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Golden Tulip Competition

ROSE

• Director: Markus Schleinzer
• AUSTRIA, GERMANY / 2026 / DCP / B&W / 93' / German; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Markus Schleinzer, Alexander Brom
• Director of Photography: Gerald Kerkletz
• Editing: Hansjörg Weißbrich
• Music: Tara Nome Doyle
• Cast: Sandra Hüller, Caro Braun, Marisa Growaldt, Godehard Giese, Augustino Renken
• Producer: Johannes Schubert, Philipp Worm, Tobias Walker, Karsten Stöter
• Production Co.: Schubert, ROW Pictures, Walker + Worm Film
• World Sales: The Match Factory

2026 Istanbul Film Festival – Best Screenplay
2026 Berlin Best Leading Performance (S. Hüller)

Amidst the turmoil of the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th century, a mysterious soldier appears in a secluded Protestant village somewhere in Germany. Small and quiet, his face disfigured by a scar, this stranger declares himself the heir of a long-abandoned farmstead and produces a document to support his claim to the suspicious villagers. With time, he overcomes their doubts and shows himself to be a hard-working, God-fearing man, becoming part of the community in a quest for acceptance made up of impossible deceit. The amazing Sandra Hüller won the Best Leading Performance Award at the Berlinale as Rose. Rose is the third feature by Markus Schleinzer (Michael, 2011, Angelo, 2018)

This film is screened with the support of Österreichisches Kulturforum Istanbul..

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.