HYGGE
On a utopian reality show shielding them from global chaos, Levi dares to escape HYGGE’s cozy illusion—risking not just safety and the dream of being a mother, but also losing her partner Minu, who has found a home within its walls.
HYGGE is for anyone who is fed up with the same old narratives and belief systems that have steered us into a patriarchal late capitalism - one that is increasingly turning all our lives into a dystopia, and our future into a very real horror film.
HYGGE is meant to inspire the courage to imagine new and just ways of living together. And we wanted to bind ourselves to the same courage by embodying these values in the very way we produce. So may HYGGE ignite the courage for utopia on many levels.
Max Ophüls Film Festival 2026 - Official Competition
Eva Maria Jost, Bayan Layla, Catrin Striebeck, Pheline Roggan, Sophie Yukiko, Malte Thomsen, Vu Dinh, Susanne Dorothea Schneider, André M. Hennicke, Johanna Polley, Jenny Elvers, Hubertus Brand, Julie Deluz, Elmar Thalmann, Frieda Wackerman, Jan Kessen, Mathilda Kramer
Directors: Lena Fakler, Zarah Schrade
Script: Lena Fakler, Zarah Schrade
Producers: Linus Günther, Laurian-Luis Schymura
Co-production with NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Comissioner: Rike Steyer
Director of Photography: Antonia Pepita Giesler
Editor: Geraldine Sulima
Original music: Vanessa Donelly
Set Design: Lisa Ehlert, Anton von Bredow
Make-up: Lisa Becker
Costume design: Inga Zink
Sound: Swantje Alter, Sebastian Dieterle
Sound Design: Oliver Achatz
Sound Mix: Daniel Bautista
Production manager: Timon Kraaz
1st AD: Marie Kühn
A klinkerfilm Production in co-production with Norddeutschen Rundfunk
Funded by MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and nordmedia - Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH
in collaboration with MAGIC MEDIA PRODUCTIONS GmbH
