Favoriten (film)

Favoriten is a 2024 Austrian documentary film, named after Vienna's tenth district in which the action is set, directed by Ruth Beckermann.

It is a film about teaching and learning in what some consider the equivalent of an inner-city school in Austria's largest city in response to recent migrations.

The film directed by Ruth Beckermann on the concept from her and Elisabeth Menasse-Wiesbauer, has Johannes Hammel as director of photography and Dieter Pichler as the editor.

[13][14] On 10 October 2024, the film was shown in a special screening in Cineplexx 3 organized by "Bildung grenzenlos" und AK, with post-screening discussion.

She opined, "The judicious honing of the material not only allows the film to flow, it makes commentary on the Austrian schooling system’s failures... all the more eloquent for being evoked rather than underlined."

[18] Nikki Baughan reviewing at Berlinale for ScreenDaily wrote, "Favoriten effectively navigates ideas of race, community and opportunity through its endearing, and often surprisingly insightful, subjects.