Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival
The most important festival for young German-language cinema - seven days of premieres, Q&As with directors and a glamorous awards ceremony.
The Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival is the most important festival for young German-language cinema. Each January, Saarbrücken becomes the launchpad for the next generation of directors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Across seven days the festival screens feature films, documentaries and shorts, hosts Q&As with the filmmakers, and closes with a glamorous awards ceremony. Many titles that later succeed nationally have their premiere here.
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Hotels near Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival
Current prices and availability. All hotels within 2500 m.

Premier Inn Saarbrücken City Congresshalle
1078 m away
73 € / night

Mercure Hotel Saarbrücken City
535 m away
85 € / night

B&B Hotel Saarbrücken-Hbf
972 m away
85 € / night

Hotel Römerhof
1768 m away
85 € / night

Holiday Inn Express - Saarbrücken by IHG
1221 m away
86 € / night

H2 Hotel Saarbrücken, Trademark by Wyndham
584 m away
92 € / night
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Hotels for visitors to Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival
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Premier Inn Saarbrücken City Congresshalle
73 € / night

Mercure Hotel Saarbrücken City
85 € / night

B&B Hotel Saarbrücken-Hbf
85 € / night

Holiday Inn Express - Saarbrücken by IHG
86 € / night

H2 Hotel Saarbrücken, Trademark by Wyndham
92 € / night

Hotel Stadt Hamburg am Fluss Saarbrücken by Klassen Stay
96 € / night

Best Western Victor's Residenz-Hotel Rodenhof
104 € / night

Hotel Crystal
106 € / night
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Attractions in Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken
St. Arnual Dragon's Teeth (Westwall)
A 700-meter line of Westwall anti-tank obstacles on the Petersberg in Saarbrücken-St. Arnual - the final construction phase of 1940, now a listed monument.

Saarbrücken
The Burning Mountain near Dudweiler
Not really a mountain but a rocky ravine - a coal seam has been smoldering inside it for more than 300 years. Goethe visited the Burning Mountain in 1770.

Saarbrücken
Püttlingen Little Palace
This hunting lodge is a plain single-story Baroque building with a mansard roof, known as a building of 'seven bays'.

Saarbrücken
Kerpen Castle in Illingen
The small town of Illingen, whose parish 'Letoltingos' is first documented in 893, was the seat of a free imperial lordship of just a few villages.
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