Here you can find a first glimpse of our upcoming events in September/Ocrtober 2025. The full program with all details and dates will be published around July 31, 2025.
Program Preview September / October 2025
(September 2 to Oktober 16, 2025)
John Carpenter. Complete Works
Amos Gitai: Words with Gods
Thomas Arslan. In Motion
John Smith: Unreliable Narrator
Cinema for Little Ones: Film Tricks
The Amos Vogel Atlas 22: Cinédoc
Alanis Obomsawin: Centuries of Resistance
Milica Tomić: On Love Afterwards
David Puttnam: Mahler
Talks with Women Film Pioneers: Gerda Fritz
What Is Film: Program 1–14
September 4 to October 16, 2025
John Carpenter
Complete Works
We dedicate the start of our season to probably the most influential living genre director in the United States: John Carpenter. A film school drop-out born in 1948, Carpenter already began to attract attention as a staging virtuoso with his own signature in the early 1970s with his first, low-budget independent productions. The worldwide success of his third feature, Halloween (1978), established him early on as a master of horror. This label fails to do justice to Carpenter's versatility, however, even if he – not least for his distinct love for the fantastic – often returns to this genre. But with his unmistakable approach, Carpenter has inscribed himself in genre cinema from sci-fi to action thriller and including a few comedic interludes, most of which are scored by his own electronic compositions, whose catchy minimalism is as memorable as the dazzling clarity of his visual compositions. [...]September 3, 2025
Amos Gitai
Words with Gods
The goal of this event is to spark a discussion based on Amos Gitai's contribution to the omnibus film Words with Gods. With Amos Gitai in attendance. [...]September 11 to October 12, 2025
Thomas Arslan
Arsenal on Location
Thomas Arslan has been a key figure in contemporary German cinema for close to 30 years. As a representative of the so-called Berlin School, he has renewed German cinema with an aesthetics based on reduction and enriched it with a stylized, everyday realism. This collaborative project with Berliner Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst offers the first opportunity in Vienna to experience Arslan's entire oeuvre. Thomas Arslan will be our guest on the first days of the retrospective. [...]September 13, 2025
John Smith
Unreliable Narrator
British artist and filmmaker John Smith has created over sixty films, videos, and installations that interrogate the language of the moving image and will be present to introduce two short film programs at the Film Museum. [...]September 14 and October 12, 2025
Cinema for Little Ones
Film Tricks
Cinema for Little Ones brings film programs to children ages 3 and up and their families. In this program, we look at a few film tricks and consider together: How did they do that? [...]September 17 and 18, 2025
The Amos Vogel Atlas 22
Cinédoc
Cinédoc presents a selection of French films from the Paris Films Coop's formative years. [...]September 24 to 27, 2025
Alanis Obomsawin
Centuries of Resistance
Alanis Obomsawin is one of Canada's first and most influential indigenous filmmakers. As a director, singer, and activist from the Abenaki Nation, she has left her mark on documentary storytelling for over five decades – with an unmistakable voice which uncompromisingly advocates for the rights and self-determination of indigenous communities. [...]September 25, 2025
Milica Tomić
On Love Afterwards
Milica Tomić, whose work is research-based and spans i.a. the mediums of photography, video, installation art and performance, will present a film program. [...]September 29, 2025
David Puttnam
Mahler
Following the projection of Mahler (1974, Ken Russell), producer David Puttnam will be available for a discussion. [...]October 15, 2025
Talks with Women Film Pioneers
Gerda Fritz
After the screening of the film Die Nachtmeerfahrt (1986, Kitty Kino), Claudia Wohlgenannt and Julia Pühringer will talk with producer Gerda Fritz. [...]Each Tuesday