Program Preview May / June 2025

(April 25 to July 6, 2025)

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.
 
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

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 von 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's 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. [...]