Streaming-Programme for English-speaking audiences

The Max Ophüls Film Festival is considered the most important newcomer film festival in the German-speaking world, giving voice to and presenting the works of new talents from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We are happy to offer a wide selection of competition films as well as other films from the official programme online with English subtitles.

The Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis is considered the most important newcomer film festival in the German-speaking world, giving voice to and presenting the works of new talents from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We are happy to offer a wide selection of competition films as well as other films from the official programme online with English subtitles.

The competition films can be watched online from the time their cinema premiere is scheduled until Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. – as long as the contingent lasts. All other films will be available right from the start of the festival (January 19, 2026, 7:30 pm) until February 1. Please note that the streaming offer is limited in terms of ticket numbers and territory (geo-blocking on Germany).

You can purchase your streaming tickets and watch the films right here on the festival website by following these steps:

Go to our streaming platform: https://ffmop.de/programm/streaming
You can choose between different options:
- Buy your single tickets for the different long film programmes on each site
- Feature Film Competition: Click on “Streaming-Tickets Wettbewerb Spielfilm”Documentary Film Competition: Click on “Streaming-Tickets Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm”
- Buy the “Goldener Fan-Pass” (Golden Fan Ticket) that gives you access to all films
- Buy the “Kurz- und Mittellanger Film-Pass” (Short- and Mid-length-Film Ticket) that gives you access to all Short and Mid-Length-Films
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The premiere times of the competition films are included in our timetable.
For any further queries, don’t hesitate to contact our team (Julia von Knebel: programm-kurz@ffmop.de).
We wish you great fun discovering emerging talents and their cinematic visions!
Please consider the age ratings of the individual films. Films without a mentioned age rating have not been officially examined yet and are thus recommended for audiences aged 18 and older.

Feature Film Competition

Streaming-Programme for English-speaking audiences

WIR SIND DA - ©Julius Feldmeier

MY FUTURE IS A FLOWER MEADOW (WIR SIND DA)

At a party, young reporter Anselm meets acting student Nana. Fascinated by her and her profession, he decides to make a documentary about her and her training in acting school. What he sees and films gets to him more than he expected, and his protagonists draw him into a whirlwind of emotional lows and toxic relationships that severely test his integrity as a journalist.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 6:00 pm

SPLITTER - © Jakob Dombrowski

SPLITTER

Young student Hanna works in the small taverna around the corner, where she hangs out with her friends at night. And Hanna is also Ida’s mother. In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, the two have a strong bond. But when Ida starts school, something changes. While Hanna searches for quick solutions to bring everyday life and her relationship with Ida back into balance, she realizes that her daughter is growing in her own way.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 9:15 pm

DER TOTE WINKEL DER WAHRNEHMUNG - ©Courtesy sixpackfilm

The Blind Spot of Perception (DER TOTE WINKEL DER WAHRNEHMUNG)

Vienna, 1996: a mini-DV tape with footage for a student documentary. Alina and Flora interrogate less than credible witnesses to the appearance of extraterrestrial reptilian beings. Yet soon they slip more and more into the narrative: lizards that conquer humanity through hybridization?

Streaming available from: Thursday, 9:00 pm

WOLVES - ©Dynamic Frame GmbH

WOLVES

Luana, 23, longs to escape her sheltered life. When her cousin Domi introduces her to his black metal band WLVS and its enigmatic new singer Wiktor, she is drawn in and joins them on tour. As she starts on a turbulent journey of discovery, Luana sees herself torn between her old life and the new, between Wiktor’s erratic behavior and rising tensions within the band.

Streaming available from: : Tuesday, 3:00 pm

Documentary Film Competition

ARCHIPELE DES HERZENS - ©Annika Gutsche

ARCHIPELAGOES OF THE HEART (ARCHIPELE DES HERZENS)

A filmmaker begins a film about climate research on a small island in southern Patagonia, she becomes a mother and then seeks to continue the project. The initial focus is perturbed by the mere production circumstances, it forfeits clarity just to regain a clearer vision of what is, was and could be. „Archipelagoes of the Heart“ is a thoroughly personal film that dares to flatline its own agenda, to cave in and move on

Streaming available from: : Tuesday, 3:00 pm

AUCH WENN NARBEN BLEIBEN - ©Helios Sustainable Films

DESPITE THE SCARS - AUCH WENN NARBEN BLEIBEN

In her quest to recover from a brutal gang rape, Thea turns to dance as a means of healing her emotional and physical trauma. As she embraces a new relationship and the joy of motherhood with the birth of her son, Thea is faced with the challenging question of whether true healing is ever attainable.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 4:30 pm

IM LICHT DER SANDBANK - ©ATARA FILM

IN THE LIGHTS OF THE SANDS (IM LICHT DER SANDBANK)

As a bird warden, Kilian spends seven months alone on a barrier island named Scharhörn. His tasks are simple: monitoring wildlife and collecting flotsam. The abundant birdlife, extreme weather and ever-changing landscape are conveyed through imagery and an unobtrusive soundtrack of wind, rain and birdsong. Contact with others is rare, but the intrusion of the outside world is all the more striking. The film’s melancholic atmosphere echoes both solitude and a sense that this fragile sanctuary is deeply at risk. Beyond its precise observations, an essay on climate change, militarisation, and the value of biodiversity quietly emerges.

Streaming available from:Tuesday, 8:30 pm

LES CHASSERESSES - ©Box Productions

LES CHASSERESSES

Fanny, Marie-Dominique, Céline, and Marie hunt for subsistence in the mountains of Valais. Their relationship with nature is intense, their position within the predominantly male hunting community isolated. Caught between the desire for recognition and the radical rejection of prevailing sexism, which path should they take? Four women in search of autonomy and a freedom that blossoms in spring above the villages in the Swiss mountains.

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 6:00 pm

LISA - ©Petit à Petit Production

LISA

My mother ended her life on August 10, 2020. Drawing on what I gather from her drawers, friends and family, and my memories, I fill the void she left, using all the means film has to offer. It is a fragmented journey, assembled with various eras to understand the world that became foreign to her.

Streaming available from: Thursday, 3:30 pm

PILIJE - ©Courtesy sixpackfilm

PILIJE

The documentary film Pilije explores bilingual identity in a border region. The film takes us to the director’s home area — a small town on Austria’s southern border in Carinthia, where guns have been manufactured for centuries. In many workshops, filing and polishing are still carried out today to produce luxury hunting weapons for the global market. Against the economic backdrop of the region’s long-standing gunsmithing tradition, life stories unfold that reveal the dark chapters of the Slovene ethnic minority in this area.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 9:00 pm

TERRE ROUGE - ©JUCAM CNA

TERRE ROUGE-TOPOGRAPHY OF THE POET (TERRE ROUGE - TOPOGRAPHIE DU POÈTE)

Gaston, an ageing poet and filmmaker, lives on the rubble of his local steel and mining industry. This territory of barely 2 square kilometers, which he has lived in and documented since birth, is the source of all his poetic inspiration.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 8:45 pm

Mid-Length Film Competition

PREISWERTE LÖSUNGEN FÜR EIN BESSERES LEBEN - © Alex Reinberg/Leni Gruber/Filmakademie Wien

AFFORDABLE SOLUTIONS FOR A BETTER LIFE (PREISWERTE LÖSUNGEN FÜR EIN BESSERES LEBEN)

A new home, a promotion, a loving partner. Anna has everything she could wish for, and yet, the gradual inevitability of things begins to create a pressure within her that she can no longer bear. But where does Anna escape to when her life seems pretty much complete? Into housing complexes that swallow their residents like a beehive? Into labyrinthine furniture stores filled with endless room displays? Or into the life of a missing woman who looks just like her and works at an IKEA store?

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 9:00 pm

ARME HUNDE - © Benedikt Pawils

ARME HUNDE

A petty criminal couple with relationship problems rob a lonely man in his house. They find pleasure in his bourgeois lifestyle and decide to stay overnight – until they realise that their hostage would have taken his own life if they hadn't broken in. Suddenly, they find themselves facing each other, each desiring what breaks the other.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 3:00 pm

M. - © Adrian Witzel

M.

As an adult, M. returns to her home, a place steeped in generations of family history, in search of memories of her deceased mother. She encounters reminders of her childhood, of loss and letting go, and of the cruelty of growing up. M.’s child self is mired in conflict, intermingling fact and fiction, and the past with the present and future. Out of fear of losing someone M. creates a new person.

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 9:00 pm

MADONNAS - © Pola Kapuste

MADONNAS

Taranto Vecchia is an island in southern Italy where global and personal structures converge as if under a magnifying glass. In MADONNAS, we discover it through the eyes of 13-year-old Marta. She is growing up with her spiritual grandparents and her devout mother. When her free-spirited aunt comes to visit, new dimensions open up for Marta. Her innocent view of the world forces us to recognize how cruel the injustices are to which we have become so accustomed.

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 5:00 pm

BLEIFREI - © Courtesy/Sixpackfilm

UNLEADED 95 (BLEIFREI 95)

Three friends in their mid-twenties reunite at the place of their youth, where they must renegotiate their friendship between gas station cruising, motorways, and the world’s oldest lesbian bar.

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 5:00 pm

Short Film Competition

A. WILL RAUS - © Lidija Kumpas

A. WANTS OUT (A. WILL RAUS (ÜBER NEUTRALITÄT))

A., a young man from Vienna, is preparing to join the military. He says goodbye to his studies, his family, his job, his girlfriend. He shaves his head. The people around him react with incomprehension and tell stories about the army and war, sharing their ideas and opinions on the matter.

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 2:00 pm

CONSAGRATIÓN - © Vanessa Monti

CONSECRATION (CONSAGRACIÓN)

In the stillness of a German winter, a Colombian exile unearths a ritual cassette that blurs her present with the haunted landscapes of Bogotá — a sensory film-poem about longing, guilt and healing.

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 2:00 pm

CLOSED FOR THE VIRUS BREAK - © Laura Ettel & Franz Quitt

CLOSED FOR THE VIRUS BREAK

March 2020: João has no one to spend the lockdown with. Alone in his one-room apartment, an HIV-positive man gazes down at the empty streets of Vienna as his longing for connection clashes with his sense of responsibility. Stigma, sex, and solitude on 16mm.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 6:00 pm

DIE GEMEINSAMEN KLEINIGKEITEN - © Caroline Liebhart

DIE GEMEINEN KLEINIGKEITEN

In the world of sink attachments and Weight Watchers meetings, Josef Hermann feels weighed down by his own weight. An encounter with rapper Monobrother and a shared goal with his best friend ultimately help Josef stand up for himself.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 6:00 pm

DREIECK - © Saladin Dellers

DREIECK

A love triangle spirals out of balance when two men fight for narrative dominance — and a toothbrush. A satirical comedy about polyamory, masculinity, and the need to control one’s own story.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 9:15 pm

EIN ARM IST EIN ARM IST EIN ARM - © Selma von Polheim Gravesen

EIN ARM IST EIN ARM IST EIN ARM

Based on true events, Aaron, a young African-American, falls in love with Larissa, a German white woman. But as soon as she tells him that she is pregnant, things begin to fall apart and Aaron has to face his past.

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 4:00 pm

EVERY TIME I LOOK AT YOU - © HFF

EVERY TIME I LOOK AT YOU

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 4:00 pm

FLACHDACH - © Emil Basting

FLACHDACH

Manuel is born into a world that has nothing to offer him but rules and right angles. A world in which the neighbours mow their lawns, wash their cars, and his parents can teach him nothing more than how to sit properly at the table. His self-expression is washed away with the neighbour's cleaning water. Manuel sees only one way out: escaping to a ‘different’ place. Whether it is better there remains to be seen.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 9:15 pm

GRABEN - © Tim Semrau

GRABEN

Martin embarks on an inner and outer search for familiarity and connection. He moves between searching and fleeing in a hermetically sealed world. Will he manage to establish a connection? And if not, is there any escape at all?

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 2:00 pm

HANTELN FÜR HETEN - © Esma Günesoglu/HFF München

HANTELN FÜR HETEN

19-year-old Fabi is excited: she is going to a queer FINTA gym for the first time. Struggling with side stitches and uncertainty, the young lesbian battles through the workout – hoping to fit in. But some people are suspicious of Fabi, thinking she's straight. As she starts to open up, she gradually finds her place in a community that challenges her – and accepts her at the same time.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 3:00 pm

WIE WELSE JAGEN - © Lena Krenz

HOW CATFISH HUNT (WIE WELSE JAGEN)

In a harbour, two men of different ages and backgrounds circle each other like catfish in the darkness of the water – driven by instinct and desire.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 9:15 pm

LEISE GEHST DU VOR MIR HER - © Clara Marnette

IN YOUR QUIET STEPS (LEISE GEHST DU VOR MIR HER)

A father visits his son: in a sleepless city night, they circle around each other – two adults trying to find themselves beyond old roles.

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 4:00 pm

JOY - © Felix Schuster

JOY

Aron’s 30th birthday party takes a turn when Joy steps up to the mic and exposes a buried secret.

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 2:00 pm

LIQUOR - © Yi-Chen Huang

LIQUOR

The mother suffers from an illness that threatens to drown her memories and emotions. She pleads with her daughter for help. Using her umbilical cord, she fashions a giant straw, with which the daughter attempts to suck excess water from her mother's head through her eye, hoping to save her. In the process, the daughter herself risks drowning.

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 4:00 pm

SINKFLUG - © Daryna Snizhko

LOSS OF ALTITUDE (SINKFLUG)

One last morning, two passports and the silence in between. But how do you say goodbye to a place where you were never welcome?

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 4:00 pm

LIEBESBESUCH - © Simon Veroneg

LOVE VISIT (LIEBESBESUCH)

Natalie, a young waitress, eagerly prepares for her first meeting with Marc, her boyfriend from an online relationship. On her way there, she is confronted with tension, fears and assaults. When she finally meets Marc, expectations and reality collide, closeness and strangeness. What remains is the fragile intimacy of their first encounter.

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 4:00 pm

MARY - © Nevin George

MARY

Mary, a young Indian immigrant nurse working in a hospital in Switzerland, gets invited to a Christmas party by a doctor. There, she meets the doctor's brother, Edi. Mary makes a deliberate choice to open herself up to the possibility of falling in love, despite the traditional expectations that have previously held her back.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 3:00 pm

KEINE STADT, KEIN DORF - © Ekaterina Reinbold

NEITHER CITY NOR VILLAGE (KEINE STADT, KEIN DORF)

Zhenya gathers with her family at a community hall to celebrate her elderly grandfather’s birthday. She hopes to use the occasion to reconnect with her mother, who—like always—is buried in work, this time in the preparations for the celebration. When the manager of the community hall shows up unexpectedly, the family is confronted in an uncomfortable way with their origins. Suppressed memories resurface and turn into intimate monologues about the life they left behind in Kazakhstan.

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 4:00 pm

STILL FEBRUARY - © Anna Ryzhkova

STILL FEBRUARY

A wolf-human figure awakens in a world threatened by fire and decay. She senses that everything around her is disappearing, without understanding why—almost blind and unable to see the obvious. But then she realizes the truth: huge, destructive feet are trampling through the world, setting everything on fire, plunging both the past and the future into darkness. In the end, she has only one option left: to save herself.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 6:00 pm

TAUT - © Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

TAUT

Stringo is ripped from his peaceful home by a terrifying beast. He survives the battle, but it leaves him too altered to be accepted by his own kind.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 3:00 pm

THE GIRL IS TAKEN BY ALIENS - © Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

THE GIRL IS TAKEN BY ALIENS

Like every Chinese mom warns you: Never go out on the night of the Ghost Festival. 18-year-old Ming feels like the only weirdo in the small Germantown. On this midsummer night, after a disastrous party, she stumbles upon strange beings... In this surreal moment, she realizes who she truly is.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 3:00 pm

VOM ENDE DER MENSCHHEIT - © König Ahrens Filmproduktionen

VOM ENDE DER MENSCHHEIT

A reception committee waits anxiously for an extraterrestrial visit that hardly anyone seems to know anything about. When the UFO finally lands, the proud humankind expects something that is ‘far worse than death.’

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 3:00 pm

WATCHLIST

INTERSECTION - © Supa Stories GmbH

INTERSECTION - ALLES IST POLITISCH

INTERSECTION is a documentary film accompanied by an interactive mobile game that makes structural discrimination tangible—especially for those who don’t experience it themselves. In the game, players move through a city as a randomly assigned character. Depending on shape, colour or pattern, the world of INTERSECTION treats you differently—sometimes with privilege, sometimes with disadvantage. It becomes clear: this game isn’t fair. The film follows six people who advocate for a more just world in their work—and who experience discrimination themselves. They show how the game reflects real life, and what it truly means to face sexism, racism, trans- and queerphobia, or ableism—and how these forms of discrimination intersect. Together, they sit at one table and ask: How can we—as the so-called progressive, feminist, woke bubble—build unity and strength in a time when far-right politics are rising, rights are being stripped from marginalized communities, and many activists feel divided and burnt out? INTERSECTION combines film and interaction: the game is available for download, allowing viewers to immerse themselves in its world. This playful approach offers fresh ways to engage with entrenched debates on inequality and calls for more empathy in a divided society.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

DER TOTALE TRAUM - © Constantin Campean

THE TOTAL DREAM (DER TOTALE TRAUM)

The last living human couple, Adam and Eve, fight in vain to save humanity in a world populated by humanoids. While pregnant, Eve is doubtful. Adam enters into a risky pact with the machine to save his family.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

EL MUNDO AL REVÉS - © SABOTAGEKOLLEKTIV

THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN (EL MUNDO AL REVÉS)

In a small village in Argentina, mysterious encounters intertwine with everyday life.

Streaming available from: Thursday, 8:30 pm

DISKURZE

DAGGI - © Daniel Hopp/Ania Maria Wanda

DAGGI

Daniel Hopp and his neighbour Daggi, a former private detective from East Berlin, investigate the death of his previous tenant. Blending documentary research, staged scenes, and reenactment, a multilayered search unfolds – tracing identity, memory, and an unspeakable secret.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 3:00 pm

DIE TOTEN VOM PREDIGERSTUHL - ©

DIE TOTEN VOM PREDIGERSTUHL

On 15 July 1934, an illegal socialist gathering was held in the Vienna Woods to commemorate those who died in the Palace of Justice Fire of 1927. When the fascist police discovered the gathering, they started shooting and killed two young men. Ninety years later, the traces of this event have been blurred. The film searches for traces of the past using texts from official sources, protocols and witness statements.

Streaming available from: Wednesday, 3:00 pm

AUS DER FERNE - © Yannick Hasse

FROM A DISTANCE (AUS DER FERNE)

Anna, who was born in Germany, has a distant relationship with her father Hung and his country of birth, Vietnam. When she finds out through a documentary that he was affected by racist attacks in 1992, she is suddenly confronted with her father's culture and history.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

GUOCHANG - © Nana Xu

GUOCHANG (果场)

"Fruit Farm" explores the evolving identity of Nana's hometown in China, from its complex past to its present. Through personal stories, the film reveals how echoes of history continue to shape the present.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

RÜCKBLICKEND BETRACHTET - © Daniel Asadi Faezi

IN RETROSPECT (RÜCKBLICKEND BETRACHTET)

Immigrant workers built a shopping mall for the Munich Olympics 1972. In 2016 this same place becomes the site of a racist shooting. „And now this hate.“, concludes a woman in a Sohrab Shahid Saless’ film „Addressee Unknown“ (1983).

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

OCCHIO - © Giulia Falciani

OCCHIO

An important sensory organ, the eye, is damaged. The exhausting healing process takes us on an inner journey full of pain, fragility and mental unrest, in which even superstition and witchcraft seem to have an influence on recovery.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

PERSEIDAS - © Sixpackfilm

PERSEIDAS

It’s a balmy summer evening; we hear insects chirping and girls’ laughter. Yet the Perseids of the title remain on the periphery; the night-time forest is not lit up by comets, but instead by torches and the glow of cigarettes. We don’t see much, nevertheless, our senses are working overtime even so. From the darkness – with the aid of music – director Natalia del Mar Kašik ignites a sense of momentum and a truly joyful mood of affable solidarity somewhere on the border between innocence and adulthood, both offering a hint of adventure in the shadow of the night.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

STUPOR - © Leonie Kellein

STUPOR

In the short film Stupor a traumatizing attack —recounted by a voice off-screen— is anticipated and thereby narrowly averted. The film is set in a dark, eerie ice rink where several people come into view via slow-motion camera movements. Video and audio seem to run on separate tracks.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

SWANLAKE (SCHWANENSEE)

When we are ill, we often wish for only one thing: to finally be healthy again. The filmmaker spots a swan in a duck pond and, with a diagnosis of long Covid, dreams of the seemingly distant realm of the healthy. An essayistic film about enchanted sick people and birds who dream of other worlds.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

THE IN-THE-HEAD FILM

A rapidly associative animated film about the noise inside a neurodivergent mind: too many ideas, too little rest. The film explores the inner chaos of a filmmaker who wants everything at once – and almost breaks under it.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

UNSERE NATUR

A bush dances through an empty school, teenagers gather in a circle of chairs. The school bell rings and a get-to-know game begins. In cooperation with adolescents from Hamburg, the film allows us to witness a sex education workshop.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

SaarLorLux

BACKSTAGE

A theater production becomes a dangerous dance of power and attraction when a young actor discovers that the demanding director who holds his career in her hands may also be the one who will tear him apart, both on and off the stage.

Streaming available from: Thursday, 8:30 pm

MAJA

A performative short film about a deeply impacting experience: childbirth. Although women have been giving birth for millennia, this incomparable event rarely finds its way into the public eye, let alone being talked about in terms of the pain, the fears, the powerlessness. Every birth is different and can leave both beautiful and traumatic traces. MAIA wants to give this experience a voice.

Streaming available from: Thursday, 8:30 pm

ONKRAUT

Chris is at a turning point in her life. The morning after her wild 30th birthday party, she wakes up next to an unexpected accomplice: Pablo, a talking monstera plant. How on earth did this happen?

Streaming available from: Friday, 9:30 pm

PETRICHOR

Introverted Noah reluctantly spends his summer holidays with his family in the French countryside. One day, he meets the siblings Julie and Léo at a lake. Despite the language barrier, a relationship develops between him and Julie that oscillates between attraction and repulsion, causing Noah to reflect on his sexual orientation.

Streaming available from: Thursday, 8:30 pm

Sultan - It's Drag Habibi - Wintergarten Film GbR

SULTAN - IT´S DRAG HABIBI

Sultan is building a new world for himself in Saarbrücken. Here he can develop in a way he never could in his home country of Oman. Since fleeing to Germany, he has been mixing up Saarland's nightlife as a drag queen. But his past keeps catching up with him. Between new beginnings and inner conflict, Sultan tells of his origins, identity and the attempt to really arrive.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

VÉIER MÉINT

Daniel, a 20-year-old Luxembourgish soldier, is about to embark on a four-month training mission. For the past few months, he's been spending a lot of time with Sabrina, a German girl from Trier. Feelings have developed on both sides. Four days before his departure, he finally introduces her to his comrades during a club visit. But Leo, a fellow soldier and friend knows her already and has something very intimate to reveal about her which Daniel initially struggles to accept.

Streaming available from: Friday, 9:30 pm

MOP-Series

DAEMONICON

Daemonicon follows Lutzia, a demonology scholar, and Götz, a former knight, as they investigate strange curses and battle demons. With each solved curse, they uncover secrets surrounding a vast conspiracy of religion and power.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

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DIE ABSPERRFRAU -TRAUMJOB FILMBRANCHE

Nici, 37, chronically unemployed and broke, lands her first-ever gig as a set runner thanks to her uncle Olaf, 67. All she has to do is keep pedestrians from walking into the shot — but naturally, everything spirals into chaos. The short film serves as the launch of a series in which the job center, friends, or family keep thrusting Nici into a string of short-term, dead-end jobs.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

HOW DID I GET HERE WITH MAITANE MIDBY

This six-part artist portrait introduces documentary filmmaker Maitane Midby. As the subject of this series, the filmmaker leaves her usual observing role and becomes the observed. Each episode presents one of her films and leaves open what is true in the end – as documentary and staged elements intertwine.;

Streaming available from: Tuesday, 6:00 pm

THE FOLKS - PILOT

Alex, a talented but unsuccessful indie folk musician, suddenly gets the chance to sign a record deal. To do so, he must reunite his former band. But an old conflict overshadows the reunion – and shows that some wounds do not heal so easily.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

Children and youth section

IM KREIS

Mia and Karo spin on the roundabout in the park. What animal would each classmate be? It’s one of their favorite games. Their days revolve around small battles and pranks — note wars, Beyblade duels, stolen pens. Karo loves teasing others, especially Miriam, who has no friends in school. But sometimes, she goes too far. When Mia secretly turns one of her pranks around and gets caught, Karo suddenly freezes her out. Mia is left on her own with no one to turn to.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

KAULQUAPPE

On a forest home trip with her classmates, ten year old Marlene is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body. She feels ashamed of her boobs growing. Therefore, she avoids to shower with the other girls and hides her evolving body under large sweatshirts. When the other kids start making fun of an oddly developed tadpole at the forest home museum, Marlene is weirdly identifying with it and decides to set it free.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

MÛ

A devastating drought has turned the world into a desert. The once life-giving, sacred water source has dried up. In this desperate situation, a child sets out with his otter-like companion in search of the last drops of water to revive the source. Their journey takes them to the edges of their world and up to the highest mountain peak. But the real solution is not where they expect it to be.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

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VOGEL, FLIEG!

After the Taliban came to power, 13-year-old Adina fled Afghanistan with her father and brother, with whom she now lives in Germany under precarious circumstances. Adina seeks solace in dance despite of her father's strict rules against it. But her father has his own secret.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

Guest program Bundesfestival junger Film

NEXT DOOR (NEBENAN)

The door to the right is open! Tom and his partner Marcel have finally moved into their first apartment together. But at night Tom hears strange noises from next door - and discovers that there is a door to the neighbor's apartment which can't be locked, no matter what they try. While Tom's fear of what lurks behind it grows, Marcel tries everything to play down the situation. Until Their relationship threatens to fail about the question, how to deal with the horror on the right. A satirical horror movie about the fear of right wing extremism.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

Guest program Fantasy Filmfest

KYNOKEPHALE

Waking up, chained, being fed, falling asleep. Day in, day out. opressor versus opressed. fear versus uprising. solidarity or obedience. Animals, pets and humans. Where are we drawing the line between good or bad, right or wrong?

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

MULCHBERG

Mr Mulchberg seems ordinary, but in the dark his secret is revealed. He inconspicuously buys tools in a brightly lit hardware store, and back in his remote house, an eerie world unfolds. Surrounded by stuffed animals, he prepares a meal in ghostly silence, while news reports about missing persons break the quiet.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm

ROTES WASSER

A student’s new apartment hides a nightmarish secret – behind a glittering, color-shifting disco shower head.

Streaming available from: Monday, 7:30 pm