All Munich Film Festival articles
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Reviews‘Block 10’ review: Harrowing Holocaust drama sheds light on Nazi sterilisation experiments
Marcus O. Rosenmuller’s unflinching feature premieres in Munich’s Spotlight strand
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NewsStreaming execs and producers debate likely German investment obligation in Munich
“We’re struggling to understand why this law is necessary at all,” said Amazon’s Inga Moser von Fllseck
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Reviews‘Echo Of Tomorrow’s War’ review: Germany’s past seems destined to repeat itself in timely family drama
Nicolas Ehret’s poignant feature debut bows in Munich’s New German Cinema strand
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FeaturesSeven rising German directors to watch at the Munich film festival
Their first fiction films are being showcased in the New German Cinema programme.
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Reviews‘The Miserable Mother’ review: German musical comedy is wry, sincere study of new motherhood
Susanne Heinrich’s follow-up to ‘Aren’t You Happy?’ plays Munich’s New German Cinema strand
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Reviews‘Identitti’ review: A university student wrestles with identity issues in uneven German drama
Amanda Babaei Vieira and rapper Sabrina Setlur star in Randa Chahoud’s adaptation of Mithu Sanyal’s 2021 betseller
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FeaturesMunich industry programme to discuss proposed streamer investment obligation
Additionally, the flagship CineCoPro Conference will focus on collaboration between Germany and the Nordic region.
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FeaturesMunich’s Julia Weigl and Christoph Gröner explain why they are making the festival a home for US indie cinema
They also discuss the festival’s role as a forum for political debate.
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NewsMunich film festival unveils 2026 lineup
Films by Pawel Pawlikowski, Valeska Grisebach and Skinner Myers among 48 playing in festival’s four competition strands.
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NewsCyrielle Raingou, Mikel Gurrea films among six-strong line up for Munich’s first work-in-progress showcase
Inaugural First Cut+ Munich event will present projects by filmmakers from Brazil, Cameroon, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Spain and Germany.
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NewsMunich film festival sets 28 world premieres for 2026 edition
Festival lines up new films by Randa Chahoud, Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu and Skinner Myers.
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NewsMunich film festival 2026 to focus on Nordic region for co-production conference
Conference will connect emerging producers from the five Nordic countries with their German counterparts.
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Features20 films to watch from the 2025 summer festivals
Includes titles from Locarno, Edinburgh, Annecy, Karlovy Vary, Transilvania, Munich and Fantasia.
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News‘Kika’, ‘Okamoto’ among Munich 2025 competition winners
Prizes also went to David Bim’s ’To The West, In Zapata’ and Cole Webley’s ’Omaha’.
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News‘Karla’, ‘Sechswochenamt’ dominate prizes at Munich’s German Cinema New Talent awards
Munich’s German Cinema New Talent awards showcases rising local talents.
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News‘A Poet’ producers win Munich’s €100,000 CineCoPro prize
The cash prize is presented by Germany’s FFF Bayern.
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NewsGerman production execs voice despair at slow progress of tax incentive reform
Several production service companies have gone bust as international production has moved outside of the country
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Reviews‘Brick’ review: A German couple hits the wall in satisfying Netflix thriller
Philip Koch’s sci-fi drama bows on the streamer following its Munich premiere
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Reviews‘I’m Not Stiller’ review: Paula Beer and Albrecht Schuch star in 1950s Zurich-set thriller
Stefan Haupt’s adaptation of Max Frisch’s novel about identity premieres in Munich
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Features‘Leonora In The Morning Light’ overcomes funding setback to premiere in Guadalajara and Munich
Indie Sales has international rights to the biopic about the English surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.