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NewsGerman production incentive schemes in the spotlight after 2026 funding runs out
Industry gathers at FilmFest Hamburg to debate the impact of €250m production incentive budget running out at the end of August.
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NewsLaila Marrakchi’s ‘Strawberries’ among FilmFest Hamburg winners as 2026 edition breaks attendance records
Other winners included Lav Diaz’s ’Let Us Through’ and ’Just An Illusion’ by French directing duo Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache.
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NewsFilmFest Hamburg unveils producer award winners, honours French distributor KMBO
Producer awards hand out prizes worth €85,000, while Kokh presented with distribution award.
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NewsEuropean Works in Progress presents over €100,000 worth of prizes at FilmFest Hamburg
Winners included Mirjana Karanovic’s Folk Play, Suman Sen’s debut feature Eka and Latvian black comedy Karmic Knot.
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Reviews‘The Ideas’ review: Six witty vignettes power director/star Fabian Stumm’s slice-of-life German anthology
Angela Winkler and Maren Eggert join an ensemble cast for Stumm’s follow-up to ‘Sad Jokes’
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News“It’s been eye-opening,” say African distributors participating in EFM Toolbox Distribution Academy
The training and networking programme is aimed at empowering a generation of film distributors across Africa.
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Reviews‘Call Me Queen’ review: Eliane Umuhire is magnetic in Emily Atef’s well-intentioned drama based on real-life Kenyan AIDS activists
The 1990s-set feature plays Hamburg before releasing in Germany in October
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Reviews‘The Other Side’ review: Nina Hoss gives a committed performance in pacy German survival thriller
Mariko Minoguchi’s follow-up to ‘Relativity’ is set in a dystopian post-pandemic world
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FeaturesFatih Akin reveals why two versions of ‘Ghost Song’ are screening at festivals
The love story had a well-received world premiere as the opening film of San Sebastian.
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Reviews‘Children Of The Sun’ review: Four German youngsters attempt to create a sexual utopia in poetic, puzzling Greece-set drama
Writer/director Leonie Krippendorff reunites with her ‘Cocoon’ strars Lena Urzendowsky and Jella Haase
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Features“Severe FOMO is an occupational pre-condition”: German buyers reveal the films for which they would bust the slate
Buyers from Pandora Film, DCM, X Verleih and Weltkino share insights on what is working at the German box office.
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FeaturesWhy the international performance of German films more than doubled in 2025
Majority German productions grossed €95m in 2025 compared to €54m in 2024.
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News‘The Sea’ scores key European deals a year after sweeping Israeli awards
EXCLUSIVE: Deals mark a significant turnaround for Israeli-Palestinian drama that initially encountered difficulties in the international marketplace despite its success at home.
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NewsFilmFest Hamburg heads talk showcasing German diversity, Spanish cinema and female directors
”We certainly weren’t short on powerful films by women this year,” said festival director Malika Rabahallah.
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Reviews‘Ghost Song’ review: Fatih Akin’s San Sebastián opener is emotionally satisfying supernatural romance
A strong perormance from newcomer Mariam Dawoud anchors Akin’s tender Hamburg-set love story
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Reviews‘Dau’ review: Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s sprawling new installment in his conceptual project is an affecting study of Soviet tyranny
The Venice competition title follows previous features and a 2019 art installation
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NewsEmily Atef’s ‘Call Me Queen’ joins Filmfest Hamburg’s full 2026 lineup
Helen Mirren will receive the 2026 Douglas Sirk award.
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Reviews‘Imperium’ review: Sergei Loznitsa surveys the 1970s Soviet empire in revealing archive epic
Italian archive footage forms the basis of an expansive documentary with clear contemporary resonance
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Reviews‘The Idiot(s)’ review: Aimee Lou Wood and Johnny Flynn spar in an audacious portrait of the Dostoevskys
An irreverent, eccentric take on the turbulent marriage behind one of literature’s great names
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NewsFive world premieres by emerging German talents to be showcased at Filmfest Hamburg
The Große Freiheit sidebar showcases contemporary German cinema.