021, the documentary will see the light of day on ORF2 and will then be available for 7 days online in the ORF TVthek .

GLORY TO THE QUEEN | Premiere in Austria
Tatia Skhirtladze's documentary on the topic of women's chess will be shown in Austria for the first time on 12 December 2020. After successful festival screenings at CinéDoc Tbilisi, an audience award at Slobodna Zona / Free Zone Festival in Serbia and an honourable mention at Doqumenta 2020 in Mexico, we are curious to see how the film will be perceived here in Austria.

GLORY TO THE QUEEN | World premiere at CinéDOC-Tbilisi
Tatia Skhirtladze's film about the 4 legendary female chess players Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Nana Ioseliani and Maia Chiburdanidze will celebrate its world premiere on Friday, 4 September 2021 in the amphitheatre of the elegant Samba Hotel in Tbilisi.

A LIFE FOR THE DEAD | Broadcasting dates
We are pleased to announce two broadcasting dates for A LIFE FOR THE DEAD. The documentary by Karin Berghammer & Krisztina Kerekes will be shown on ORF2 on 01.11.2019 and on 3SAT on 02.11.2019.

GLORY TO THE QUEEN | Interview
Sarah Hurtes interviewed our co-directors Tatia Skhirtladze & Anna Khazaradze about GLORY TO THE QUEEN in March 2019. We learn about their motives and motivation for making the documentary.

A LIFE FOR THE DEAD | Franz-Grabner-Preis
The Franz Grabner Prize, endowed with € 5,000 €, was awarded at the Diagonale'19 in Graz. Among this year's winners are Karin Berghammer and Krisztina Kerekes with A LIFE FOR THE DEAD in the category of television documentary.

IRGENDWAS MIT FILM | EXHIBITION
The touring exhibition "See it, be it! Irgendwas mit Film!" will be opening on Wednesday, 6 March at 12:00 in the auditorium of St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences.
As part of the opening event there will be a panel discussion with Karin Berghammer (producer, director, board member of FC Gloria - Frauen Vernetzung Film).

A LIFE FOR THE DEAD | Franz-Grabner-Preis Nomination
We are pleased to announce that we have been nominated for the Franz Grabner Award in the category TV documentary with A LIFE FOR THE DEAD. The award, endowed with 5,000€, will be presented at the Diagonale'19.

A LIFE FOR THE DEAD | ORF Nachlese
We find out about death, the Central Cemetery and above all about A LIFE FOR THE DEAD in the ORF "Nachlese".

GLORY TO THE QUEEN | Eurimages confirmation of funding
We are delighted to have received confirmation of funding from EURIMAGES for our documentary GLORY TO THE QUEEN (formerly: The Encounter). In its December meeting, the European funding fund made commitments to 11 feature films and one documentary film amounting to almost 3.2 million euros. Three Austrian (co-)productions received confirmations.
