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Bringing best of Austrian cinema to London. Presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum . Next edition 13-16 March 2025.

04/06/2026

In the wild expanses, where bushbucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with excitement and pose before the animals they have bagged.

A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature. By presenting hunting as leisure, infamous Austrian director Ulrich Seidl confronts viewers with the banality of violence and raises unsettling questions about human attitudes toward nature, death, and domination.

🎥Safari by Ulrich Seidl
📍Austrian Cultural Forum London
📅Thursday 11 June, 7pm
🎟️Free entry
https://www.acflondon.org/events/cineclub-safari/

19/05/2026

CineClub presents a special season of films in conjunction with our summer exhibition "Touch Nature" exploring humanity's relationship with nature. "Tarzan The Ape Man" from 1932 is paired with "Safari" by Ulrich Seidl. The two films examine the colonial desire to dominate nature.

The first in the double bill is "Tarzan The Ape Man" starring the Austrian Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan. The combination of spectacular sets recreating the jungle in Hollywood and documentary footage highlight the contrast of staged vs real nature. The film is an example of the human desire to control and dominate nature.

Warning to viewers - the film reflects colonialist attitudes and portrays western characters as superior while depicting locals as expendable.

Tarzan The Ape Man
Wednesday 27 May, 7pm
https://www.acflondon.org/events/cineclub-tarzan-the-ape-man/

Safari by Ulrich Seidl
https://www.acflondon.org/events/cineclub-safari/
Thursday 11 June, 7pm

Screenings are free and open to all but booking is required.
Book your tickets via our website!

14/04/2026

On 26 April 1986, almost 40 years ago, reactor no.‍4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. The ACF's CineClub remembers this tragedy with the screening of Nikolaus Geyrhalter's award-winning documentary Pripyat on 23 April 2026.

Geyrhalter explores Chornobyl’s ‘zone of alienation’, a 30-km restricted zone erected around the nuclear power plant from where 116,000 people were evacuated. In striking black and white cinematography Geyrhalter surveys the wilderness, guided by the few farmers, guards, reactor controllers and ‘autonomous returnees’, who operate within this architecture of exclusion. Four protagonists tell their stories and provide a look at everyday life in “their“ zone.

Screening thursday 26 April, 7pm
Tickets are free! Book via https://www.acflondon.org/events/cineclub-pribyat/

01/04/2026

From Diagonale Film Festival in Graz to our own CineClub at the ACF London we are thrilled to screen White Snail on Thursday 9 April!

This German-Austrian romance was written and directed by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter (Space Dogs and Dreaming Dogs). The film is inspired by the real-life stories of non-professional actors and follows Masha, a Belarusian model persuing her dream job in China, as she falls in love with the painter Misha.

The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 78th Locarno Film Festival (2025) where it won the Special Jury Prize and the Pardo for Best Performance for Imbro and Senkov.

Thursday 9 April, 7pm
Tickets are free but booking required via ACF website
https://www.acflondon.org/events/cineclub-white-snail/

10/03/2026

CineClub's final film in the Court Life series captures the final days of the Sun King Louis XIV.

The much celebrated director Albert Serra (Birdsong, Pacifiction) continues his contemplative series of studies of legendary figures, both real and fictional (Don Quixote, the Magi, Casanova) with this elegant, mesmerising evocation of the last days of the Sun King. The legendary Jean-Pierre Léaud brings ineffable presence to the title role. Beautifully shot by Jonathan Ricquebourg, the film portrays the arcane system of court protocol while powerfully evoking the distance between the physical body of a decrepit mortal and the mythical being of the monarch as God. A film of stately beauty and philosophical depth.

Thursday 12 March, 7pm
ACF London
If the event is fully booked please email office@acflondon to join the waiting list.

12/02/2026

On the occasion of International Women's Day, the ACF London in partnership with End Gender Apartheid Campaign and Mosaic Afghanistan (Mosaic Global Foundation) is honoured to present a screening of the remarkable documentary The Last Ambassador, followed by a panel discussion centred around women's & girls' rights in Afghanistan and beyond.

We are thrilled to be joined by Ambassador Manizha Bakhtari, director of the film Natalie Halla as well as Joanna Lewis, Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Dr Marissa Quie who is an expert in Migration, Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Campridge.

The Last Ambassador is a poignant and powerful documentary following Afghanistan’s female ambassador in Vienna as she faces a life-altering decision in the wake of the Taliban’s return to power. Under increasingly difficult conditions, she becomes one of the most important international spokespersons for the women of Afghanistan, true to her motto ‘peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of justice’.

Wednesday 25 February, 7pm
austrian cultural forum london
Booking and info - https://www.acflondon.org/events/the-last-ambassador/
All tickets to this event are FREE

07/02/2026

A queen who lost three kingdoms. A wife who lost three husbands. A woman, who, like Marie Antoinette, lost her head. Join us for the second screening in our Court Life film season inspired by the current exhibition.

Based on Stefan Zweig's book "Maria Stewart" the second film in our series was adapted for the screen by Andrea Staka, Thomas Imbach and Eduard Habsburg. The film traces the first 25 years of Mary's life, using flashbacks inspired by the letters she never sent to the queen she never had the opportunity to meet.

Only a few tickets remain - if we are booked out please contact us via email to be added to the wait list. All our screenings are free and open to the public.

Mary Queen of Scots
Tuesday 10 February, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Tube: Knightsbridge

2013, 119 minutes, directed by Thomas Imbach

21/01/2026

On the occassion of the Victoria and Albert Museum's current exhibition 'Marie Antoinette Style', the first exhibition in the UK centred on the Austrian-born French Queen, the ACF London presents Court Life, a series of films inspired by the notorious queen and her iconic style.

We begin the season with 'Farewell my Queen' starring Diane Kruger in the role of Marie Antoinette and Léa Seydoux in the role of Sidonie Laborde.

Thursday 29 January, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Tickets are free but booking is essential
Find full programme on www.acflondon.org

Summer 1789, the French Revolution has commenced. Far from the turmoil, at Versailles, Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and their courtiers continue their carefree lives. But when the news of the storming of the Bastille reaches them, panic sets in and aristocrats and their servants desert the sinking ship. But not Sidonie Laborde, the Queen's reader. Entirely devoted to her mistress she stays on. What she doesn't know yet is that she will soon become a pawn in a much bigger game.
2012, 100 minutes, directed Benoit Jacquot

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