Duke of Burgundy – Sapphic Film Series

Join us at Villa Vida Café for the next Sapphic Film Series screening. On Thursday, 1 October 2026, we will show Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy from 19:00. Entry is free.

Stylish, intimate and unconventional, The Duke of Burgundy explores desire, power, intimacy and compromise through the relationship between two women. The film stars Sidse Babett Knudsen as Cynthia and Chiara D’Anna as Evelyn.

Date: Thursday, 1 October 2026Time: 19:00Location: Villa Vida Café, Linke Wienzeile 102, 1060 ViennaEntry: FreeFilm: The Duke of BurgundyDirector: Peter StricklandYear: 2014Runtime: Approx. 104 minutesLanguage: English

A Sapphic Film About Desire, Power and Intimacy

Cynthia and Evelyn are lovers whose relationship revolves around carefully constructed rituals of dominance and submission. However, their desires do not always align. As a result, maintaining their shared fantasy becomes increasingly complicated.

Rather than treating power as something simple or fixed, The Duke of Burgundy explores the negotiations, compromises and vulnerabilities within an intimate relationship. At the same time, the film creates a highly stylised world populated almost entirely by women.

Therefore, this is not a conventional romance. Instead, it is a sensual and sometimes strange exploration of what happens when fantasy, routine and everyday emotional needs begin to collide.