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
Prices as of 28 September 2026. All hotels within 2500 m.
Premier Inn Saarbrücken City Centre
574 m away
59 € / night
Premier Inn Saarbrücken City Congresshalle
1078 m away
59 € / night
Mercure Hotel Saarbrücken City
535 m away
71 € / night
B&B Hotel Saarbrücken-Hbf
972 m away
73 € / night
IntercityHotel Saarbrücken
733 m away
75 € / night
B&B HOTEL Saarbrücken-Ost
1695 m away
76 € / night
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Hotels for visitors to Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival
Hotels from the Booking.com inventory, retrieved via Stay22. Tip: for big fairs, book early; popular hotels sell out months ahead.
Premier Inn Saarbrücken City Centre
59 € / night
Premier Inn Saarbrücken City Congresshalle
59 € / night
Mercure Hotel Saarbrücken City
71 € / night
B&B Hotel Saarbrücken-Hbf
73 € / night
IntercityHotel Saarbrücken
75 € / night
B&B HOTEL Saarbrücken-Ost
76 € / night
Holiday Inn Express - Saarbrücken by IHG
83 € / night
H2 Hotel Saarbrücken, Trademark by Wyndham
87 € / night
* Sponsored - booking runs through Booking.com via the Stay22 affiliate. Prices as of 28 September 2026; prices and availability change daily.
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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