The Summer Cinemas in Vienna 2025: All Programs
From June to September 2025, film enthusiasts have the opportunity to choose from a variety of summer cinemas in Vienna. With a three-month program starting in June, "Kino am Dach" is one of the most extensive open-air cinemas in the city in terms of duration.
Theme of Love at Kino am Dach 2025 in Vienna
The Kino am Dach of the Vienna Main Library enters its 22nd season in 2025, once again combining film art with the lightness of summer. This year, the theme of love is at the center.
On June 1, 2025, the open-air cinema "Kino am Dach" opens with a preview of the Austrian documentary "Noch lange keine Lipizzaner" by Olga Kosanović. As a warm-up for the season, "Girls & Gods" by Verena Soltiz and Arash T. Riahi will be shown the evening before, also a preview. It ends on September 13.
VOLXkino: Vienna's Mobile Cinema in the Districts
The VOLXkino association has been committed to providing low-threshold and free access to film culture in public spaces for 35 years. The association's most well-known project is the mobile open-air cinema VOLXkino, which celebrates its season opening on June 5 at the Karmelitermarkt and then tours through the Vienna districts with an exciting selection of feature films as well as documentary, short, and animated films until September. For the first time this year, there will be a cooperation with the Viennale. On some dates, the GrätzlVIENNALE will go on tour with VOLXkino and bring selected films from the last festival edition.
Science Fiction in the Park Focuses on AI in 2025
"SciFi im Park" is a festival for science fiction films in the Bruno-Kreisky-Park in Vienna-Margareten. Since 2007, it has attracted residents, park visitors, and fans of sci-fi trash films with free admission. This year's theme is FATAL ERROR (?) - AI in fantastic film.
KARLSkino Brings Cinema Art to Vienna's Karlsplatz
The Karlsplatz in Vienna transforms into an open-air summer cinema from July 7 to 20. The program at KARLSkino 2025 consists of handpicked delicacies, cinematic novelties, and current debates – inspired by the art hub Karlsplatz with all its institutions and users. Karlsplatz is not only a venue here but also a protagonist and host.
Sunset Cinema - The WIENXTRA Cinemagic Open Air for Youth
Sunset Cinema is a free open-air cinema project by youth for youth. The project is a collaboration between WIENXTRA Cinemagic and VOLXkino and was created as part of the children's and youth million of the city of Vienna. The concept and program come from the youth themselves. On 12 dates, mainly cult films from the 90s and 2000s will be shown at four locations throughout Vienna.
Film Festival at Rathausplatz
On June 28, the Film Festival at Vienna's Rathausplatz starts and celebrates its 35th edition this year with a completely new appearance. The film program follows a weekly schedule for the first time: On Mondays, it focuses on classical music, with orchestral works and operas. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, various music styles are presented, including operetta, musical, ballet, jazz, and rock. From Thursday to Saturday, Rathausplatz is dedicated to great voices and pop concerts. Sundays focus on operas, in collaboration with the Vienna State Opera. The "State Opera Sundays" offer opera art under the open sky. Visitors can expect a best-of music history as well as great stage moments from past decades combined with current pop and rock highlights.
The Smaller Open-Air Cinemas 2025 in Vienna
Starting in June, the open-air cinema Ö3 Silent Cinema will once again tour throughout Austria. 60 different stations are on the program until mid-September, including three stops in Vienna.
This summer, the "dotdotdot" will pause as an open-air film festival while the Volkskundemuseum Wien undergoes general renovation. However, the open-air cinema plans to return to the Volkskundemuseum garden in 2026.
As every year, starting mid-July, the Museumsquartier invites you every Friday and Saturday to the Film Festival "frame[o]ut", where films mainly from local production are shown with free admission. And from August 21 to 23, it will be "Silent & Loud" again at Columbusplatz in Vienna-Favoriten, when historical silent films are shown with live music.
The program at the Open Air Cinema at Zukunftshof in 2025 ranges from feature films and exciting documentaries to silent films with musical live accompaniment - free admission. At the Arena Summer Cinema 2025, films like "Princess Mononoke", "The Terminator", or "Stop Making Sense" can be seen under the open sky for a week starting August 11.
In August 2025, Neugebäude Castle with its unique ambiance will become the atmospheric backdrop for film evenings under the stars: Cinephiles can look forward to selected film highlights every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at "Cinema at the Castle".
All Vienna Summer Cinemas 2025 at a Glance
The summer cinema programs for 2025 are partially yet to be published and will be continuously updated by us:
Cinema on the Roof (Main Library at Urban-Loritz-Platz, 1070 Vienna)
⤷ June 1 to September 13, 2025
Silent Cinema Open Air Cinema Tour (Strandbar Herrmann, Herrmannpark, 1030 Vienna)
⤷ June 2, July 7, and August 11, 2025
Volxkino (various locations)
⤷ June 5 to September 21, 2025
Science Fiction in the Park (Bruno-Kreisky Park, 1050 Vienna)
⤷ June 9 to 14, 2025
Sunset Cinema (multiple locations)
⤷ June 18 to August 30, 2025
Cinema Like Never Before (Garden of the Film Archive Austria, Obere Augartenstraße 1e, 1020 Vienna)
⤷ June 26 to August 24, 2025
Film Festival at Vienna City Hall Square
⤷ June 28 to August 31, 2025
KARLSkino at Vienna's Karlsplatz (Resselpark, 1040 Vienna)
⤷ 7th to 20th July 2025
frame[o]ut (MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna)
⤷ 18th July to 5th September 2025
dotdotdot (Volkskundemuseum, Laudongasse 15-19, 1080 Vienna)
⤷ paused 2025
Cinema in the Castle (Otmar-Brix-Gasse 1, 1110 Vienna)
⤷ 31st July to 30th August 2025
Arena Summer Cinema (Arena Vienna, Baumgasse 80, 1030 Vienna)
⤷ 11th to 15th August 2025
Silent & Loud (Helmut-Zilk-Park, 1100 Vienna)
⤷ 21st to 23rd August 2025
Open Air Cinema at Zukunftshof (Rosiwalgasse 41-43, 1100 Vienna)
⤷ 25th June to 3rd September 2025
We wish all visitors a lot of fun at the Vienna Summer Cinemas 2025!
(Red)
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