Every autumn, the Viennale screens its programme in the most beautiful cinemas in downtown Vienna. In addition to current feature films in all their forms, genres and narratives, the festival devotes itself to documentary cinema, international short films as well as experimental works and crossover projects.
Vermehrt Schönes! Matinée
Erste Bank makes it possible for visitors to enjoy a free movie at the Gartenbaukino. See the current programme for details.
Vermehrt Schönes! Lottery
Festival accreditations, cinema tickets for selected films or invitations to exclusive Viennale celebrations on our lotteries page.
ExtraVALUE for Erste Bank customers
Reduced tickets upon presentation of a debit card.
Erste Bank Film Award
The Erste Bank Film Award includes a residency in New York City, including a presentation of the award winner’s work at the Anthology Film Archives. The Erste Bank Film Award is realised in collaboration with the Viennale, Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Anthology Film Archives.
Erste Bank Film Award Laureate 2024
Klára Tasovská for I’m Not Everything I Want to Be
Erste Bank Film Award Laureate 2023
Martha Mechow for Losing Faith
Adrian Goiginger for Rickerl
ExtraVALUE Film Award Laureate 2022
Eve Heller for Singing in Oblivion
Jan Soldat for Blind Date
ExtraVALUE Film Award Laureate 2021
Sebastian Meise for Grosse Freiheit
ExtraVALUE Film Award Laureates 2020
Georg Tiller and Maéva Ranaïvojaona for ZAHO ZAY.
Pavel Cuzuioc for BITTE WARTEN – PLEASE HOLD THE LINE.
ExtraVALUE Film Award Laureates 2019
Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter for Space Dogs
Friedl vom Gröller for L'Avenir? De F.v.G.?
ExtraVALUE Film Award Laureates 2018
Wolfgang Fischer for Styx
Sara Fattahi for Chaos
ExtraVALUE Film Award Laureates 2017
Ruth Kaaserer for her documentary Gwendolyn
ExtraVALUE Film Award Laureates 2016
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel for Mister Universo
Katharina Copony for Moghen Paris – und sie ziehen mit
ExtraVALUE Film Award Laureates 2015
Jakob Brossmann for Lampedusa in Winter
Claudia Larcher for Self
ExtraVALUE Film Award Laureates 2014
Sudabeh Mortezai for Macondo
Gerhard Treml and Leo Calice for Eden’s Edge
ExtraVALUE Film Award Laureates 2013
Gustav Deutsch for Shirley – Visions of Reality
Juri Rechinsky for Sickfuckpeople
ExtraVALUE Film Award Laureates 2012
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel for Der Glanz des Tages (“The Shine of Day”)
Vermehrt Schönes! Short Film Award to Kurdwin Ayub
ExtraVALUE Film Award Laureates 2011
Gerald Igor Hauzenberger for Der Prozess (“The Trial”)
Vermehrt Schönes! Short Film Award to Kurdwin Ayub and Johann Lurf