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
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. [...]November 4, 2026
Films by Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek
Olga Neuwirth is one of the most important composers working today – however, as a filmmaker and video artist, she is almost unknown. Since her studies in San Francisco, she has worked intensely with the moving image and the history of animation; 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 in conversation with Dieter Bandhauer. [...]November 11, 2026
Linda Christanell (Part 1)
Linda Christanell (born 1939), belongs to the Third Generation in Austrian avant-garde cinema – a group of filmmakers who staged a kind of "new beginning" at the close of the 1970's. To accompany an exhibition dedicated to her at the Künstlerhaus and mark the completion of a comprehensive digitization project of her film works, we present two programs of short films. [...]November 14, 2026
Tiffany Sia
In Person
The work of Hong Kong-born artist and filmmaker Tiffany Sia 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 – and where official documents and visual recordings hit their limits. [...]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