| Position | Ivette Löcker |

Retrospective with premiere for the documentarist

Ivette Löcker in Berlin in October 2024 © Diagonale / Jürgen Keiper

The Diagonale is delighted to dedicate one of its Position programs in 2025 to documentary filmmaker Ivette Löcker. Profound, emphatic, socially relevant – what is remarkable about her films is how easily they bring together different qualities. The director, who was born in 1970 in Bregenz, grew up in Lungau and now lives in Berlin, is one of the country’s most exceptional filmmakers, despite her discreet cinematic approach. Her works often focus on the worlds of couples, into whose relationships Löcker delves with enormous sensitivity. Her focus on the personal always additionally describes a totality of social relationships. In her latest film Our Time Will Come, which will premiere at the Diagonale, she explores the obstacles that stand in the way of an Austrian-Gambian couple’s love. In What Binds Us (2017), a film about her parents, which, like Nachtschichten (2010), was awarded the Grand Diagonale Prize of the Province of Styria for Best Documentary Film, she was ruthlessly open about generational issues. For the first time, all of Löcker’s works will be shown in a solo retrospective.