GERMAN FILMS & CO-PRODUCTIONS AT AMSTERDAM 2026
International Competition
DOWN THE RIVER by Ruslan Fedotov (Margarita Amineva-Jester for Voices Films, Kristina Shtubert for Voices Films)
WOMEN AND WAR by Elwira Niewiera (DE/PL/UA, Hans Robert Eisenhauer for Ventana Film)
HAZARA TOWN by Khadim Dai (BE/AU/DE, Anke Petersen for Joyti Films)
Envision Competition
YOU DON’T DIE TWO TIMES by Ager Oueslati (DZ/DE/NL, Thomas Kaske for Seera Films)
Frontlight
THEN I SAW A BEAUTIFUL HORSE by Altay Erlik (TR/DE, Spyros Patsouras)
Signed
GOING HOME by Kamal Aljafari (DE/PS, Kamal Aljafari Productions)
HOLY WOOD DUST by Victor Kossakovsky (IT/ES/DE, Frank Müller for Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion GmbH)
LETTERS FROM THE SILENCED COUNTRY by Andrei Kutsila (PL/LT/DE, Gregor Streiber for Inselfilm Produktion)
MASAO ADACHI TAKES A PASSPORT PHOTO by Kamal Aljafari (DE/FR/JP, Kamal Aljafari Productions)
Paradocs
THE B-SIDE OF THE LANDSCAPE by Philipp Hartmann (Philipp Hartmann for Flumenfilm)
THE RECCE by Daniel Mann (UK/DE, Daniel Mann)
TOGETHER by NEOZOON (NEOZOON)
Best of Fests
>1.5°C: PYROPOLITICS AND THE NEW WORLD by Lukas Marxt (DE/AT, Lukas Marxt for s u n³b°u°r°s t FILM)
GABIN by Maxence Voiseux (FR/DE/CH, Ulla Lehmann for AMA FILM GmbH)
TRANSITION by Peter Badel, Chris Wright (Heino Deckert for Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH)
TWO MOUNTAINS WEIGHING DOWN MY CHEST by Viv Li (DE/NL, Corso Film Produktion)
TOP 10
THE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA by Pirjo Honkasalo (FI/DK/DE/SE, 2004)
THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER by Werner Herzog (Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, 1974)
NATURE by Artavazd Pelechian (FR/AM/DE, ZKM - Center for Art and Media, 2020)
DocLab Competition for immersive non-fiction
BODY COUNT by Cris Bringas, Sönke Kirchhof (PH/DE, Jessica Zippel for INVR.SPACE)
RAJ’IN by Keren Manor, Faiz Abu Rmeleh (DE/PS, NowHere Media)
Retrospective
THE ECHO by Tatiana Huezo (MX/DE, ZDF/ARTE, 2023)
PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN by Tatiana Huezo (MX/DE/BR/QA, The Match factory, 2021)