Rose

Markus Schleinzer's Rose premiered in competition at the Berlinale in February 2026 and won Sandra Hüller the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance, her first major acting prize at a top-tier festival following her Cannes-nominated work in Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest. Schleinzer is the Austrian filmmaker behind Michael (2011) and Angelo (2018), both of which premiered at Cannes; Rose is his first Berlinale competition title.

The screenplay is by Schleinzer with co-writer Alexander Brom, drawn loosely from real church and court records of the period, Schleinzer has said in interviews that he spent over four years researching seventeenth-century Protestant village life in what is now southern Germany. Cinematography is by Gerald Kerkletz, the longtime Schleinzer collaborator who shot both his earlier features. The score is by Lorenz Dangel.

The supporting cast is largely Austrian and German theatre actors with limited international recognition, a deliberate decision by Schleinzer, who has said he wanted Hüller's face to be the only familiar one in the village. The Austrian-German co-production is between Coop99 in Vienna and Komplizen Film in Munich, the latter being the company that produced Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann. The film is one of the most acclaimed European arthouse releases of 2026.