All Hamburg articles
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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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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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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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NewsEWIP unveils 25 works in progress for 2026 edition
The ninth edition of European Work in Progress is held during FilmFest Hamburg’s industry days.
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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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NewsVue’s Eve Gabereau, KMBO’s Vladimir Kokh among lineup for Hamburg’s International Film Distribution Summit
They include Vue’s Eve Gabereau, KMBO’s Vladimir Kokh and HAKKA’s Mohamed Frini.
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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.
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NewsFilmfest Hamburg unveils opening and closing films
Films by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert and Josef Kubota Wladyka to bookend the festival.
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NewsFilmfest Hamburg unveils speakers for Explorer Conference 2026
Line-up includes The Intouchables directors Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, as well as the producers of Sentimental Value and Rose.
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NewsEquity financiers need data, say speakers at Filmfest Hamburg’s Explorer Konferenz
“Sales estimates are crucial,” said Marie Garrett, svp of sales and acquisitions at XYZ Films.
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NewsFilmfest Hamburg 2025 hits record-breaking numbers boosted by extended industry programme
Lloyd Lee Choi’s Lucky Lu won the €5,000 young talent award.
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FeaturesMilan Skrobanek on The Unspoken Language’, about the love affair between a blind man and a deaf woman
Skrobanek explains the challenges he found when casting the feature.
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Reviews‘Hen’ review: Greek life seen from the perspective of a plucky chicken makes for a compelling drama
Hungarian director György Pálfi’s emotive film takes the point of view of a hen escaping an industrial farm to reflect on humanity
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FeaturesMarlene Bischof and Nicolai Zeitler on how they made buzzy Hamburg title ‘I Am The Greatest’
” I throw dialogue in the air and he integrates it into the structure,” says Bischof of how the rising German filmmakers effectively collaborate.