BERNHARD KAMMEL was born in the fall of 1962, in Vienna

Author, designer, photographer, filmmaker, producer, forester, wildlife ecologist, horse-breeder.

University studies: 1980–1995 | architecture, theology, and forestry

In the late 70s, while still in high school, Kammel began crafting stories, poems, and dramatic fragments, publishing short fiction and reports in newspapers and cultural journals. Around the same time, he explored black-and-white still photography through essay projects. After graduating from Sacré Coeur in 1980—where he earned the nicknames “the Horse” and “the Philosopher”—he oscillated between career paths as a racing cyclist, photographer, psychologist, and architect, all to keep his writing free from the pressures of making a living. During the 1990s, he worked at several well-known architectural firms, including Franz E. Kneissl. By 1999, he transitioned into color portraiture and large-format narrative photographic canvases. In 2005, he founded his own film production company, allowing him to realize his vision entirely: he produces his films, writes original screenplays, casts every role, designs the visual framework (sets, camera, and editing), and directs, while operating the camera himself.

WORKS:

2022, his novella SNOW WHITE was published at Om books in New Delhi

2016 – 2018, re-invention of the former Grand Etablissement Gschwandner as REAKTOR

FILMOGRAPHY

Elysium Hernalsiense
AT 2017 / English / dcp / 76 min. / world premiere September 2nd 2017, Festival des Films du Monde Montréal

Ночь на закате лета | A Late Summer’s Night
AT 2011 / Russian / c 35mm / 82 min. / world premiere 1st July 2011, 33rd Moscow International Film Festival

The Daughter
AT 2008 / German/Hungarian/Bulgarian / b&w 35 mm/ 90 min. / world premiere 2nd April 2008, Festival of Austrian Film: Diagonale in Graz


AWARDS

Kolkata 2024 – Best International Film
 
Varanasi 2022 – Best Foreign Feature Film

Chicago 2018, Antonioni Award – Best International Feature

Orenburg 2011 – Award of the Sarmantic Lion

Lipetsk 2009 – Andrej Tarkowskij Special Prize


FESTIVALS

9th NEZ International Film Festiva, Kolkata 2024, Best International Film

2nd Manikarnika International Film Festival, Varanasi 2022, Best Foreign Feature Film

European Film Festival, Bishkek 2019

Global Cinema Festival, Siliguri 2019

7th BLOW-UP International Arthouse FILMFEST, Chicago 2018, Antonioni Award – Best International Feature

41e Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal – World Film Festival Montreal 2017

33rd  Warsaw Film Festival – Free Spirit Competition

20th International Festival of Actor – „Sozwezdie“ Yaroslavl

10th International Film Festival „Autumn on the Amur“ – Blagoveshchensk

20th International Film Festival „Festival of Festivals“ St. Petersburg

17th Vilnius International Film Festival

16th Sofia International Film Festival 

4th Orenburg International Film Festival  – Award of the Sarmantic Lion

33rd Moscow International Film Festival

18th International Kino Forum Zolotoy Vityaz, Lipetsk 2009 – Andrej Tarkowskij Special Award

13th Sofia Intern. Film Festival

16th Intern. Festival of Festivals Sankt Petersburg

Diagonale 08, Graz