Here you can find a first glimpse of our upcoming events in January and February 2025. The full program with all details and dates will be published on December 18, 2024.
Program Preview January / February 2025
(January 9 to February 26, 2025)
Luigi Zampa & Luciano Salce: Comedy and Character
Claire Simon. Each Life is a Novel
Cinema for Little Ones: Talking with Hands!
In Person: Jan Soldat. Männer(t)räume
Holocaust Remembrance Day: Premiere: Occupied City
The Amos Vogel Atlas 19: A Visit from the Prague Videoarchiv
Liberation! New Beginning? Life After the Concentration Camp
What Is Film: Program 27–40
January 9 to February 26, 2025
Luigi Zampa & Luciano Salce
Comedy and Character
Combining razor-sharp satire and popular entertainment, the commedia all'italiana was world renowned between the 1950s and the 1980s. To start off the year, we turn to two underappreciated directors who perfectly concentrate the commedia's essence of satire and social critique: In the pointed, contemporary filmic documents of Romans Luigi Zampa (1905–1991) and Luciano Salce (1922–1989), we find a comprehensive and unsparing portrait of social and moral progress. [...]January 17 to February 24, 2025
Claire Simon
Each Life is a Novel
Here in Austria, the major work of French filmmaker Claire Simon remains almost unknown. Simon, a regular guest with her films at international festivals, has been making extraordinary work for over forty years, including both documentaries and features, radically examining the private and political. With Claire Simon in attendance [...]January 12 and February 23, 2025
Cinema for Little Ones
Talking with Hands!
Cinema for Little Ones brings film programs to children ages 3 and up and their families, accompanied by discussions and activities in the cinema. In this program, not only do images talk, hands do too! [...]January 15 and 16, 2025
Jan Soldat. Männer(t)räume
In Person
Jan Soldat is one of the most idiosyncratic filmmakers working today. His films have been shown in renowned festivals like Cannes, Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, and the Berlinale as well as short, porno, and niche festivals. [...]January 25 and February 23, 2025
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Premiere: Occupied City
We show the Austrian premiere of Occupied City by Steve McQueen, a remarkable examination of the National Socialist occupation of his elected home Amsterdam. [...]January 29, 2025
A Visit from the Prague Videoarchiv
The Amos Vogel Atlas 19
To mark the occasion of the new publication A Cartography of Moving Images, we will be visited by the book's editors, who will present a selection of short films from the collection of the Videoarchiv at the Národni filmový archiv in Prague. [...]February 16, 2025
Liberation! New Beginning?
Life After the Concentration Camp
At the opening of the joint film series of the Mauthausen Memorial and the Film Museum, Liberation! New Beginning?, a neglected masterpiece of Holocaust cinema will be screened: L'heure de la vérité by Henri Calef (1965). [...]Each Tuesday
What Is Film
Program 27–40
Peter Kubelka's cycle What Is Film was created in 1996 on the occasion of the centenary of cinema. [...]
