Here you can find a first glimpse of our upcoming events in May and June 2025. The full program with all details and dates will be published on April 10, 2025.
Program Preview May / June 2025
(April 25 to July 6, 2025)
Dream Machine Cinema
Cinema for Little Ones: Tell Me a Story!
Premiere and Workshop Talk: #LOVE by Ludwig Wüst
Showing Atrocity Images: Visual History of the Holocaust
Talks with Women Film Pioneers: Lotte Klimitschek
Premiere and Book Presentation: Floating by Michael Pilz
Premiere: Am Telefon Milena Fina by Albert Sackl
A Visit from Crossing Europe
Liberation! New Beginning? Life After the Concentration Camp
The Amos Vogel Atlas 21: Rhody Streeter & Tony Ganz
Kurdwin Ayub: Turning the Inside Out
Digitaler Humanismus: Eno by Gary Hustwit
In Person: Christopher Harris
Alain Jessua. Life Upside Down
Fortress Europa: Border in Film and History
What Is Film: Program 57–63
April 25 to July 6, 2025
Dream Machine Cinema
Collection on Screen
"We were struck by the major similarities between dreams and film: the power they both had to create an unreal, fantastic world," noted the important director and theorist Jean Epstein. In parallel to the opening of the exhibition "Träume... träumen" in Schallaburg, we have chosen 57 shorts and features from our collection to provide a comprehensive overview of the many ways dreams and film are entangled, accompanied by many introductions and a curatorial talk about the topic. [...]April 27, 2025
Cinema for Little Ones
Tell Me a Story!
Cinema for Little Ones brings film programs to children ages 3 and up and their families. [...]April 27, 2025
Premiere and Workshop Talk
#LOVE by Ludwig Wüst
Ludwig Wüst will be our guest with his latest work, the episodic film #LOVE. [...]May 6, 2025
Showing Atrocity Images
Visual History of the Holocaust
The project "Visual History of the Holocaust" and the online platform developed in the project with the digitally indexed films and photos of the Allies will be presented. [...]May 7, 2025
Talks with Women Film Pioneers
Lotte Klimitschek
After the screening of the film Moos auf den Steinen (1968, Georg Lhotzky) editor Lotte Klimitschek will be in conversation with Niki Mossböck. Moderation: Julia Pühringer [...]May 8, 2025
Premiere and Book Presentation
Floating by Michael Pilz
Floating features a universe made up of tiny visual narratives; Conceived of by Michael Pilz, Die Weidinger Gespräche are an attempt at radically turning the act of speaking with one another into text. [...]May 9, 2025
Premiere
Am Telefon Milena Fina by Albert Sackl
Albert Sackl is among the most forceful representatives of the analog art film. We present his latest film as a Viennese premiere. [...]May 16, 2025
Crossing Europe
Crossing Europe Festival Linz presents two highlights from the festival's 2025 program. [...]May 18 to June 15, 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. This film series is dedicated to this historical event and its aftermath. [...]May 28, 2025
Rhody Streeter & Tony Ganz
The Amos Vogel Atlas 21
The short, pointed documentaries of Rhody Streeter and Tony Ganz are among the shining achievements of 1970s satirical Americana. [...]May 29, 2025
Kurdwin Ayub
Turning the Inside Out
Kurdwin Ayub's desire to subvert conventions with humor and to defy expectations runs through her often autobiographically inspired short films. [...]May 30, 2025
Digital Humanism
Eno by Gary Hustwit
On the occasion of the Digital Humanism conference, we are showing Gary Hustwit's archive documentary Eno. [...]May 30 and 31, 2025
Christopher Harris
In Person
Christopher Harris belongs to a generation of Black filmmakers at the fore of moving image art in the 21st century. [...]June 5 to 26, 2025
Alain Jessua
Life Upside Down
Alain Jessua (1932-2017) created a comparably small oeuvre of 9 features and one short film. His films are idiosyncratic and mischievous, haunting in their characterization, virtuosic in their formal qualities, and strikingly contemporary. [...]June 17 to 20, 2025
Fortress Europa
Border in Film and History
The films in this program hold up a mirror either to Europe's cartography or its treatment of "the stranger." [...]June 28, 2025
In a Protest State of Mind!
Artistic Research
Inspired by the form of the Cinétracts of 1968, students investigated the film aesthetics of resistance. [...]Each Tuesday
What Is Film 57-63
Peter Kubelka's cycle What Is Film was created in 1996 on the occasion of the centenary of cinema. [...]
