Here you can find a first glimpse of our upcoming events in December 2025. The full program with all details and dates will be published on November 19, 2025.
Program Preview December 2025
(November 28, 2025 to January 6, 2026)
Mai Zetterling: Filmmaker and Actress
CoS: Sergei Eisenstein – 100 Years of "Potemkin"
CoS: Christmas Comedies: Marxism and Its Consequences
Ruth Beckermann: In Praise of Detours
Lisl Ponger: Semiotic Ghosts - Book Presentation and Film Program
Cinematography of the Holocaust: Topographies of Persecution
Conversations with Women Film Pioneers: Birgit Hutter
Cinema for Little Ones: Sun, Moon, and Stars
Worlds of Images: Films for Lisette Model
Christmas at the Film Museum: The Wizard of Oz
What Is Film: Program 22–30
November 28, 2025 to January 5, 2026
Mai Zetterling
Filmmaker and Actress
Mai Zetterling (1925–1994) was a pioneer and groundbreaker in the world of film. She was not afraid to fund her projects in unconventional ways and her films often provoked debate about everything from gender roles and sexuality to seal hunting. Even in her 1964 feature debut Loving Couples, Zetterling emerges as a willful visual narrator who has more in common with filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel and Ingmar Bergman than the political realists of the 1960s. [...]December 3, 2025
Ruth Beckermann: In Praise of Detours
Conversation and Film Clips
Ruth Beckermann stands for an examination of history oriented around the precise observation of contemporary constellations. All of her films are now available on DVD and will be presented at the Film Museum. [...]December 4, 2025
Lisl Ponger: Semiotic Ghosts
Book Presentation and Film Program
Lisl Ponger is one of the distinctive voices of Austrian contemporary art. A new collection of essays edited by Elisabeth Streit and Dietmar Schwärzler will be presented in the presence of the artist. [...]December 7 and 8, 2025
Cinematography of the Holocaust
Topographies of Persecution
Conference and films on the topic of "Space, Movement, and Memory: Topographies of Persecution in the Cinematography of the Holocaust." [...]December 10, 2025
Conversations with Women Film Pioneers
Birgit Hutter
Following the screening of the film Klimt (2006, Raúl Ruiz), Anna Zeitlhuber and Julia Pühringer will talk with costume and production designer Birgit Hutter. [...]December 11, 2025 to January 5, 2026
Collection on Screen
Sergei Eisenstein – 100 Years of "Potemkin"
On December 21, 1925, Eisenstein's trailblazing work Battleship Potemkin premiered as the official film commemorating the 1905 Russian Revolution. We will present all of Eisenstein's features as well as rare short films, incomplete works, and other rarities. [...]December 14, 2025
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 15, 2025
Worlds of Images
Films for Lisette Model
In parallel to the Lisette Model exhibition at the Albertina, we present in a collaboration three related short film masterpieces. [...]December 22, 2025 to January 1, 2026
Collection on Screen
Christmas Comedies: Marxism and Its Consequences
As one of the most influential comedy groups of all time, the Marx Bros. also left sidesplitting traces throughout film history beyond their own filmography. We pay tribute to these traces with seven double bills: Each evening sees a "Marxist" masterpiece paired with another film from our collection related to the brothers. [...]December 24, 2025
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). [...]Each Tuesday