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Women as lovers (Liebhaberinnen)

Koxi
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Female Director 2026 98 min Germany, Luxembourg
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Synopsis

A sharp tragicomedy about the impossible position of women under late capitalism

A trade fair hostess becomes fixated on a young cam girl that she discovers online. As one woman compulsively reinvents herself and the other takes drastic measures to escape her circumstances, an unseen bond emerges between them. Two parallel lives begin to expose the limits of a system where self-branding supplants liberation, optimization masks exploitation, and fulfillment remains endlessly deferred.

A contemporary adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek’s 1975 eponymous novel, Women as Lovers is a razor-sharp tragicomedy with an incisive performance from Johanna Wokalek that dissects the impossible position of women under late capitalism.

Cast/Avec

  • Johanna Wokalek
  • Hannah Schiller
  • Ben Münchow

Screenplay

  • Koxi
  • Antonio de Luca
  • based on the novel Die Liebhaberinnen by Elfriede Jelinek

Cinematographer

  • Jakob Berger

Sound

  • Christoph Schilling

Music

  • Antonio de Luca

Production

  • Christine Kiauk
  • Herbert Schwering
  • Bady Minck
  • Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu

Age classification

  • 16+

Screenings

Tuesday 10 March 2026 20:45
Talent présent  •  
Lieux : Kinepolis Kirchberg
Audio : German
Subtitles : English
Screening : 1st Screening
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Koxi

Koxi
Koxi

Koxi is a Luxembourg filmmaker, composer, and co-founder of the film production company paradies together with Antonio De Luca. She studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, and her short film Casting a Woman (2016) was nominated for the Luxembourg Film Prize. Women as Lovers (2025) based on the 1975 novel by Elfriede Jelinek, is her first feature-length film.

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Filmography

  • Women as Lovers 2026
  • Soft Skills (short) 2023
  • Casting a Woman (short) 2016
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