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GERMAN FILMS & CO-PRODUCTIONS AT ROTTERDAM 2026

Festivals

55th International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 29 – February 8, 2026)

Tiger Competition
A FADING MAN (DER VERLORENE MANN) by Welf Reinhardt (Maverick Film)
SILENT FLOOD by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (UA/DE, Elemag Pictures)
A MESSY TRIBUTE TO MOTHERLY LOVE by Dan Geesin (NL/DE/BL, Leitwolf)

Big Screen Competition
2m2 by Volkan Üce (BE/DE/TR, 2pilots, filmfaust)
BUTTERFLY by Itone Somier Guttormsen (NO/SE/UK/DE, Nordfilm)

Tiger Short Competition
DISSONANCE by Jordan Strafer

Bright Future
WHY HASN'T EVERYTHING DISAPPEARED YET (WARUM IST NICHT SCHON ALLES VERSCHWUNDEN) by Stefan Koutzev (Academy of Media Arts Cologne)
LET THEM BE SEEN by Nolitha Refilwe Mkulisi (ZA/DE, Brown Flamingo Productions)

Harbour
HEART OF LIGHT by Cynthia Beatt (DE/FR, Black Forest Films)
SONG OF HOPE AND DESPAIR (LIEDER VON HOFFNUNG UND VERZWEIFLUNG) by Chto Delat (Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale), Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Institute of Global Reconstitution)
EARTH SONG by Erol Mintaş (FI/DE, Elemag Pictures)
A USEFUL GHOST by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke (TH/FR/SG/DE, Mayana Film)
CALLE MÁLAGA by Maryam Touzani (ES/FR/DE, One Two Films)

Limelight
SILENT FRIEND by Ildikó Enyedi (DE/FR/HU, Pandora Film)
SOUND OF FALLING by Mascha Schilinski (Studio Zentral)
GAVAGAI by Ulrich Köhler (DE/FR, Sutor Kolonko)
ROMERÍA by Carla Simón (ES/DE, Ventall Cinema)
TWO PROSECUTORS (ZWEI STAATSANWÄLTE) by Sergei Loznitsa (FR/DE/NL/LV/RO/LT, LOOKSfilm)
NO HIT WONDER by Florian Dietrich (PANTALEON Films, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Erfttal Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Koryphäen Film, Magic Media Production)
THE LITTLE SISTER by Hafsia Herzi (FR/DE, Katuh Studio)
RETURN TO SILENT HILL by Christophe Gans (UK/DE/RS, Maze Pictures, Supernix)

Cinema Regained
AMRUM by Fatih Akin (bombero International, Rialto Film, Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany)
HOLOFICTION by Michal Kosakowski (DE/AT, Kosakowski Films)
PETER KAMMERER/PASOLINI by Antonia Weiße
THE RIVER IS MURDEROUS (NORDSEE IST MORDSEE) by Hark Bohm (West Germany, Hamburger Kino-Kompanie Hark Bohm Filmproduktion, Maran Film)
FETISCH by Malga Kubiak (SE/PL/UA/FR/DE)
HABIBI HUSSEIN by Alex Bakri (PS/DE/SA/SE)

Focus: The Future Is Now
THREE WAYS OF RETURNING by Mania Akbari, Xiaolu Guo, Andrea Luka Zimmerman (CN/DE/IR/UK)
DUMP by Christina Friedrich (Madonnenwerk)
SPINACH AND SUGAR (ENKEL DER GESCHICHTE) by Laura Laabs (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
UNSERE NATUR by Marlene Denningmann (Kirberg Motors)

Displacement Film Fund / Specials
SENSE OF WATER by Mohammad Rasoulof (IR/DE, Run Way Pictures)
SUPER AFGHAN GYM by Shahrbanoo Sadat (Adomeit Film)
WHISPERS OF A BURNING SCENT by Mo Harawe (SO/AT/DE, Lost Frames Films)

Short & Mid-Length
JUGGERNAUT by Friederike Kersten, Michaela Metzger (NEOZOON)
LIL TWIN (PICCIN GEMELLONE) by Tibor Koehne
OVERWORK by Céline Berger
THE MUSCLES ARE TENSE by Mahshid Mahboubifar (DE/IR)
FORGET THE DIRECTOR, THIS IS EMMY'S CUT! by Marion Desmaret (UG/DE)
DETRITUS by Deborah S. Phillips, Zuzanna Marczak

Art Direction: Immersive Media
AFTER THE GAME by Jana Stallein (Fantastic Foe, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)

Art Directions: Sound//Vision
VJ EMMY: UGANDAN LIVE DUBBING by VJ Emmy (UG/DE)

Education
BACKFLIP by Nikita Diakur (DE/FR, Ugly Film)
PATCH by Gerd Gockell (Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion)
DER STACHEL IM PO by Elena Walf
T-REX by Julia Ocker
TIGER by Kariem Saleh