1000,– € – POWERED BY BESTATTUNG HIMMELBLAU

Eight outstanding, nonconformist, generally awesome features by predominantly young filmmakers compete for SLASH’s main prize.

Golden Urn nominees:

About a Hero (Piotr Winiewicz)
Buffet Infinity (Simon Glassman)
Dead Lover (Grace Glowicki)
Fucktoys (Annapurna Sriram)
Her Will Be Done (Julia Kowalski)
Mad Mask (Nagano, Katsuya Arai)
Rabbit Trap (Bryn Chainey)
Roqia (Yanis Koussim)

Jury

Ben Croll (CA)

is a critic and journalist based in Paris. He writes about film as an art and industry for the U.S. trades and covers cinema, theater and contemporary art as a roving critic in broadcast and print. He is an on-air contributor to France24 and author
of The Art of Eric Guillon.

Florentina Holzinger (AT)

© Annette Hauschild/OSTKREUZ

is a choreographer, performance artist, and director, and ranks among the contemporary scene’s most groundbreaking artists. Combining acrobatics with martial arts, stunts, and splatter, her works test the potentials of physical performance art. 2024 saw her playing the lead in Kurdwin Ayub’s feature film Moon.

Norbert Pfaffenbichler (AT)

is a filmmaker, artist, and curator who studied Media Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In addition to numerous short films, installations, and interventions, he made three major contributions to Austrian underground genre cinema with his 2551 feature film trilogy.