Author: CO International

SIRENS CALL
Directed and Written by: Miri Ian Gossing & Lina Sieckmann

DE, NL | 2025
121′
filmfaust in co-produktion with Schalten und Walten, Elbe Stevens Films (NL) and ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel
World premiere at the Berlinale Forum 2025

A planet on the brink of drying out: a siren inhabiting a human body roams through a post‑modern United States, searching for identity and belonging. Sirens Call—a blend of sci‑fi, road‑movie and documentary—offers a vivid glimpse into queer subculture and body politics.

“Politically and artistically radikal. There is nothing quite like it.” – VARIETY

“The best thing a film about non-normative identities can do.” – CINEUROPA

 

SIRENS CALL hits theaters on April 30, 2026!
The premiere will take place at the Moviemento cinema in Berlin in the presence of the directors.

 

 

DER IDIOT (The Idiot)

loosely based on Dostoevsky
Direction and Stage adaptation: Martina Gredler

For her second production at the Bronski & Grünberg Theater, Martina Gredler has once again taken on a monumental classic: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot”—set within the confines of a Roy Andersson-esque setting—encounters here, above all, a powerful Nastassja, embarrassing rivals, and plenty of champagne.

The premiere taks place on April 30, 2026, at 8:30 p.m. at the Bronski & Grünberg Theater in Vienna.

Additional Performance Dates:
May 10, 12, 20 and 22, 2026
June 2, 3, 16 and 17, 2026

REQUIEM

Text & Inszenierung: Jakab Tarnóczi

REQUIEM is a multigenerational Hungarian family story centered around women: a larger-than-life grandmother, her daughter and daughter-in-law with whom she has a strained bond, and the granddaughter returning home from abroad. We gain insight into three periods of the family’s and their community’s life, defined by the motifs of birth and death.
The production is a joint experiment by Jakab Tarnóczi and his creative team on how theatre can speak about a nation’s state of mind, its nerves, its micro-communities – and whether it is still possible to believe in some kind of shared future.

The World Premiere takes place on April 25, 2026, at Katona Jósef Theater in Budapest.

EINE RUNDE SACHE (AND NOTHING EVER ENDS) based on the novel by Tomer Gardi
Stage adaption and Direction: Noam Brusilovsky

26.04.2026 at 8:30 p.m. at Alter Saal, Theater Heidelberg

World Premiere: September 2025, Schauspiel Stuttgart
“Lively, profound, and utterly absurd” / “A tale of mischief about the experience of being an outsider, which tackles serious themes with audacity and empathy.” – Südwest Presse
“Noam Brusilovsky’s production is every bit as witty as Gardi’s five-person picaresque play and runs like clockwork, ….”– Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung

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ELISABETH! by Mareike Fallwickl
Direction: Fritzi Wartenberg

01.05.2026 at 8:30 p.m. at Marguerre-Saal, Theater Heidelberg

World Premiere: April 2025, Burgtheater Vienna
“An evening that will leave no one unmoved.” – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“The script is outstanding. Stefanie Reinsperger and the directing team’s interpretation is brilliant. Cheers, ovations, and no end in sight.” – DrehPunktKultur

BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA

by Yousef Sweid and Isabella Sedlak
with Yousef Sweid
directed by Isabella Sedlak
Composition & Sound Design: Thomas Moked Blum
Produced by Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin

Isabella Sedlak and Yousef Sweid are coming to London with their internationally acclaimed production BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA, with performances at the Royal Court Theatre from April 20 to May 9!
Palestinian-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid dives into the chaos of identity, truth, and family life in Between The River And The Sea. Raised as a Christian-Arab kid in Haifa, now raising two Jewish-Arab kids in Berlin, he unpacks his in-between-ness – where contradictions clash and slogans fail. With biting humour and raw honesty, Sweid weaves personal stories, political reflection, and absurd everyday moments into a sharp, unflinching solo performance.

The London premiere will take place on April 20, 2026 at 7 p.m. at the Royal Court Theatre (Jerwood Theatre Upstairs).

WIR TÖTEN STELLA (KILLING STELLA)

Based on the novella by Marlen Haushofer
In a theatrical adaptation by Jakab Tarnóczi
Director: Jakab Tarnóczi

Following his staging of the Austrian premiere of Rutherford & Sohn, for which he was nominated for the Nestroy Prize in 2025, Jakab Tarnóczi is staging his second work at the Schauspielhaus Graz with his adaptation of the novella Wir töten Stella (Killing Stella).

The premiere will take place on February 6, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at the Schauspielhaus Graz.

VERRÄTER (TRAITORS) by Lisa Wentz

Jo is a teenager, she lives with her family in a Tyrolean village and has to see the pastor regularly. He appeals to her conscience, wants to lead her back to the right path – all because Jo fell in love with a young woman last summer leaving her mother deeply worried. The whole story is a scandal, even a sin in the narrow provincial mindset. Will Jo be able to emancipate herself in her quest for freedom and happiness?

The world premiere takes place on February 2, 2026, at 8 p.m. at the studio of Landestheater Linz.

FAKE JEWS

Written and directed by Noam Brusilovsky

In a present where one’s own identity is becoming increasingly important for the visibility and relevance of a statement, certain biographies are becoming a privilege: So is appropriating Jewish identity a career advantage? A selling point? Or is it rather the case that statements of this kind are not checked too closely when they are so historically sensitive? Noam Brusilovsky explores these questions in a monologue project and sheds light on the blind spots in German remembrance culture in an increasingly polarized present.

The world premiere will take place on January 29, 2026, at 8 p.m. in the Box at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.

Iconic
Sisi, Lady Di und die Welfinnen

featuring texts by Mareike Fallwickl, lynn t musiol, and Jacinta Nandi

In her production, director Jorinde Dröse focuses on royalty from the past centuries, and lynn t musiol has written a text about one of these iconic royal women.

The world premiere will take place on January 23, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at the Schauspielhaus of the Niedersächsisches Staatstheater in Hannover.

BLUTBUCH by Kim de l’Horizon

Director and Stage Adaptation: Anna Stiepani

Anna Stiepani—voted Best Young Director of the Year 2024/25 in the critics’ poll by Theater heute—brings her adaptation of Kim de l’Horizon’s novel, winner of the German and Swiss Book Prize, to the stage.

 

The premiere will take place on January 17, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio of the Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen.