Screening Date: May 13, 2026, Wednesday, 20:00

Director: Angela Schanelec
Screenplay: Angela Schanelec
Cast: Vladimir Vulević, Agathe Bonitzer, Birte Schnöink, Pauline Rebmann, Ben Carter

Germany, France / 2026 / 93 min. / Color / DCP / German / Turkish & English subtitles

Forty-year-old crane operator Thomas receives a call from his wife Carla, who has been taken to the hospital. When he arrives to pick her up, he finds her in tears. Carla tells him about a traffic accident she has just survived. Her friend David, who was in the car with her, has died in the crash. Yet Thomas responds to everything she tells him with a strange indifference.

In Angela Schanelec’s new film My Wife Cries, language plays a crucial role. A group of friends, colleagues, spouses, and lovers share the same spaces and spend time together; they talk constantly, yet hardly understand one another. Schanelec’s signature minimalist mise-en-scène and long takes intensify this sense of “emptiness.” At the same time, her subtle humor makes itself felt—particularly through deliberately literary dialogue and the actors’ performances.

The film competed for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival this year and, as expected from one of German cinema’s most uncompromising auteur filmmakers, divided both audiences and critics.