Here you can find a first glimpse of our upcoming events in March and April 2025. The full program with all details and dates will be published on February 18, 2025.
Program Preview March / April 2025
(February 27 until April 24, 2025)
Planet Hong Kong: Cinema in Motion
Collection on Screen: Mission: Impossible I, II, III
Here and Elsewhere: Considering Israel-Palestine in Essay Films
Liberation! New Beginning? Life After the Concentration Camp
Liberated Screen: Allied Film Politics, 1945–55
Cinema for Little Ones: Film Tricks
In Motion: Stefanie Weberhofer
A Visit from the Duisburger Filmwoche
Collection on Scren: Lav Diaz – Part 8 (Melancholia)
The Amos Vogel Atlas 2: Images of Sweden
Der Geschmack der Vergangenheit: Zum 10. Todestag von Siegfried Mattl
What is Film: Program 41–56
February 27 to April 23, 2025
Planet Hong Kong
Cinema in Motion
"Hong Kong cinema is one of the success stories of film history." With this sentence American film historian David Bordwell, who passed away in 2024, begins the first chapter of his groundbreaking book Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment. Our tribute to Hong Kong cinema's Golden Era – focusing on the boom period of the 1980s/90s before the handover to China – is also an appreciation of an especially cinematic popular filmmaking. Due to its strongly commercial orientation, intended above all to be worthy of export, the cinema of the Asian metropolis is extremely visual, as belied by its unbelievable action choreography. [...]March 13 to 20, 2025
Here and Elsewhere
Considering Israel-Palestine in Essay Films
The program presents a small selection of key essayistic works dealing with the context of Israel-Palestine which are analyzed in detail in Grabher's book Hier und Anderswo. Palästina–Israel im essayistischen Film (1960–2010). [...]March 15 and April 5, 2025
Cinema for Little Ones
Film Tricks
Cinema for Little Ones brings film programs, moderated by a film educator, 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? [...]March 16 and April 13, 2025
Liberation! New Beginning?
Life After the Concentration Camp
The liberation of the concentration camps by the Allies in 1944/45 marks a key moment in the history of the 20th century. 80 years later, this film series is dedicated to this historical event and its aftermath. [...]March 21, 2025
In Motion
Stefanie Weberhofer: Super 8 Film Program
Stefanie Weberhofer is impressively exploiting the artistic potential of analog Super 8 film. As she films, her subjects are rhythmized, multiplied, and captured with long-exposures or time-lapses. [...]March 22 to April 20, 2025
Mission: Impossible I, II, III
Collection on Screen
Tom Cruise hired hired star directors with their own signatures for each of the first three parts of Mission: Impossible: Brian De Palma, John Woo and J.J. Abrams. We are showing all three films on one weekend. [...]April 3 to 5, 2025
A Visit from the Duisburger Filmwoche
Entrusting films to dialogue, surrendering images to different viewpoints, archiving debates and keeping them alive – this aspiration is the motivation behind the Duisburger Filmwoche's second visit to the Austrian Film Museum. [...]April 6, 2025
Lav Diaz – Part 8
Collection on Screen
In 2022, we began a permanent exhibition of Lav Diaz' work as part of Collection on Screen. Melancholia (2008) will be presented on April 6. [...]April 10 to 23, 2025
Liberated Screen
Allied Film Politics, 1945–55
The film series Liberated Screen in collaboration with the Wien Museum provides three perspectives on this special form of cultural diplomacy between "nation building" and export economy. [...]April 16 and 17, 2025
Images of Sweden
The Amos Vogel Atlas 20
This program moves between formal experiments, activist documentaries, and animated films focused on kinetic research. [...]April 24, 2025
The Taste of the Past
Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of Siegfried Mattl's Death
Ten years ago, in April 2015, the death of Siegfried Mattl marked not only the passing of one of Austria's most imaginative and influential contemporary historians, but also a longtime friend and partner of the Film Museum. [...]Each Tuesday
What Is Film 41–56
Peter Kubelka's cycle What Is Film was created in 1996 on the occasion of the centenary of cinema. [...]
