Program Preview December 2026

(December 1, 2026 to January 5, 2027)

Here you can find a first glimpse of our upcoming events in December 2026. The full program with all details and dates will be published around November 18, 2026.

December 10 to 20, 2026

I Don't Belong to Anyone
The Films of María Luisa Bemberg

María Luisa Bemberg deserves rediscovery as one of the world's most outstanding directors. Her feature films, all made between 1981 and 1993, are still greatly treasured in Argentina and were, together with Bemberg's self-conscious and activist personality, pioneering works for the next generation of female directors. Bemberg's films manage to be both explicitly political and compelling, sensual, and empathetic toward their richly diverse characters. [...]
December 4, 2026 to January 4, 2027

Jane Campion

Collection on Screen

In her work, New Zealand-born director, screenwriter, and producer Jane Campion reassesses different genres, leaves behind classical storytelling strategies to dramatize the inner lives of her decidedly unconventional and complex female characters, and finds unique visual languages for them. [...]
December 6 to January 4, 2027

Through the Night

Collection on Screen

There is something secretive about the time between dusk and dawn, and not only because of its shadow worlds. Beyond the daytime activities, other rules seem to apply at night. A cinematic journey from our collection. [...]
December 2 and 3, 2026

Siyabonana – We See One Another

Queer Cinema in South Africa

This two-day program brings together moving-image works by South African queer artists and filmmakers that approach this act of looking in different ways. Across documentary, fiction and experimental film, the works move between personal experience and collective history, intimacy and public life, memory and imagination. [...]
December 13, 2026

Cinema for Little Ones

Sun, Moon and Stars

Cinema for Little Ones brings film programs to children ages 3 and up and their families. This time a shiny film program for small and big dreamers. [...]
December 24, 2026

The Wizard of Oz

Christmas at the Film Museum

At Christmas – with a screening on the early afternoon of December 24 – we will be showing the MGM classic The Wizard of Oz (1939). [...]
December 26 to 30, 2026

Christmas Comedies: Marx Brothers Forever

Collection on Screen

Between Christmas and New Year's, we'll be showing six Marx Brothers films from our collection. [...]
On Tuesdays

Peter Kubelka's Cycle What Is Film

Programs 22–30

Peter Kubelka's cycle What Is Film was created in 1996 on the occasion of the centenary of cinema. [...]