Friendly Fire, which premiered at the DokFest Munich in 2025, was also shown at the Bavarian Five Lakes Festival, the Osnabrück Peace Film Festival and was a participant in Let’s Dok. The film will soon be shown at the Kassel Dokfest and will be released in cinemas on March 26th, 2026.

The film was also nominated for the Clio – the Moving History Festival Prize.

In the film, Klaus Fried follows the traces of his famous father, the poet Erich Fried.

Festival director Daniel Sponsel (Munich): “The film by Klaus Fried and Julia Albrecht is a gift at the right time, thematically highly topical, full of ambivalence and a complex family saga. Erich Fried united the most violent contradictions as an artist and a person: as a displaced Jewish emigrant from National Socialist Germany, he became a strict critic of Israeli politics. As a left-wing pacifist, he sought an exchange with the self-confessed neo-Nazi Michael Kühnen. His love life only partially follows his sensitive poetry on the subject. As a father, he remains a mystery to his son Klaus: larger than life and yet deeply human.”