Holy Meat
by Alison Kuhn
Synopsis | Cast & Crew | Technical Information
When a small-town amateur staging of the Passion of Christ spirals into something the archbishop was definitely not expecting, a sleepy Swabian village becomes an unlikely collision point for three souls equally ill-equipped for salvation: Roberto, a theatre director freshly cancelled out of Berlin's off-scene, armed with too much vision and nowhere left to aim it. Mia, a young butcher who wakes up one morning as the legal guardian of her sister, with roughly zero preparation for either role. And Father Oskar Iversen, a Danish priest who left his island parish under circumstances he would very much prefer not to discuss, now facing the one fate worse than failure: going home.
All they need is a miracle. But of course, nothing won't go as planned as a whole community descends into chaos.
Awards & Festivals
Winner Best Comedy Feature - Cinequest 2026
Cast
Jens Albinus
Pit Bukowski
Homa Faghiri
Director Bio
Alison Kuhn is a German-Vietnamese director, writer, and actress. Her student films screened at various A-list festivals and were nominated for the Golden Lola and the First Steps Award. While still a student, Kuhn served as head director and screenwriter for the German remake of Norwegian hit series Skam and directed the miniseries Watch me. Her feature film debut Holy Meat hit theaters in 2026 and won the Best Comedy Feature award at Cinequest.
Director Statement
Holy Meat is my first dark comedy. The story itself is deeply rooted in my own life. I spent my entire schooling at a monastery school in southern Germany, where in 2012 the systematic sexual abuse of students by two of the priests came to light. It would have been natural to process the thoughts triggered by this in a documentary or a dramatic format. But the decision to choose comedy seemed to me to be by far the more exciting challenge.
Cast Bio
Jens Albinus
is a renowned Danish actor who shot to fame in the leading role of Lars von Trier’s The Idiots and continued to work with the director with The Boss of It All, Dancer in the Dark and Nymphomaniac.
Pit Bukowski
is a prolific German actor with over 100 films under his belt. He is will known for having played impressive roles in productions like The Bunker as well as famous German TV event series Das Boot and Babylon Berlin.
Homa Faghiri
is an up and coming young actress who had her first top billing in Sinje Köhler’s female drama Viva Forever before snatching up the part of the young angry butcher Mia in Holy Meat.
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