Unlimited Hope 2026 | Day 1

At 6.00 pm, this year’s UNLIMITED HOPE film festival will kick off with members of the jury, festival director Caroline Nokel and other guests. The event will be hosted by Dr Irmtrud Wojak, director of the Fritz Bauer Forum.

This will be followed by a screening of the opening film , ‘Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt’ by Daniela Magnani Hüller.

Fourteen years after the filmmaker survived an attempted femicide by a fellow pupil, she revisits the defining moments and people from that time. These are memories full of warmth and hope, but also of coldness and brutality.

In a fragmentary, self-reflective narrative style, she revisits her experiences and meets the people who played an important role in her life during the three years surrounding the incident: a teacher, a former classmate, a doctor, a public prosecutor, a police inspector, her half-sister and a friend in Brazil. Through these conversations, she seeks their recollections of the situations at the time – and answers to the questions that have haunted her all these years. The journey takes her from Munich to Rio de Janeiro.

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