Filmfest Hamburg - Hamburg International Film Festival

Type : Feature film festival
Theme : All films
Location : Germany
Period : Septembre , Octobre

The team

Albert Wiederspiel
Festival director

Kathrin Kohlstedde
Film Office

Event presentation

Every year Filmfest Hamburg has one thematic focus and presents numerous contemporary currents of world cinema. More than 130 national and international feature- and documentary films are shown as World-, European- or German premieres. Every year more than 200 directors, actors, producers and screenwriters present their films in person at Filmfest Hamburg. Among them international guests, e.g.: Academy Award winners such as Clint Eastwood, Jodie Foster and David Cronenberg, arthouse filmmakers such as Aki Kaurismäki, Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders, Dogma-founder Lars von Trier and German directors such as Fatih Akin, Ayse Polat and Oliver Hirschbiegel represent the festival’s entire – and often controversial – artistic plenitude.
More than 1000 accredited business visitors accompany one of the largest German audience festivals which takes place every fall in 5 venues on 11 screens in the city of Hamburg in Northern Germany.