Pillion at Kino de France
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- The practical details Claire checked before this went into the index.
- When
- 7 July 2026
- Where
- Kino de France, Schottenring 5, 1010 Wien
- Price
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Harry Lighton's debut feature premiered at Cannes 2025 and immediately earned the label "dom-com" — a romantic comedy about a BDSM relationship between a nerdy traffic warden (Harry Melling) and a brooding motorcycle rider (Alexander Skarsgård). Based on Adam Mars-Jones's 2020 novella Box Hill, the film is funny, tender, and genuinely candid about desire and power in ways that most British films are not. Lighton is a self-taught writer-director whose short films include the award-winning Wren Boys (2017); this is his first feature and it arrives fully formed. Sight & Sound called it "electrifying." Screening in OmdU at Kino de France on July 7 — one night only.
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Niwemang (Half Moon) at Österreichisches Filmmuseum
- When
- 27 September 2026
- Where
- 1st · Innere Stadt
Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon follows a Kurdish musician crossing from Iran into Iraqi Kurdistan for one final concert—a journey that becomes a meditation on displacement, forbidden music, and borders drawn through a people's homeland. Ghobadi, the first Kurdish director to win at Cannes, made this film partly inspired by Mozart's Requiem; the result feels both mythic and urgently political. The Filmmuseum screens it Sunday 27 September at 20:30 as part of the RISE UP! Film – Form – Freiheit retrospective, with an introduction by Rojda Tuğrul. This is a one-night-only event with genuine curatorial framing. The Filmmuseum's archive-quality projection and intimate space give a film like this the weight it deserves. If you've never seen Ghobadi's work, this is the entry point.
Read the note →Wohin der Wind uns trägt at Schikaneder
- When
- 22 September 2026 – 28 September 2026
- Where
- 4th · Wieden
Amel Guellaty's debut follows Alyssa and Mehdi, two 19-year-olds on a road trip across Tunisia chasing a drawing competition prize and, implicitly, a way out. The film moves with playful ease — Mehdi's sketches come to life on screen, Arabic indie music carries them through sun-drenched landscapes. What emerges is a portrait of young people discovering their own potential, the kind of coming-of-age story that feels specific to Tunisia but speaks everywhere. Guellaty premiered at Sundance in January 2025. It's rare for Tunisian cinema to reach Viennese screens, rarer still for a debut to arrive with this much care. The Schikaneder — a small, committed cinema — is exactly the kind of place that takes these chances. Screens in OmdU (original with German subtitles) Sept 22–28.
Read the note →Zanele Muholi In Person at Österreichisches Filmmuseum
- When
- 23 September 2026 – 28 September 2026
- Where
- 1st · Innere Stadt
South African visual activist and photographer Zanele Muholi will be in Vienna for a week-long program of their film work at the Österreichisches Filmmuseum, September 23–28. For over two decades, Muholi has documented the lives of Black queer people in South Africa — their photographs and films are acts of resistance against erasure, combining portraiture, autobiography, and community archive. This year Muholi received the Hasselblad Award, one of photography's most prestigious prizes. A major exhibition opens at Foto Arsenal Wien on September 19, and the Filmmuseum screenings are timed to coincide with it, making this a rare convergence of one of the world's most important living visual artists presenting their film work in person. The Filmmuseum, housed in the Albertina building, is the right venue for this intersection of cinema, photography, and political testimony.
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