Here you can find a first glimpse of our upcoming events in October / November 2025. The full program with all details and dates will be published on the evening of October 7, 2025.
Program Preview October / November 2025
(October 17 to November 27, 2025)
Jean Epstein
Viennale at the Film Museum
Collection on Screen: Halloween Horror
In Person: Borjana Ventzislavova
Hot on Cool: TV Between Show and Fourth Estate
Cinema for Little Ones: Day and Night
20 Years School for Independent Film
Karl Sierek: Wege. Spuren und Bahnen der Bewegung im Kino (Vol 4)
What Is Film: Program 15–21
October 17 to November 27, 2025
Jean Epstein
Viennale/Film Museum-Retrospective
Jean Epstein (1897–1953) was a French filmmaker, critic, and theorist whose work bridged avant-garde experimentation and poetic realism. His enormously diverse body of cinematic works is today perhaps best remembered for a series of films (both shorts and features, documentaries and fiction) that channel his lifelong fascination with the harsh, rugged beauty of Brittany's landscapes, seascapes, and human inhabitants, resulting in certified masterpieces like Finis Terrae (1929), Mor'Vran (1930), or Le Tempestaire (1947), while his La chute de la maison Usher (1928) remains the most hauntingly beautiful and poetic rendition of Edgar Allan Poe's eponymous story.The films will be accompanied by improvisations from internationally acclaimed silent film pianists Elaine Brennan, Meg Morley, and Maud Nelissen, complemented by two special film concerts featuring new compositions by Ingrid Schmoliner and Alex Kranabetter, as well as Billy Roisz, Karolina Preuschl, and Isabella Forciniti. [...]
October 17 to 28, 2025
Viennale at the Film Museum
The Austrian Film Museum is not only the venue for our joint retrospective with the Viennale, Jean Epstein, but also a festival cinema. [...]October 29 to 31, 2025
Collection on Screen
Halloween Horror
This year, for the second time, we celebrate Halloween with a selection of horror classics from our collection. [...]November 5 and 6, 2025
In Person
Borjana Ventzislavova
In her work, Austrian-Bulgarian film artist Borjana Ventzislavova always examines current socio-political topics, which she navigates via docu-fictional narratives. [...]November 6 to 27, 2025
Hot on Cool
TV Between Show and Fourth Estate
70 years of television in Austria offers an opportunity to reflect on the development of a mass medium which in the second half of the 20th century was the defining medium to represent and shape society and still is today in many countries, even as clear changes in its current digital existence have emerged over the past decades. [...]November 16, 2025
Cinema for Little Ones
Day and Night
Cinema for Little Ones brings film programs to children ages 3 and up and their families. This time we discover the passage from day to night from different perspectives. [...]November 20 and 21, 2025
20 Years School for Independent Film
The film programs bring together former teachers and students from the past twenty years and provide insight into the intergenerational discussions that have developed over the years at the School for Independent Film. [...]November 26, 2025
Karl Sierek: Wege (Vol. 4)
Book Presentation and Film Programs
The six volume book series Wege. Spuren und Bahnen der Bewegung im Kino brings together path-building and film-making. [...]Each Tuesday