Here you can find a first glimpse of our upcoming events in January and February 2026. The full program with all details and dates will be published on December 17, 2025.
Program Preview January / February 2026
(January 7 to February 25, 2026)
Luchino Visconti
Collection on Screen: Senso '45
Collection on Screen: Let's Dance
Alexander Kluge
In Person: Nora Sweeney
Cinema for Little Ones: Colorful Gangs: Strong Together!
Cinema for Little Ones: Hopping, Sliding and Falling Down
What Is Film: Program 31–42
January 7 to February 25, 2026
Luchino Visconti
With Luchino Visconti (1906–1976), we again honor one of the greatest directors of the 20th century, whose inimitable style can still be found in contemporary world cinema and whose masterpieces have in many ways remained unsurpassed. Again and again, Visconti turned to world literature, but even when he staged historical material, he never lost sight of the present. Visconti's cinema delivers a portrait of the forces behind the 20th century's political and aesthetic sensibilities. With a breathtaking obsession for set design, which aimed for a maximum of realistic detail and artful stylization, he reconstructed a "lost time," whose decline appears inevitable – while always evoking the possibility of another path history might have taken. In this way, he created his own poetics of time: genuine "time-images" which prove he was a major dialectician. [...]February 1, 2026
Collection on Screen
Senso 45
Senso '45 by Tinto Brass (2002) is a free and loose Visconti revision that sticks closer to Camillo Boito's novel, while shifting the plot from 1866 to 1945. [...]January 14 to February 25, 2026
Collection on Screen
Let's Dance
Musical films defy gravity and transform movement into pure magic with artful camera movements, opulent mass choreography, and surreal lighting effects. [...]January 22 to February 19, 2026
Alexander Kluge
Since 1960, Alexander Kluge has been working as a filmmaker. For him, film remains a form of emotion and of thinking that ties together history and the present. His work does not aim for illustration, but insight. [...]January 15, 2026
In Person
Nora Sweeney
In her films, Nora Sweeney makes portraits of both people and places: The films trace the poetry of everyday life. [...]January 11 and 18, 2026
Cinema for Little Ones
Colorful Gangs: Strong Together!
Cinema for Little Ones brings film programs to children ages 3 and up and their families. This program is about solidarity in different situations in life. [...]February 8 and 15, 2026
Cinema for Little Ones
Hopping, Sliding and Falling Down
A program about acrobatic skills and how funny they can sometimes be. [...]Each Tuesday