A war scarred woman fires a gun in Rose.

We’re about a month away from this year’s BFI London Film Festival, MUBI have started its promotion for one of it’s upcoming films, Rose. The award winning film starring Sandra Hüller has been given a UK and Irish release date of 2027, watch first official clip.

The historical drama is directed by Markus Schleinzer in what is his third feature film. Rose is set to be put forward as Austria’s Official Submission for Best International Feature Film for the 99th Academy Awards. Schleinzer’s debut was Michael (2009) a very dark drama about a man’s hidden life. His last film came out in 2018 called Angelo, the story of Angelo Soliman an African boy abducted into Viennese high society.

Rose is set after the Thirty Years War, our titular character is a war scarred female soldier posing as a man. As she wanders through a German village. As a man with an inheritance on her mind and attempting to gain acceptance.

The film debuted earler this year at Berlin, earning Hüller The Silver Bear for her performance. 2026 has been a busy year for the actress with Project Hail Mary, Digger with Tom Cruise set for release next month. Also in October (23rd) is Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland which we reviewed which Megan Hilbourne described as “visually stunning and emotionally layered drama“.

Synopsis | Amidst the turmoil of the Thirty Years’ War, somewhere in Germany, a mysterious soldier appears in a secluded protestant village. Small and quiet, his face disfigured by a scar, this stranger declares himself the heir of a long-abandoned farmstead and produces a document to support his claim
to the suspicious villagers. With time, he overcomes their doubts and shows himself to be a hard-
working, God-fearing man, becoming part of the community in a quest for acceptance made up of impossible deceit. The true and twisted tale of a deceiver of land and folk, who, defying her birth
as a woman, comported herself as a man and committed many a wicked deed.

Rose will be released by Mubi in UK and Irish cinemas on 5th February 2027. The film will make it’s UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival on 13th October.
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