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GERMAN FILMS & CO-PRODUCTIONS AT LONDON 2026

Festivals

69th BFI LONDON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (October 7-18, 2026)

Official Competition
IMPERIUM by Sergei Loznitsa (DE/IT/FR/LT, Essential Filmproduktion) 

Dare
EVERYTIME by Sandra Wollner (DE/AT, The Barricades) German Oscar Entry “Best International Feature Film”
I PLANT MY HAND IN THE GARDEN by Hoda Taheri und Boris Hadžija (DE/RS/US, German Film and Television Academy Berlin)
MY WIFE CRIES (MEINE FRAU WEINT) by Angela Schanelec (DE/FR, Blue Monticola) 
ROSE by Markus Schleinzer (DE/AT, Walker+Worm, ROW Pictures)

Displacement Film Fund
SENSE OF WATER by Mohammad Rasoulof (DE/IR, Run Way Pictures)
SUPER AFGHAN GYM by Shahrbanoo Sadat (Adomeit Film)

Expanded Reality
RED THE OCEAN AROUND U by Orion Facey and CROSSLUCID (LAS Art Foundation)

Experimenta: Compressed Distances
GOING HOME by Kamal Aljafari (DE/FR/PS, Kamal Aljafari Productions)
MASAO ADACHI TAKES A PASSPORT PHOTO by Kamal Aljafari (DE/JP/FR, Kamal Aljafari Productions)
Experimenta: Cadences of Resistance
THE MUSCLES ARE TENSE by Mahshid Mahboubifar (DE/IR)

Family
KOSCHKA by Bernd Sahling (Blinkerfilm)

Journey
NO GOOD MEN by Shahrbanoo Sadat (DE/FR/NO/DK/AF, Adomeit Film, Amerikafilm) 
Shorts – Life Drawing
DAUGHTERS OF THE LATE COLONEL by Elizabeth Hobbs (GB/DE, Fabian&Fred)

Thrill
THE DREAMED ADVENTURE (DAS GETRÄUMTE ABENTEUER) by Valeska Grisebach (DE/FR/BG/AT, Komplizen Film, New Matter Films)