Oldenburg 2025: The Awards
Ondrej Provaznik’s ‘Broken Voices’ takes the top prize, while debut directors flourish at Oldenburg 2025.
Oldenburg 2025
Oldenburg Film Festival 2025: The Verdict
The indie film event par excellence, Oldenburg Film Festival, returned over an inspiring five days filled with bold and creative filmmaking from brutal dystopian pregnancy dramas to charming mental health love stories.
Re-Creation
The gripping, formally inventive jury-room drama ‘Re-Creation’ is part speculative fiction and part true crime exposé built around strong performances.
Oldenburg pays tribute to Don Keith Opper
Most famous for his role in the Critters franchise, Oldenburg celebrates Don Keith Opper’s contributions as a screenwriter.
The Sleeping Beauty
Mattie Do’s The Sleeping Beauty is a beguiling fairy tale of accursed love that blends fantasy and horror, born of traditional Laotian folklore.
The Girl in the Snow
Louise Hemon’s feature fiction debut, The Girl in the Snow, takes real life stories and conjures with them an enthralling period chamber piece with folk horror inflections.
The Innocents
German Tejada updates Oswaldo Reynoso into contemporary Lima in The Innocents, a grungy coming-of-age drama that explores burgeoning sexuality and youthful alienation.
The Boy with White Skin
Labour and mythology come crashing together in The Boy with White Skin, a disquieting short set in the pitch darkness of a Senegalese gold mine.
Under the Burning Sun
Incandescent rage sets alight Under the Burning Sun, a road trip through a merciless dystopian desert where women’s bodies are not their own.
Eugene the Marine
Scott Glenn is fantastic in Eugene the Marine, a genre-bender that uses heartwarming comedy and bloody giallo to rage against the dying of the light.
Llueve sobre Babel
El elegante primer largometraje de la escritora y directora colombiana Gala del Sol es un carnaval queer audaz, ambicioso y caleidoscópico de lo basado libremente en el ‘Infierno’ de Dante.
Broken Voices
The insidiousness of abuse is expertly explored in Broken Voices, a restrained but devastating loss-of-innocence drama from Ondrej Provaznik.
perfectly a strangeness
The short experimental documentary ‘perfectly a strangeness’ pairs the mundane with the majestic in an equine odyssey to the stars.
Independent Spirit Returns with the 32nd Oldenburg Film Festival
The city in Lower Saxony comes to life with the return of Germany’s top indie festival, the Oldenburg Film Festival.