Open-air cinema

Every summer in Vienna, numerous open-air cinemas show films on a wide range of topics. Admission is free of charge at the Musical Film Festival at City Hall and at the wandering "Volxkino". Original versions with English or German subtitles can often be seen.

At the annual Music Film Festival, Vienna’s City Hall Square becomes a meeting point for music lovers and night owls - with free film screenings and culinary delicacies. The range of music films shown covers everything from opera to pop.

Kino unter Sternen (cinema under the stars) at Karlsplatz is also free of charge. It’s program focuses on Austrian films. The movie series “Fremd” (foreign) shows works that deal with borders and exclusion, with continuity and change. The special “Wonderama” offers a selection of film musicals produced by German-speaking filmmakers in Hollywood from the 1930s onwards. Some of the names are Peter Lorre, Anton Walbrock and Otto Preminger.

Kino wie noch nie (Cinema like never before) at Augartenspitz shows numerous Austrian premieres of successful international and domestic films. A small tribute will be dedicated to the Czech director and two-time Oscar winner Miloš Forman who passed away this year. The focus of “Make Love, Not War” is on the 1968 attitude towards life. At the cinema sessions, classic silent movies will be accompanied by extraordinary live music. Culinary organic delights complete the offering.

Kino am Dach – the cinema on the roof of the Main Library on Vienna’s Gürtel celebrates its 15th birthday this year and will show the best films of past years on this occasion. Award-winning international productions such as “Cinema Paradiso” and Woody Allen's “Annie Hall” are on the program. Current Austrian films will be shown every Wednesday.

The Kammergarten (privy garden) at the Lower Belvedere will also once again be transformed into an open-air cinema – this year under the motto “Spirit of 68.” Movies such as “Easy Rider,” “Zabriskie Point,” “Captain Fantastic,” and “Die Vaterlosen (The Fatherless)” are a must, of course.

The Arena Summer Cinema shows an exciting mix of popular and unusual films. Come and find a comfy spot on the meadow with the blankets provided.

A traveling cinema in the old tradition is the Volxkino. It pitches it tents at unusual locations: between market stalls or municipal buildings, in parks or by subway stations. The focus lies on prize-winning films from around the world and current films from Austria. Admission is free.

A small festival for short films is dotdotdot, held in the garden of the Austrian Folklore Museum. Themed “We're in this together now!”, 150 short films will create the utopia of a global humanism far from hate on the net, shitstorms, cyber-bullying, body shaming and vengeance porn.

Music Film Festival

1., Rathausplatz
Free admission
30 June - 2 September 2018
www.filmfestival-rathausplatz.at

Cinema under the Stars

1., Karlsplatz
Free admission
29 June - 21 July 2018
Films in German and in the original with German or English subtitles
kinountersternen.at

Cinema like never before

2., Augartenspitz/Obere Augartenstrasse 1e
28 June - 26 August 2018
Films in the original with German or English subtitles
www.kinowienochnie.at

Cinema on the Roof

7., Gürtel/Urban-Loritz-Platz 2a
Some films in German, others in the original version with subtitles
1 June - 6 September 2018
http://kinoamdach.at

Cinema in the Kammergarten

3rd district, Lower Belvedere, Rennweg 6
Admission with the museum ticket
Movies in original versions with German subtitles
1-22 August 2018
www.belvedere.at/Kino_im_Kammergarten

Arena Summer Cinema

3., Baumgasse 80
Some films in German, others in the original version with subtitles
16-22 August 2018
www.arena.co.at
https://de-de.facebook.com/Sommerkino.Arena.Wien/

Volxkino

at various locations
Start at Karmelitermarkt (2nd district)
Free admission
Some films in German, others in the original version with subtitles
8 June - 14 September 2018
www.volxkino.at