DIAMETRALE – Film DFestival for Experimental, Humouristic and Absurd Movies
Festival 2025, 9th Editon
Get out of the predictable, one-size-fits-all entertainment deserts and walk into the paradise for the beautiful and weird! Apart from cinematic, aesthetic and social conventions, we have strung together the most dazzling moving image pearls for you to create a cinematic eye-catcher - the 8th edition of DIAMETRALE.
Marvel with us at shrill bad-taste icons, fairy-tale revenge plots, grotesque (nightmare) dream worlds, sparkling psychonaut trips and outlandish superhero stories. In addition to the funny, sensual and lunar short film kaleidoscopes, lectures and talks - including the 50th anniversary of the local satire classic DER UNTERGANG DES ALPENLANDES (THE DOWNFALL OF THE ALPINE LAND) in the presence of Oscar nominee Christian Berger - promise to be very special detours into the film universe.
A film festival for all those who like to be surprised and celebrate the absurd with us, because “absurdity is the only possible way”. (TB)
Useless & Beautiful
DIAMETRALE is a platform for national and international film, music and art creators who are characterized by their experimental way of working and their interest in absurd ways of life.
Experiment and humor undermine common forms of expression, break or play with conventions and thus encourage reflection on what already exists. In addition, both work with the clash of expectations and the non-compliance with them. This creates funny, absurd and humorous moments that are also potentially resistant. DIAMETRALE presents original images and contrasting listening experiences that use precisely these mechanisms and thus lead to fresh reflection on art and society. This opens up new perspectives regarding aesthetic, interpersonal or socio-political topics. DIAMETRALE provides a necessary counterpoint, especially in our optimization-crazy consumer society.
A film festival for all those who like to be surprised and celebrate the absurd with us, because “absurdity is the only possible way.” (TB)
In addition to the large festival, which has its regular date in spring, DIAMETRALE Nachtvisionen (“night visions”) take place annually in autumn. With this film series we want to bring the tradition of late-night movies back into art house cinemas. The films of DIAMETRALE Nachtvisionen fall into the realm of transgressive, cross-genre cinema of the 60s, 70s and 80s, which only unfold their full effect at night due to their dazzling aesthetics and bizarre set designs.
DIAMETRALE film festival is organized by DIAMETRALE – Verein zur Förderung experimenteller und komischer FilmKunst – and Kulturkollektiv Contrapunkt , in collaboration with Leokino Innsbruck .
Team
Marco Friedrich Trenkwalder, Judith Salner, Nadja Studenik, Maurice Kumar, David Prieth, Eva Mattle, Marian Wilhelm, Magdalena Salner