First Snow of Summer

First Snow of Summer (Sterne unter der Stadt, 2023) is an Austrian romantic drama you can watch online on iFILM. When Alexander was ten, he made a promise to his grandmother: he would never fall in love. The reason was his father — after losing Alexander's mother, the man retreated entirely, choosing to live in the Vienna subway, cut off from everything above ground.

Now Alexander works in the underground lost-and-found, a few platforms away from his father. Then Caro walks in — the woman who runs a small hat shop right in the middle of the transit passage. Director Chris Raiber shoots the Vienna underground as a place with its own logic: neon-lit, suspended, oddly intimate. Verena Altenberger gives Caro the right kind of warmth that makes the oath feel genuinely hard to keep. Stream First Snow of Summer (2023) online on iFILM.