PEACOCK (PFAU - Bin ich Echt?)

Join us October 8-10 for FILM|NEU 2026, Washington’s annual festival of contemporary cinema from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Discover award-winning films and exciting new voices from across the German-speaking world.

All German-language films will be screened with English subtitles.

AUSTRIAN FILM NIGHT | October 9, 2026

The Austrian Cultural Forum Washington (ACF DC) in collaboration with NYU Brademas Center proudly presents PEACOCK (German: PFAU - Bin ich Echt?), the debut feature of Austrian writer-director Bernhard Wenger, which was selected as Austria's official entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards 2025.

PEACOCK (PFAU - Bin ich Echt?)

Dir. Bernhard Wenger
Austria, Germany, 2024
102 min
Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH, CALA Filmproduktion GmbH
German with English subtitles

About the film:
Do you need a 'cultured boyfriend' to impress your friends? A 'perfect son' to influence your business partners’ opinion of you? At MyCompanion, the cultured and confident Matthias is available -- for a reasonable fee -- to fill any social role you desire. But while Matthias is at the top of his professional game, his personal life begins to crumble as he detaches from his own identity and burrows deeper into his fictitious lives.

Join us for a glass of Austrian wine before the screening (sorry, no drinks in the theatre.)

Doors open at 5:45 pm.
 

About Film|Neu

Film|NEU is brought to you by the Goethe-Institut, the Austrian Cultural Forum Washington, and the Embassy of Switzerland in the United States, with generous support from DC Shorts International Film Festival, German Films, and the German Film Office.