18. July 2024
Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
17. July 2024
First films
16. July 2024
Unlimited cinema viewing pleasure
FILMFEST HAMBURG (26.9. – 5.10.2024) is offering all Hamburg locals a free cinema festival day on October 3. All films screened at the five festival movie theaters Abaton, Studio-Kino, Metropolis, CinemaxX Dammtor and Passage on that day are free to attend.
19. June 2024
New Cooperation
As an extension to the international programme for emerging filmmakers, FILMFEST HAMBURG ATELIER in cooperation with Semaine de la Critique, which was successfully launched in 2022, the festival will now be adding an ENCOURAGE Film Talents Industry Day to its activities for young filmmakers together with the new D/A/CH platform ENCOURAGE Film Talents.
26. May 2024
A Film for Freedom
The Seed of the Sacred Fig won the festival’s Special Jury Prize and another four awards and will celebrate its German premiere at FILMFEST HAMBURG this autumn. One week ago, the recently reconvicted director Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran and was able to present his film in person in Cannes last Friday to the great delight of the global film industry.
12. March 2024
TeleVISIONEN with new head
Director, author and curator Bettina Schoeller Bouju will join the programme team in mid-March, heading the TV section TELEVISIONEN. She succeeds Friedemann Beyer, responsible for the section for over ten years.
11. March 2024
AcadEmy Awards
Four Oscars went to Yorgos Lanthimos’ film Poor Things on Sunday, including the Academy Award for Emma Stone as Best Actress in a Leading Role. Justine Triet and Arthur Harari were honoured for Best Original Screenplay for Anatomy of a Fall.
24. February 2024
Cesars Awards
Justine Triet’s film Anatomy of a Fall was awarded a total of six Césars on 23 February, including Best Film and Sandra Hüller Best Actress. Chicken for Linda! by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach was honoured as best animated film.
10. December 2023
European Film Awards
Justin Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall was honoured with a total of five European Film Awards, including Best European Film. Further awards went to this year’s four FILMFEST films, Promised Land, How to Have Sex, Scrapper and La Chimera.
8. December 2023
Anatomy of a Fall wins EUFA
University students across Europe chose ANATOMY OF A FALL by Justine Triet to receive this year’s European University Film Award. The European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg announced the decision on Friday night during an official reception for the nominees of the 2023 European Film Awards on the eve of the festive gala on Saturday, 9 December in the Arena, Berlin.
12. November 2023
Statement by Albert Wiederspiel
Dear FILMFEST visitors, dear friends, as chance would have it, on the last day of Filmfest, the last day of »my« last FILMFEST, the world came to an end in Israel.
7. October 2023
Numbers, Closing & Farewell
The awards of the 31st FILMFEST HAMBURG were presented at the closing ceremony on the evening before the film Paradise is Burning by Mika Gustafson was screened at CinemaxX Dammtor.
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