19.07.2017 | With three productions from the Hanseatic city
The Filmfest Hamburg will take place again this year from 5 to 14 October. Just under
Visitors to Filmfest Hamburg can once again look forward to a top-class film programme this year. The very first wave of confirmations includesThe Square by Ruben Östlund, winner of the Palme d'Or in Cannes. With its multi-layered and sarcastically revealing humour, it raises controversial questions about the current image of ourselves and society and focuses on the dazzling world of modern art.
If you want to see Hamburg on the big screen again, Markus Goller's filmSimple which celebrates its German premiere at Filmfest Hamburg. Hamburg and the North were the main filming locations for the story about a special brotherly relationship. The film starring David Kross and Frederick Lau will be shown in selected cinemas in the Hamburg metropolitan region during the festival as part of the "Stadt, Land, Filmfest" event series in cooperation with Hamburg Marketing.
Student Oscar winner Ilker Çatak celebrates his feature film debutOnce upon a time there was Indian country World premiere in Hamburg. The adaptation of the novel of the same name by Nils Mohl is a boxing film, road movie, western and music video set against a wonderful Hamburg backdrop.
In their documentary film, Hamburg documentary filmmakers Matthias Heeder and Monika HielscherPre-Crime with analytical software that is not only used in the USA to fight crime. In extensive research and with alarming results, the filmmakers ask where the protection of the population ends and where big data begins: an exciting docuthriller in the style of Minority Report.
Other films that have been confirmed so far:
Jupiter's Moon
Montparnasse Bienvenüe
L'amant double
The Summit
The Florida Project
The Cakemaker
The entire film festival programme will be announced on 21 September 2017.
