So, I just got out of Muezzin at the City-Kino, which takes my CE09 scorecard to 22 features and about 27 shorts. My personal top ten:

1. René (Helena Třeštíková: documentary). This 20-years-in-the-making profile of a charismatic jailbird was the most startlingly unexpected surprise of the festival, a masterpiece that is quite simply one of the greatest documentaries of recent European cinema.
2. Involuntary (Ruben Ostlund : feature)
3. Inferno (Dario Argento : 1980 feature)
4. Ozean (Dietmar Brehm : short)
5. Verdrehten Augen - Videoversion 2 (Brehm :short)
6. Static (Inger Lise Hansen : 1995 short)
7. pereSTROIKA - reCONSTRUCTION of a flat (Christiane Büchner : feature)
8. Akt (Brehm : short)
9. The Wondrous World of Laundry (Hans Christian Schmid : feature)
10. Mother of Tears (Argento : feature)

And to end with, here's a nice, obliquely Linz-related quote from the book I was reading when I arrived here a week ago, Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (strongly recommended, by the way - as is the one I'm nearly finishing now, namely Journey Through Britain by John Hillaby), from which I extract the following, verbatim (pages 278-9.)
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A variety of asters are blooming along the road and among the dunes; with yellow centers and vivid purple petals, the flowers stand out against their background of rock and coral-red sand with what I can only describe as an existential assertation of life; they are almost audible. Heidegger was wrong, as usual; man is not the only living thing that exists. He might well have taken a tip from a fellow countryman: Wovon man nicht spraechen Kann, dareueber muss man schweigen.