Worth Seeing | Sehenswert 2026
Szemrevaló | Sehenswert presents the best of contemporary German, Austrian and Swiss cinema for the fifteenth time this year — the Goethe-Institut's festival reaches Pécs alongside Budapest, Debrecen and Szeged, as it has for years, and here we host it together with the Lenau House, showing five of its films at the Apolló. The thread running through this year's selection is women who stand up for themselves in order to go their own way: Sandra Hüller won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale for the title role in Rose, which is also Austria's entry for the Academy Awards; Late Shift won four categories at the 2026 Swiss Film Awards; and the heroine of Wilma will mehr starts a new life in Vienna in her mid-forties with a toolbox in hand. Alongside them, two films about what absence and literature do to a person: Oh, This Unspeakable Void, in which Senta Berger plays the grandmother in a story that takes its title from Goethe, and You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?, a black-and-white grotesque in which exactly one person signs up for a creative-writing course. Admission to every screening is 750 forints.
27 October, 19:30
Oh, This Unspeakable Void / Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke
German tragicomedy, 137 minutes, 2025 · directed by Simon Verhoeven
Bruno Alexander, Senta Berger, Michael Wittenborn
After his brother's death, a twenty-year-old goes to Munich to train as an actor, and what holds him together is not the school but his grandparents' house, where the days pass among strange rituals and a great deal of alcohol.
28 October, 20:00
You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak? / Sie glauben an Engel, Herr Drowak?
German-Swiss tragicomedy, 128 minutes, 2025 · directed by Nicolas Steiner
Karl Markovics, Luna Wedler, Lars Eidinger
Exactly one person signs up for a creative-writing course: a solitary, embittered old man in whom the teacher's momentum revives something he buried decades ago.
29 October, 20:00
Late Shift / Heldin
Swiss-German drama, 91 minutes, 2025 · directed by Petra Biondina Volpe
Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Alireza Bayram
A single shift on a hospital ward with fewer staff than it needs, where Floria finds a little time for every patient — time she does not have.
30 October, 20:00
Rose
Austrian-German historical drama, 94 minutes, 2026 · directed by Markus Schleinzer
Sandra Hüller, Caro Braun, Godehard Giese
A woman returns from the Thirty Years' War as a man, and has no intention of going back to the life assigned to women in that age — she only wants to be a good citizen, at any cost.
31 October, 20:00
Wilma will mehr
German tragicomedy, 107 minutes, 2025 · directed by Maren-Kea Freese
Fritzi Haberlandt, Stephan Grossmann, Thomas Gerber
In her mid-forties, a Lausitz jack-of-all-trades loses her job and her husband within a week, then starts again in Vienna — with no plan, but with her tools.