For its 27th edition (September 26 through October 5), Filmfest Hamburg - the third largest German film festival after the Berlin International Film Festival and Munich - International Film Festival - will present twenty French films, some of which will screen in the Voilà! strand focusing on French language films. The 2019 edition will also be the occasion of a Céline Sciamma retrospective, which the filmmaker will attend.
Céline Sciamma, accompanied by the stars of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant, will travel to Filmfest Hamburg for the retrospective dedicated to her.
The festival will open with a screening of La Belle Epoque by Nicolas Bedos, in his presence, accompanied by Doria Tillier.
Other French artists will also travel to the event, notably Blaise Harrison for Particles and Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche for South Terminal, a film presented in the Veto! strand, along with Alice and the Mayor by Nicolas Pariser, and a documentary Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Justin Pemberton, written by and featuring Thomas Piketty.
All the French films at FilmFest Hamburg 2019
Voilà!
- Joan of Arc by Bruno Dumont
- Adoration by Fabrice Du Welz (minority)
- On a Magical Night by Christophe Honoré
- Fahim, the Little Chess Prince by Pierre-François Martin-Laval
- The Specials by Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
- I Lost My Body by Jérémy Clapin
- La Belle Epoque by Nicolas Bedos
- Particles by Blaise Harrison
- The Bare Necessity by Erwan Le Duc
- As Happy As Possible by Alain Raoust
- You Deserve a Lover by Hafsia Herzi
- Zombi Child by Bertrand Bonello
And for the Céline Sciamma retrospective, three titles directed by Sciamma and an animated feature for which she wrote the screenplay
Eurovisuelle
- Bad Poems by Gábor Reisz (minority)
- The Dead Queen by Antonio Ferreira (minority)
Vitrina
- Nona - If They Soak Me, I'll Burn Them by Camila José Donoso (minority)
- The Hidden City by Víctor Moreno
Asia Express
- Bombay Rose by Gitanjali Rao (minority)
Veto!
- South Terminal by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
- Alice and the Mayor by Nicolas Pariser
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Justin Pemberton, written by and featuring Thomas Piketty
- Our Mothers by César Díaz (minority)
Kaleidoskop
- 143, rue du Désert by Hassen Ferhani
- Abou Leila by Amin Sidi-Boumédiène (minority)
- Cunningham by Alla Kovgan (minority)
- Echo by Rúnar Rúnarsson (minority)
- Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa (minority)
- Sorry We Missed You by Ken Loach (minority)
- Tlamess by Ala Eddine Slim (minority)
- A Son by Mehdi M. Barsaoui (minority)
MICHEL (films for children and adolescents)
Freihafen
- Martin Eden by Pietro Marcello (minority)
- The County by Grímur Hákonarson (minority)
- You Will Die at 20 by Amjad Abu Alala (minoriy)
Große Freiheit
- The Audition by Ina Weisse (minority)
