Overview

• #SchwarzeSchafe premiered on July 17, 2025, and is now playing nationwide across Germany.
• Interconnected stories portray a climate-activist clan boss, a gender-doll inventor, a speed-fueled balcony beekeeper and a fisherman crafting snacks from invasive swamp crabs.
• Director Oliver Rihs financed the project solo through Port-au-Prince Film-&-Kultur-Produktion without broadcaster involvement or public film funding.
• Jella Haase describes Berlin as a magnetic yet increasingly unaffordable “Sehnsuchtsort,” while Milan Peschel laments rising rents and a loss of solidarity in the city.
• Critical response is divided between praise for its raw social commentary and ensemble energy and criticism that it fails to recapture the original’s cult edge.