Weekly overview
17 Nov – 23 Nov
exground filmfest 2026
festivalausgabe 39
exground filmfest 2026
festivalausgabe 39
exground filmfest 2026
festivalausgabe 39
exground filmfest 2026
festivalausgabe 39
Who We Will Have Been
Filmmaker Erec Brehmer's world collapses when his longtime partner Angelina Zeidler dies in a car accident. Using personal videos, photos, voice messages, diary entries and music they shared, he creates ways of meeting and loving her again despite her absence. "We don't talk about the dead, even though that's the only thing we can still do" once someone is gone. And so, Who We Will Have Been is less a documentary and more a mode of communication with the deceased, where slow motion, reverse and soundbites taken in a totally different context suddenly give profound meaning and subtext. When Angi asks in a saved video "Am I still in time?" it resonates with deep, universal, spooky-action-at-a-distance significance. Do we still exist in time without a body and out of mind? Brehmer's powerfully emotional and absorbing meditation on living with loss recognizes that grief changes, but never really ends, like love.
- Documentary
exground filmfest 2026
festivalausgabe 39
IMDb 7.5 No Good Men
2021, Afghanistan right before the Taliban’s return. Naru, the only camerawoman at Kabul’s main TV station, struggles to keep custody of her three-year-old son after leaving her serial cheater husband. Convinced no good men exist in her country, Naru is caught off guard when Qodrat, Kabul TV’s most important journalist, gives her a career opportunity. As the two crisscross the city reporting on its last days of freedom, sparks fly and Naru starts to doubt herself: could there actually be a good man out there?
- Comedy
- Romance
- Drama
IMDb 6.7 The Woman One Longs For
125. Geburtstag Marlene Dietrich
After a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances, are determined to leave and be together.
- Drama
Prosecution
WIR in Wiesbaden
After surviving a racist attack, state prosecutor Seyo Kim takes her own case to court – confronting both the perpetrators and a justice system that turns a blind eye to right-wing extremism.
- Drama
IMDb 7.8 Niñxs
At the foot of Tepozteco, a sacred hill that governs the winds and fertility, lies the small town of Tepoztlán. Against this backdrop, fifteen-year-old Karla's body and mind are undergoing a revolution.
- Documentary
RT 100 Cutting Through Rocks
37-year-old Sara Shahverdi, a motorcycle riding, land owning, former midwife-turned-fierce citizen advocate and recent divorcée, just won a landslide local election in her remote Iranian village and everyone has an opinion about it.
- Documentary
CaligariOmeU
Nothing for you? How about a play, a museum visit, or a concert instead?