2015-'20 directorial showreel
'25 CLOSED FOR THE VIRUS BREAK (WORK IN PROGRESS)
short film / 25min / 16mm color

Logline March 2020. João recently moved to Vienna and has no one he can spend the lockdown with. Isolated in a small apartment, an HIV+ gay man finds himself confronted by his social responsibilities and the desire to belong. A 16mm analog essay film reflecting on stigma, sex, and being alone.

Cast: Luan de Lima, Thomas Höfner, Gabriela Salcher / Script: Bruno Kratochvil / Cinematography: Laura Ettel / Additional Producers: Raphael Menne, Paul Beck / Production Design: Uta Wiegele / Costume Design: Emily Guarcin / Sound Mixers: Daniel Holzberg, Christopher Büttner, Manuel Cyrill Bachinger 
'22 gschichtl we had a thing
short film / 28min / color
Festivals (Selection) Winner Shortynale '23 (AT) "Best Klosterneuburger Film" //  Winner Cinema Next Tour Wien '23 Favourite Film of the Jury
Special Mention Landshuter Filmtage '23 (DE) 
Diagonale (AT) // Poitiers International Film Festival (FR) // Elbe Dock (DE)
'16 kalb
short film / 8min / color
 
Festivals (Selection) Winner Audience Award 8th Ficu Lanterna México // 18th Woodstock Film Festival (USA) // 23rd Palm Springs Int'l Shortfest and Film Festival (USA) // // 42nd Odense Int'l Film Festival (DEN) // 46th Sehsüchte Int’l Student Film Festival (DE) // 22nd Diagonale (AT)
'22 schau nicht weg 
interactive film / 20-35min / color

An interactive educational film against workplace bullying. In collaboration with Webster University Vienna and funded by the Austrian Chamber of Labour. Play the full film here
'15 eisenherz
short film / 20min / black-white

Festivals (Selection) Nomination Oscar Qualifying Grand Prize For Best Narrative Short Film 20th Flickers’ Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival (USA) // 22nd Palm Springs Int’l Shortfest (USA) // 21st Nantucket Film Festival (USA) // 29th Foyle Film Festival( UK)
 // 31st Festival Internacional De Cine De Valencia – Cinema Jove (ES)

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