Here you can find a first glimpse of our upcoming events in October and November 2026. The full program with all details and dates will be published around October 13, 2026.
Program Preview October / November 2026
(October 23 to November 30, 2026)
Robert Aldrich
Viennale at the Film Museum 2026
Films by Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek
Cinema for Little Ones: I Can Do It All By Myself!
Book Presentation and Film Program: Karl Sierek: "Wege. Spuren und Bahnen der Bewegung im Kino" (Vol 5)
Linda Christanell (Part 1)
In Person: Tiffany Sia
50 Years of the Medien Archive Austria
Tsitsi Dangarembga and the International Images Film Festival for Women
Peter Kubelka's Cycle What Is Film: Programs 17–21
October 23 to November 30, 2026
Robert Aldrich
Viennale/Film Museum-Retrospective
Robert Aldrich (1918–1983) directed international hits such as Vera Cruz (1954), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and The Longest Yard (1974). His masterpieces like the apocalyptic film noir Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and the bleak revisionist Western Ulzana's Raid (1972) redefined entire genres. With incomparable consistency, Aldrich succeeded in incorporating his critical, personal worldview into mainstream cinema. Yet, although he was already celebrated as one of the great auteur directors in Hollywood at the beginning of his career and has since influenced generations of filmmakers, his works have remained more famous than the man himself. [...]October 23 to November 3, 2026
Viennale at the Film Museum
The Museum is not only the venue for our joint retrospective with the Viennale, Robert Aldrich, but also a festival cinema showing special programs and contemporary works from numerous filmmakers. [...]November 4, 2026
Olga Neuwirth/Elfriede Jelinek: Films
Olga Neuwirth is one of the most important composers working today – however, as a filmmaker and video artist, she is almost unknown. In her creative work, sound and picture are inextricably linked. Her years of collaboration with Elfriede Jelinek play a central role here. [...]November 8, 2026
Cinema for Little Ones
I Can Do It All By Myself!
Cinema for Little Ones brings film programs to children ages 3 and up and their families. This time with films about courage, independence, and little mishaps, inviting children to laughter and wonder. [...]November 9, 2026
Wege (Vol 5)
Book Presentation and Film Program with Karl Sierek
Following the screening of A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger), Karl Sierek will present the fifth volume of his book series Wege. Spuren und Bahnen der Bewegung im Kino. [...]November 11, 2026
Linda Christanell (Part 1)
On the occasion of the exhibition LINDA CHRISTANELL: Die Gaben der Göttin at Künstlerhaus, we will dedicate a two-part complete retrospective to her unique body of films. The first part illustrates the breadth and variety of her work: from the early short films to 2002's Picture Again, which focuses on film as material and cinema as gaze. [...]November 14, 2026
Tiffany Sia
In Person
Tiffany Sia's work encompasses film, installation, and text, combining forms of visual storytelling with critical theory. Starting from historical research, archival footage, and field and sound recordings, she investigates how images and sounds form history. [...]November 16, 2026
Preserve, Remember, Organize
50 Years of the Medien Archive Austria
The Medien Archive Austria (MAA), the umbrella organization of Austrian audiovisual archives, museums, and collections, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, and the Film Museum will host the festivities. [...]November 18 to 20, 2026
Tsitsi Dangarembga and the International Images Film Festival for Women
In Person and Carte Blanche
Born in Mutoko, Zimbabwe in 1959, dramatist, writer, activist, and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga is one of the most important female voices on the African continent. Her artistic and political practice has oscillated for decades between the written word and the screen. [...]Each Tuesday