#‘Piggy Bank’ Explores the Climate Crisis Via a Mix of Self-Experiment, Mockumentary, Fact and Fiction

#‘Piggy Bank’ Explores the Climate Crisis Via a Mix of Self-Experiment, Mockumentary, Fact and Fiction

The Austria country focus of the 2025 Glasgow Film Festival showcases mostly fiction features and comes after a strong showing for Austrian films at the Berlinale. But Christoph Schwarz’s Piggy Bank, which gets its U.K. premiere at Glasgow on Monday, takes a very different approach, mixing mockumentary and self-experiment in a way that has become…

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#Killer Billionaires, Generational Poverty and Michael Haneke: Austrian Cinema Takes Center Stage at the Glasgow Film Fest

#Killer Billionaires, Generational Poverty and Michael Haneke: Austrian Cinema Takes Center Stage at the Glasgow Film Fest

“From the Heart of Europe: Austria on Screen” promises to bring “an eclectic mix from hard-hitting drama to absurdist comedy” to the 2025 Glasgow Film Festival, which kicked off on Wednesday and runs through March 9. Across 12 days, Scotland’s largest annual celebration of cinema will bring out such stars as James McAvoy, Ed Harris,…

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