The "FrauenFilmTage" (Women's Film Days) offer an exciting insight into the diverse world of female filmmaking with a programme on socio-political topics as well as humorous works and films about the attitude to life of young women.

Since 2001, "Tricky Women" has been focusing on women's animated films every year, thus occupying a prominent thematic niche in the international festival landscape.

Look East For Great Films - under this premise, the "LET'S CEE Film Festival" offers a multi-faceted film- and supporting programme and also invites intercultural exchange.

From May 7th to 14th 2020, eight documentary films can be viewed online for eight days. The selected films tell us about life in general, about waiting for change and trying to take control of our own destiny, revealing the full power and beauty of the cinematic narrative.

During the summer months, the nomadic film festival plays at numerous venues throughout Vienna. The film programme of the oldest open-air cinema in the city includes a wide selection of current, explosive and successful documentaries, short films, music and feature films.

"VIS" is completely dedicated to the short format. The programme includes short and animated films as well as music videos. VIS" wants to create suspense and stimulate the imagination, arouse curiosity and spur discussions, in short: generate an unbiased desire for short films.

Social commitment in short film - that's what zeitimpuls shortfilm stands for! The festival offers a varied programme for all age groups and spans an arc from the play with fear in terrorist reporting to visions of democratic dialogue and the fundamental values of our society- human rights.

The Juvinale is a festival with many faces around young qualitative film with screenings, workshops, discussions and the Juvinale Awards. The focus of the Juvinale is on establishing a network within Europe to facilitate communication among young filmmakers.

The summer cinema at the MQ offers a beautiful mixture of documentary, feature, animation, art and short films, celebrating cinema and digital culture. And all this with free admission.

The PARADOXA Film Festival, which will take place for the first time in 2019, consists of a three-day film workshop for children and an open-air cinema for all at the lake. The thematic spirit of the festival is the narrative of the monster in the lake. The films refer thematically to the water as a place of the uncanny.

"dotdotdot Short Film Festival" spreads a relaxed open-air atmosphere. Handpicked short and medium-length films are on the programme when the Volkskundemuseum Wien turns into the festival centre of "dotdotdot".

From classics to current productions, on the large open-air screen in the garden of the Filmarchiv Austria numerous films flicker during the summer months.

In the 32nd edition, on five festival days in Freistadt, around 60 international and national feature films, documentaries and short films - including numerous Austrian premieres - invite you to approach the topic of home from different perspectives and to engage intensively with it. In two international competition programmes (feature film and documentary), prizes are awarded by international juries.

Since 2010, the "/slash" has been thrilling fans of fantastic film and is now an integral part of the Vienna Film Autumn. The film programme includes more than 40 Austrian premieres each year, from acclaimed documentaries to blockbusters, from indie productions to reenactments of classics.

Shalom Oida! The "Jewish Film Festival Vienna" brings Jewish filmmaking to Viennese cinemas and the big screen.

The festival of national and international independent film presents carefully selected short, feature and documentary films.

The "Instant36" is an open festival for film enthusiasts, where the participants face the challenge to shoot a short film within 36 hours. After a topic has been announced, the film will be shot diligently. Fiction, documentary or animation - all forms are permitted.

300 feature films, documentaries and short films - this is Austria's largest international film event, which brings international flair to Vienna at the end of October and invites its visitors to a cinematic voyage of discovery through the cinema of the world.

The "Instant36" is an open festival for film enthusiasts, where the participants face the challenge to shoot a short film within 36 hours. Three weeks after the competition, the screening will take place at ARGE Kultur Salzburg. A renowned jury with personalities from the Austrian film and cultural landscape will award prizes to the best entries. The audience will also award a prize for the most popular film of the evening.

For the second time, Linz is transforming itself into an international short film metropolis, showing films from all over the world. The LINZ INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL was founded in 2018 with the aim of supporting young, talented filmmakers in their qualitative work and giving them the opportunity to present their creations in a professional setting.

Mountainfilm Graz is Austria's largest genre film festival in the field of mountain and nature. For the festival audience, this results in a wide range of themes, great stories and shots from the most diverse regions of our planet, waiting to be discovered.

The first issue of Queertactics, the new lesbian_queer_feminist film series in Vienna, starts under the headline "the world shall become queerer and more feminine".

The Central American Film Festival Vienna sees itself as a cultural bridge from Central America to Europe and strives to make this small but creative film scene known. In 2019, the latest audiovisual productions from Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama and Mexico, this year's host country, will again flicker across the screen, telling stories that are part of everyday life there, describing nature and landscape, or revealing world peculiarities.

The "International Children's Film Festival" in Vienna, Linz and Styria brings together the most beautiful films for families, children and a young audience.

Austria's largest international youth media festival in Wels invites young filmmakers to exciting film screenings and a colourful supporting programme consisting of Q&As, workshops, youth media projects, educational programmes, concerts and parties. The heart of the festival is the International Film Competition, which annually comprises around 80 short films by young directors between the ages of 10 and 26.

In November 2017, UNDOX, a worldwide unique international film festival, was launched. The festival exclusively honours films that distinguish themselves through new approaches and break new ground in terms of production and narrative methods.

The "International Children's Film Festival" in Vienna, Linz and Styria brings together the most beautiful films for families, children and a young audience.

2019 the 2 DAYS ANIMATION FESTIVAL takes place for the 15th time - including the One Day Animation Festivals. The spirit of the festival is explicitly the openness for artistic expressions in the range from avant-garde to entertainment, from experiment to narration, from student to artistically independent to commissioned works, and all this in the committed interest to also represent and promote a technical bandwidth from analogue to digital.

The International Human Rights Film Festival "this human world" takes place annually in Vienna under the banner of human rights. High-quality national and international films, which deal with socio-political circumstances, problems and challenges in a variety of ways, bring the worldwide handling of human rights to the big screen.

The "Poetry Film Festival" in Vienna offers poetry films and literary films, competitions, readings and performances by local artists and surprise guests from abroad.

The K3 Festival sees its eponymous terms "commerce, art, cinema" as an incentive to draw boundaries in order to cross them at the same time. The core of this cross-border festival is dedicated to the filmmaking of the regions of Carinthia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Slovenia.

Cinema Talks is an innovative, young film festival, 2020 the festival has entered the next round! From Up to 30 national and international short films will be presented - packed in four categories: Social, Extraordinary, Entertainment and Inspiration. Afterwards, the films will be discussed with invited speakers, giving the audience an understanding of the subject matter of the films and the art of filmmaking.