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Meine Frau weint

My Wife Cries
Competition 2026
© Blue Monticola Film
An ordinary workday on a building site. Forty-year-old crane operator Thomas receives a call from his wife, Carla: he has to pick her up from the hospital. Once there, he finds her crying and discovers that she has had a car crash. Carla tells him about her dance partner David, with whom she was going to view a house in the country and who has died in the accident. She tries to tell her husband everything openly and honestly, but Thomas increasingly withdraws into himself. They simply do not understand each other. A film about the challenge that is life and about the search for a common language.

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by Angela Schanelec (Director, Screenplay)
with Vladimir Vulević, Agathe Bonitzer, Birte Schnöink, Pauline Rebmann, Ben Carter, Thorbjörn Björnsson, Clara Gostynski, Laure-Lucile Simon Germany / France 2026 German 93' Colour World premiere

With

  • Vladimir Vulević (Thomas)
  • Agathe Bonitzer (Carla)
  • Birte Schnöink (Andrée)
  • Pauline Rebmann (Karen)
  • Ben Carter (Laszlo)
  • Thorbjörn Björnsson (Esteban)
  • Clara Gostynski (Claudia)
  • Laure-Lucile Simon (Sophie)

Crew

Director Angela Schanelec
Screenplay Angela Schanelec
Cinematography Marius Panduru RSC
Editing Angela Schanelec
Sound Design Rainer Gerlach, Matthias Lempert
Production Design Sylvester Koziolek
Costumes Anette Guther
Make-Up Monika Münnich, Mina Ghoraishi
Casting Ulrike Müller
Producer Kirill Krasovski
Co-Producers Saïd Ben Saïd, Kevin Chneiweiss, Paul Hasel

Produced by

Blue Monticola Film

Magdeburg, Germany

Co-produced by

SBS Productions

Paris, France

Maier Bros.

Leipzig, Germany

Unitbase

Berlin, Germany

World Sales

SBS International

Paris, France

Photos

Press Conference

Red Carpet

Angela Schanelec

© Jens Koch

Born in southern Germany in 1962. After studying acting in Frankfurt am Main, she appeared on stage at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and the Schaubühne in Berlin. From 1990 to 1995, she studied directing at the DFFB in Berlin. She is now a professor of narrative film at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Her feature film Ich war zuhause, aber won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2019 Berlinale. She followed it in 2023 with another Silver Bear, this time for Best Screenplay for her feature film Music.

Filmography (Selection)

1993 Ich bin den Sommer über in Berlin geblieben (I Stayed in Berlin All Summer) 1995 Das Glück meiner kleinen Schwester (My Sister's Good Fortune) 1998 Plätze in Städten (Places in Cities) 2001 Mein langsames Leben (Passing Summer) 2004 Marseille 2007 Nachmittag (Afternoon) 2009 Deutschland 09/Erster Tag; short film/Berlinale 2009 2010 Orly 2014 The Bridges of Sarajevo; short film 2016 Der traumhafte Weg (The Dreamed Path) 2019 Ich war zuhause, aber (I Was at Home, But) 2023 Music 2026 Meine Frau weint

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2026