September 5

Tim Fehlbaum's September 5 swept the 2025 German Film Awards: Lola for Best Film (Gold), Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actress for Leonie Benesch, five wins from a single ceremony, a tally rarely achieved by any production in the prize's history. It also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

The film reconstructs the events of 5 September 1972, when members of Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage at the Munich Games, from inside the ABC Sports broadcast booth. The conceit (staying entirely with the journalists, never cutting to the wider event) was credited to Fehlbaum and his co-writers Moritz Binder and Alex David. The cast is led by Peter Sarsgaard as Roone Arledge, John Magaro as Geoffrey Mason, Ben Chaplin as Marvin Bader and Benesch as the German-language interpreter Marianne Gebhardt; Magaro and Sarsgaard were cast for their American television-news authenticity.

Cinematography is by Markus Förderer, the German cinematographer who shot Fehlbaum's earlier Hell and Tides. The production rebuilt the ABC studio inside a Munich soundstage on the basis of period photographs and television-archive material; many of the broadcast monitors visible in the booth are showing the actual ABC tapes from the day, sourced from the network's archives. The film is widely treated as the most accomplished German production of the mid-2020s.