VdFS supports the following film festivals and events:

Austrian Film Festival

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

Cinema Talks

Cinema Talks is an innovative and young film festival that entered its second round in 2020. Up to 30 national and international short films will be presented - packed into four categories: Social, Extraordinary, Entertainment and Inspiration.

Der neue Heimatfilm

Over the five days of the festival, around 60 national and international feature films, documentaries and short films - including numerous Austrian premieres - invite audiences to approach the ever-topical subject of home from different perspectives and to engage intensively with it.

DIAMETRALE

DIAMETRALE is a platform for (inter)national filmmakers who stand out for their experimental approach and interest in the comic. Following the motto "useless and beautiful", the festival strengthens films that defy common attributions and are resistant thanks to comic, absurd, humorous methods.

dotdotdot

The dotdotdot short film festival spreads a relaxed open air atmosphere in summer. Handpicked short and medium-length films are on the program when the Volkskundemuseum Wien turns into the festival center of dotdotdot.

Ethnocineca - Online Edition

In the Ethnocineca - Online Edition 2020, eight documentary films could be viewed online over eight days. They are Austrian premieres and a curated selection from the originally planned festival program.

Filmverortung Waidhofen

Waidhofen can proudly look back on 100 years of moving film and 81 years of stationary cinema. Film screenings, a performance and an open screen in the film stage offer an overview of the history of film in WY. A project as part of Viertelfestival 2021.

frameout

The Summer Cinema at the MQ invites you to a nice mix of documentaries, feature films, animation, art and short films with free admission, celebrating cinema and digital culture.

FrauenFilmTage

With a program centered around socio-political themes as well as humorous works and films about young women's attitudes to life, the FrauenFilmTage provide exciting insights into the multifaceted world of female filmmaking.

Instant36 - Das Stegreif Filmfestival - Drehwochenende & Screening 

Instant36 is an open festival for film enthusiasts, where participants take on the challenge of making a short film within 36 hours. Fiction, documentary or animation - all forms are allowed. Three weeks after the competition, the screening takes place at ARGE Kultur Salzburg.

Internationales Kinderfilmfestival Wien & Steiermark

The most beautiful films for families, children and young audiences are gathered by the International Children's Film Festival in Vienna, Linz and Styria.

Jüdisches Filmfestival

The Jewish Film Festival Vienna brings Jewish filmmaking to Viennese cinemas and the big screen.

Juvinale

Juvinale is a festival with many faces around young, qualitative film with screenings, workshops, discussions.

KINO WIE NOCH NIE

Consistently analog - in that form of presentation of film that is inseparably linked to the experience of cinema - extraordinary city films from 100 years can be seen at the Augarten and METRO Kinokulturhaus in wonderful 35mm prints made in-house.

K3 Film Festival Villach

The festival K3 understands its eponymous terms "commerce, art, cinema" as an incentive to draw borders 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.

Linz International Short Film Festival

The 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 environment.

Mittelamerikanisches Filmfestival Wien

The Central American Film Festival Vienna sees itself as a cultural bridge from Central America to Europe and strives to make this small, yet creative film scene known.

Mountainfilm International Filmfestival Graz

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

PARADOXA - Filmfestival am Prameter Badesee

The PARADOXA - Film Festival, which took place for the first time in 2019, consists of a three-day film workshop for children and an open air cinema at the bathing lake open to all. The thematic leitmotif of the festival is the narrative of the monster in the bathing lake.

Poetry Film Festival

Poetry films and literary filmmaking, competitions, readings and performances by local artists as well as surprise guests from abroad are offered by the Poetry Film Festival in Vienna.

Queertactics

The first edition of Queertactics, the new lesbian_queer_feminist film series in Vienna starts under the motto "The world should become more queer and feminine".

/slash Filmfestival

Since 2010, the /slash film festival has been thrilling fans of fantastic film and has become an integral part of the Vienna Film Festival. The film program includes more than 40 Austrian premieres every year.

TRICKY WOMEN / TRICKY REALITIES

Since 2001, Tricky Women has put animated films by women in the annual spotlight, occupying a prominent thematic niche in the international festival landscape.

this human world - International Human Rights Film Festival

The International Human Rights Film Festival is held annually in Vienna under the banner of human rights. High-quality national and international films that deal with socio-political circumstances, problems and challenges in a wide variety of ways bring the worldwide treatment of human rights to the big screen.

UNDOX - Internationales Festival der innovativen Dokumentarfilmkunst

The festival is dedicated to innovative documentary film art. Only films that distinguish themselves through novel approaches and that break new ground in terms of production and narrative methods are honored.

VIENNALE

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

VIS Vienna Shorts - Online Edition

Short and Good! Vienna Shorts is dedicated to the short format. The program includes short and animated films as well as music videos.

VOLXkino

The traveling film festival plays numerous venues throughout Vienna during the summer months. The film program of the city's oldest open-air cinema includes a wide selection of current, explosive and successful documentaries, short films, music and feature films.

YOUKI

Austria's largest international youth media festival in Wels invites young filmmakers to exciting film screenings and a colorful supporting program. The core of the festival is the International Film Competition, which annually features around 80 short films by young directors between the ages of 10 and 26.

zeitimpuls shortfilm - digital version

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

2 Days Animation Festival

Since 2005, the festival has been dedicated entirely to animated film. The focus is on the claim to present the genre in its entirety.

VdFS supports the following initiatives and events:

Cinema Next
Making young Austrian film and its talents visible. The young talent initiative Cinema Next - Young Cinema from Austria has been dedicated to this since 2011. Happy 10th Birthday!

Diverse Geschichten - Szenische Lesung
Diverse Geschichten is aimed at screenwriters with an intercultural background. It was initiated to provide the best possible dramaturgical and practical support for both up-and-coming talents and professional writers.

DREHÜBUNG l Wien
In addition to offering training and continuing education opportunities, Drehübung l Wien sees itself as a platform, hub and place of exchange for young actors and actresses, where the focus is on content and quality.

EU–Jugendkino #humanrights
The EU Youth Cinema, initiated in the run-up to the last European elections, dedicates its latest edition to the topic of #humanrights. In its current edition, it makes an important contribution to the democratic understanding of human rights and sensitizes young people to diverse aspects around the focus.

EU XXL - Forum und Festival des europäischen Films
A forum for the promotion, mediation and dissemination of European film as well as an interface for the various aspects of film - that is the EU XXL FILM initiative, launched in 2003.

FC Gloria - Frauen Vernetzung Film
FC Gloria was founded in 2010 and is committed to women from various areas of the film industry. The vision is to represent the diversity of society in front of and behind the camera.

ONE WORLD FILMCLUBS
Since fall 2011, young people throughout Austria have independently founded film clubs at regular intervals as part of this initiative and organized numerous film screenings for their peers. The films shown deal with topics such as human rights, equality, the environment and racism.

Schule Friedl Kubelka für unabhängigen Film
The Friedl Kubelka School for Independent Film was founded in 2006. It promotes aspiring filmmakers and offers exchange, teaching and further education with renowned national and international film artists.

Stoffentwicklungsprogramm scriptLAB docu
The goal of scriptLAB docu is to support documentary directors in the early stages of developing material and concepts for feature-length cinema documentaries. The program includes dramaturgical support as well as financial support.

#we_do!
With #we_do!, the Austrian Filmmakers are creating a point of contact and advice against discrimination and unequal treatment, abuse of power, sexual assault and violations of labor law - for everyone working in the Austrian film and television industry.