Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle Of Sadness heads the festival favourites that will screen at the 30th anniversary edition of Filmfest Hamburg later this month.
It will be joined by Cannes title Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N., as well as local Hamburg filmmaker Helena Wittmann’s Human Flowers Of Flesh , Kilian Riedhof’s You Will Not Have My Hate and Ann Oren’s Piaffe, which all premiered at Locarno, and Venice titles Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Inisherin, Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, Houman Seyedi’s World War III, and Alex Schaad’s debut feature Skin Deep.
As already revealed, Filmfest audiences will be the first to be able to see the latest feature films by Hans-Christian Schmid - whose We Are Next Of Kin will open the festival on September 29 - local filmmakers Fatih Akin (Rheingold) and Pascal Schroeder (The Social Experiment), and Aelrun Goette (In A Land That No Longer Exists). Reiner Holzemer’s documentary portrait Lars Eidinger - To Be Or Not To Be and an episode from the high-end TV series Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 by Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion are also both premiering at the festival.
As in previous years, the Filmfest Hamburg has over €100,000 in total prize money to be distributed to the winners of the competitions for the Hamburg Producers Award for German Cinema Productions, the Hamburg Producers Award for International Cinema Co-Productions, the Hamburg Producers Award for German Television Productions, the Art Cinema Award, the Critics Choice Award and the Politcal Film of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the NDR Young Talent Award, the Michel Award,and the Filmfest Hamburg Audience Award.
This year’s special focus on two contemporary filmmakers will be dedicated to Austria’s Ruth Mader and Argentina’s Santiago Mitre. They are both renowned for their work exploring power and social structures. The Filmfest will screen Mader’s latest feature film, the thriller Serviam – I Will Serve as well as earlier works such as Struggle and the documentary What is Love, while Mitre will be in Hamburg to present his political thriller Argentina, 1985 as well as Petite Fleur (15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour), The Summit and The Student.
As previously reported, the Filmfest will be hosting the national competition of the Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, with the festival organisers and filmmakers in attendance to present the films in person. The six Ukrainian features in the competition are Marian Bushan’s Sniper – The White Raven, Maksym Nakonechnyi’s Butterfly Vision, Kateryna Gornostai’s Stop-Zemlia, Solomiia Tomaschtschuk’s Between Us, Andrii Kokura’s Pokut’, and Taras Tomenko’s Slovo House Unfinished Novel.
Industry
The Filmfest’s Industry Days will run from October 4-6 and will include a roundtable hosted by equality organisation Women In Film and Television (WIFT) with women filmmakers from the Islamic.
German actress Iris Berben will also be in conversation, talking about her extensive career and highlighting therole she played in Ostlund’s Triangle Of Sadness.
The one-day Explorer Conferenc, organised again with the German producers’ association and MOIN Filmförderung, takes place on October 7. International speakers include BFI’s Mia Bays, Viaplay Studios’ Helena Danielsson and Match & Spark’s Anna Rozalska.
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