Isabelle Huppert in The Blood Countess;
Credit: © Amour Fou Vienna, Amour Fou Luxembourg, Heimatfilm / P Domenigg
Four co-productions will represent Luxembourg at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival, known as the Berlinale, which is taking place from Thursday 12 to Sunday 22 February 2026.
As communicated by Film Fund Luxembourg, Die Blutgräfin has been selected for the Berlinale Special Gala section, while Roya will screen in the Panorama section. In addition, The Last Frontier will take part in the Berlinale Co-Production Market at the European Film Market (EFM), and the animation project Granny is a tree will be presented at the Annecy Animation Showcase during the EFM Animation Days.
The Berlinale Special Gala section features non-competitive, high-profile films starring international talent and aimed at broad theatrical distribution.
Die Blutgräfin (The Blood Countess), directed by the multi-award-winning Austrian filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger, is a co-production between Luxembourg (AMOUR FOU Luxembourg), Austria and Germany. The feature film blends fantasy, mystery and dark comedy and stars an international cast including Isabelle Huppert, Thomas Schubert and Lars Eidinger, alongside Luxembourg actors André Jung, Marco Lorenzini, Rosalie Maes and Konstantin Rommelfangen. Filming took place last March in several locations in Luxembourg, including Meysembourg Castle near Larochette, the Grand Hôtel Cravatte, Café Interview and Café Namur in Luxembourg City, and the Hôtel Bel-Air in Echternach. Die Blutgräfin follows the story of the “Blood Countess”, who awakens from a long sleep and sets out on a baroque quest through Vienna with her servant to recover an ancient book and the elixir of life, while a group of pursuers threatens the future of her vampiric realm.
The Panorama section showcases non-competitive international auteur films premiering worldwide or in Europe.
Roya, directed by Iranian filmmaker and feminist activist Mahnaz Mohammadi, is a co-production between Luxembourg (AMOUR FOU Luxembourg), Germany, the Czech Republic and Iran. The film follows Roya, an Iranian teacher imprisoned for her political beliefs, who faces a choice between making a forced televised confession or remaining confined in her 3m2 cell.
Luxembourg will also take part in the EFM, the largest European film market after Cannes, which runs alongside the Berlinale. The project The Last Frontier, directed by Rodrigo Moreno and co-produced by Luxembourg (Les Films Fauves) and Argentina, will participate in the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
In addition, the animation project Granny is a tree, directed by Hugo De Faucompret and co-produced by Luxembourg (Doghouse Films) and France, will feature in the first Annecy Animation Showcase, organised as part of the EFM Animation Days.
