Below you can find current site-updates as a simple and informal listing – they are added as soon as they were implemented into the website – in realtime:
March 2026:
- Mar 31: Preview Images for Social Media Image Previews added as featured pics for each page and sub page
- Mar 31: Corrected all photo captions and titles and made them SEO proofed
- Mar 31: Added WAFF 2026 Archive Overview-page to top menu and footer
- Mar 31: Further bug fixing, closed the posts comments-sections
- Mar 31: Added Blog post “WAFF 2027 2nd Ed. TBA ASAP”, added it as an very early pre-announcement & summarizing interim retrospective to the top and footer menues too, as well as a “read more” option on the front-landing page artwork.
- Mar 31: Added Blog post for IG Vid Snaps “Shot The Voice Of Freedom”
- Mar 30: Complete revamp of the site for the post-WAFF 2026 – pre-WAFF 2027 era. WAFF 2026 was properly archived and spaces for reception and WAFF 2027 preview announcements created via a completely revamped Blog & much more, while also giving the WAFF Debut 2026 the space it deserves on this dynamic film festival website as premiere-archive item.
- Mar 29: Further finetuned scaling, spellings & site-sections, as well as menues (header, footer, blog-posts sidemenu)
- Mar 29: Revamped Header & Footer Menu, added Blog Post-items to each for user-friendliness & convenience.
- Mar 29: Updated Tickets-page and the corresponding info during the festival days – for Festival Final – Day 5
- Mar 29: Revamped site-sections: Privacy Policy, Site-Updates, Blog
- Mar 29: Revamped Landing Page for Festival Final – Day 5
- Mar 28: Further spell checks & corrections site-wide, further adjusted site-grid for mobile devices
- Mar 28: Updated Privacy Policy concerning collected email addresses and the Worpress Blog Commenting function on site
- Mar 28: Updated Tickets-infos & direct links for online tickets purchases for the rest festival-days
- Mar 27: Revamped Blog section
- Mar 27: Added Blog entry for Festival Day 2
- Mar 26: Added blog entry – Frauen*solidaritaet Wien joins our open discussion / WAFF Special Program on Sunday, Mar 29 – Lecture&Dialogue
- Mar 26: Updated Tickets-page, WAFF Festival Passes are not available anymore.
- Mar 26: Updated the Lecture&Dialogue page w/ Frauen*Solidarität Wien as 3rd speaker at the open panel
- Mar 26: Activated site-blog with photos of the Festival’s opening day by Mahdi Rahmati.
- Mar 26: Removed artist talks that can’t be held due to problems outside the festival’s reach (cancelled plane schedules, no internet for video conferences)
- Mar 23: Added Falter – Empfehlungen & Antirassismus Tage – Announcement in Footer Links
- Mar 23: Synchronized IG handle
- Mar 20: Added Links-Section @ Footer
- Mar 16: Added Program PDF Print Version as Download site-wide.
- Mar 15: Added 16:9 Format of the Festival Trailer and removed the “Reel / Portrait” Format.
- Mar 14: Added Festival Trailer to Landing Page and Mission Statement Page.
- Mar 08: Added WAFF Panel Discussion & Lectures for Saturday March 28, Sunday March 29
- Mar 03: Further corrections & spell checks, as well as structural fixes at the Tickets-page
- Mar 03: Added Artist Talks info to the individual WAFF-Screenings
- Mar 03: Revamped Tickets-site corresponding to METRO / Filmarchiv Austria online ticketing service
- Mar 03: Cross-Linked all METRO Online Tickets / Sub-sites with online-ticketing service via METRO / Filmarchiv Austria with our website
- Mar 03: Further corrections, performance improvements and spell-checks.
- Mar 03: Added tickets-page
- Mar 01: Added correct and english vector logo of the City of Vienna – Cultural Affairs
- Mar 01: Added Final Festival Logo
Febuary 2026:
- Feb 28: Added correct headings for photos sections of the METRO – Location sub-site
- Feb 28: Further spellings checked / corrections
- Feb 28: Interim Final Logo implemented everywhere
- Feb 28: Tickets-infos updated site-wide
- Feb 28: Added / exchanged old interim logo with interim final logo
- Feb 27: Added 2 additional Cinema Photos of the Historic Hall and Cinema Salon – courtesy of Filmarchiv Austria, with correct credits
- Feb 27: Added METRO Kinokulturhaus Accessibility Options for their two cinema halls – that will be the actual venue cinemas of the festival, as well as generell Accessibility Options for guests in wheelchairs (toilet, which seats / rows METRO Historic Hall, METRO Cinema Salon). This section has been added under “Location”.
- Feb 27: Added support to play the trailers on Apple Swatches
- Feb 27: Corrected Metro to METRO
- Feb 27: Added Cookies Notice EUGDPR compatible at Landing Page / Root Domain URL
- Feb 27: Fixed Festival subtitle to “WAFF Debut 2026”
- Feb 27: Performance Tweaks – selfhosted trailers
- Feb 27: Added site updates page
- Feb 27: Added Google Kit WP Analytics
- Feb 27: Further tweaks for iOS & Android systems
- Feb 27: Another revamp of the Interim Logo – simplified, footer menu complete revamp & fix for iPads (portrait format)
- Feb 27: Version 1.0 is now live
- Feb 26: Further revamped Interim Logo, spell checks, interim tickets information added
- Feb 25: Interim Logo added, footer menu corrected
- Feb 24: Version 0.9 went live
Future Roadmap Post-WAFF Debut Festival 2026:
waffvienna.com is intended to be a highly dynamic website with regular updates – synchronized within/during and especially also after the duration & framework of the WAFF Debut Festival 2026. We also plan to do regular coverage & commentaries here at our website in form of future previews for further upcoming events by Community Koinon within WAFF-context & more (f.e. WAFF 2027 news), texts, impulses, blog posts & articles – accompanied with dedicated original multimedia-content (photos, videos, podcasts, art).
Bookmark us & stay tuned. WAFF is going to announce its second edition of the festival for 2027 as soon as possible, meanwhile we will constantly update the website with blog posts, original content & more.
Our full festival imprint & contact information can be found here: