Cordula Rieger

* 2000

Cordula Rieger is a French and Austrian film student, born in 2000. Since Oktober 2020, she is studying directing in the class of Michael Haneke at Filmakademie Wien. She has written and directed several fictional and experimental short films, as well as documentaries. Breaking with prevailing representations of women as passive victims, she directed the play “Eine Frau.” (2017), based on the experience of a woman participating in the Austrian resistance during Second World War. In 2018, she wrote, directed and acted in the movie “Antigone - I have no love for a friend who loves in...