Internationale Hofer Filmtage

In Ciudad Juárez, a city notorious for its violence against women, courageous women are rising up against oppression and violence.

Girlboss Hanna hopes to get a career boost in Israel, but volunteering holds a few surprises for her.

With a budget of 517 euros, Axel Ranisch created his debut, a tragicomedy in a warm-hearted, improvisational style.

Hamburg's housing shortage forces car inspector Gina and British pyromaniac Harry to move into the same apartment.

The German realities of the 80s, spontaneously captured with sarcastic wit and occasionally parodied to the point of absurdity.

Two prefabricated buildings facing each other, three women, three generations, one video camera. The story of an obsession.

A striking documentary by renowned photojournalist David Klammer about protesters fighting to stop the clear-cutting at the Dannenröder Forest.

An ex-dairy farmer and an animal rights activist start a living farm for cows.

In 2017, Jacques Dubochet won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him famous overnight. He decides to use his new fame for something good.

A melancholic, darkly humorous examination of the theater world and the culture industry.

Rosa von Praunheim's search for his own roots interweaves his personal life story with the larger historical context of the Second World War.

Lotti Huber, the 77-year-old singer, dancer and actress brimming with the spirit of life, tells of her eventful life in this semi-documenary film.

Three German women go to New York City in the early 1980's and try to get established there.

Rosa von Praunheim portrays Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, famous transvestite from the former GDR, in a winning mix of documentary and feature film.

After the success of his series "Ebersberg", director Manuel Weiss takes a father-daughter duo into the gloomy depths of the German forest.

Despite its disarmingly strange erotic scenes, The Skin of Others is a deeply romantic love story.

Director Charlène Favier deals with her own experiences of abuse as a young junior athlete in this compelling and haunting drama.

Isolated from the outside world a mother lives with her daughter in a remote house. The mother is training her daughter to be a survival specialist.

Adèle's attempt to recover from a breakup leads to surprising results. Jumping from one lover to the next, she realizes that they are similar.

Christoph Schlingensief's answer to "Pop Idol" was "Freakstars 3000".

To pay for his children's education, Sierra Leonean farmer Alimamy is taking a gamble: he wants to sell the entire cassava harvest at the next market.

A choreographer and a visual artist bring together urban dance and opera to reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes.

A grieving teenage girl is drawn to the young man blamed for her brother's death.

The exciting world of drag queens Cybersissi and BayBjane are at the center of this documentary fairytale.

Teens Elisa and Anthea devise a sinister and destructive game as a way to sustain their mismatched friendship.

A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.

Growing up in a rural idyll on his father's farm, teenager Johannes searches for his place in life.

Based on a true story: The film examines the German justice system and its structural bias.

A young woman ventures into the deadly beauty of the Chernobyl exclusion zone to save her father from prison.

When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina.

1956: 13-year-old Johanna, a polio sufferer, uses her camera to document family life, her coming of age and what really happens behind closed doors.

Sophie and Wolfram meet in the hospital and set off together on their final journey. Both are terminally ill with cancer.

Three ladies of status report on a German parallel society characterized by conservatism and family.

In this absurd interpretation of reality, the disappearance of a cat triggers a financial crisis.

After more than 80 years, the "Scala Filmpalast" had to make way for a drugstore.

Michael Nyman is now one of the great composers of our time, who captivates above all with his richness of facets.

A warm-hearted yet stylistically radical film portrait in black and white and color about Edgar Reitz and his encounter with a young female filmmaker.

Against the backdrop of open air festivals, a passionate amour fou develops between Georg, Vera and the bon vivant Dave.

Mark and Antonia have a long-distance relationship and are taking a joint holiday in Paris. Their last visit was a long while back. How will it go?

A guided tour through the improvised spaces of Janka Industries, an underground cellar vault and creative microcosm of Vienna’s subculture.

A woman walks out on her husband and two children without a word of explanation. She’s driven by an irresistible force. She wants to be free.

The anonymous Berlin concrete building "Excelsior" is only a temporary stop for its residents, yet some have been living there for more than 50 years.

Barbara Eder's impressive war drama shows the very unique world of war correspondents and their relationship to war.

A gay couple from Tel Aviv wants to become parents, ideally twins with an American surrogate mother, one child from each father.

Christoph Schlingensief's interpretation of German reunification resembles a cannibalistic slaughter house.

In one of Jerusalems oldest tattoo studio Jews, Christians, Muslims and atheists get their tattoos done.

The Dadaist artist collective Gelitin is known for its sensational, worldwide art happenings.

Marieke is afraid of love and seeks warmth, tenderness and affection in the arms of much older men, with whom she associates above all gentle, sensitive ...

An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.

The world we have just entered resembles a futurist machine. It is a colossus of concrete and glass, with a computer heart heart deep inside.

Composer Mikis Theodorakis is the enfant terrible of contemporary European music history - an exceptional artist in a dramatic century.

Four Japanese sisters find each other again after a stroke of fate.

The coming-of-age drama by Michal Rogalski tells how everyday life in the WW2 grey zone between normality and terror looked like...

Florence is trapped at an early age in a hotbed of cruelty. Sexually abused and raped within her own family, she runs away from home as a teenager.

Three episodes, four characters, two couples and the one moment when everything changes.

Only armed with a phone number and a blurry profile picture, Lene searches the streets of Berlin an online acquaintance.

A German Mumblecore movie, an ode to the city of Berlin, a romantic comedy, father-daughter drama, and a portrait of a woman all rolled into one.

In Veit Helm's fairy-tale feature debut, shy Anton struggles to prevent the closure of his family's dilapidated indoor swimming pool.

When the elderly and lonely Hanna causes an accident in Germany in which a young man from Kosovo dies, she tries to track down his family.

Portrait of action artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, gallery owner and "anarchist" Ben Wagin.

Conflict-avoidant Thomas just wants a relaxing holiday in the Swiss Alps. But, it's a slippery slope from the beginning. In an effort to repair his own ...

The tragicomedy SCHWESTER WEIß by Dennis Todorovic is about faith and doubt, family and trust; premiered at the International Hofer Filmtage.

In Oliver Meinborn's graduation film, we watch the staid penny pincher Dieter and street philosopher Ronan go on an unexpected road trip.

A milieu study and an existentialist drama about a prostitute who fluctuates between nationalism and socialism.

Father and daughter grapple with a secret that goes back to the Argentinian dictatorship of the 1970s. In fact she was adopted - and they begin a search ...

Louise got laid off. What to do now? Louise hires a killer. A politically incorrect farce that seems to be the only antidote to irresponsible casino capitalism. Yesterday ...

Linda Grey, a young, drug-addicted movie star, flies in to Berlin to promote her newest song “I wanna fuck a Nazi”.

Years ago Anton disappeared. Out of the blue he invited his family and friends to a party. But everyone's joyful expectation soon fades.

What's reality and what's art? What happens when the tables are turned, and art no longer imitates nature but things go the other way round?

Author Brand hasn't put a word to paper since his wife has fallen sick. To cope with her imminent death and find a way out of his creative dead end, he ...

In her search for sexual fulfillment, Nadja loses herself in an all-consuming passion from which she no longer wants to emerge.

German romantic Bollywood comedy: Nisha is a janitor at the Frankfurt Airport but of dreams of becoming a flight attendant.

Hounded deals with the obsessive relationship between a confused teenager and an elder woman.

This sharply observed psychodrama follows an accountant plagued by panic attacks and self-pity who maneuvers himself into an existential impasse.

Hans is a bike messenger from Berlin-Kreuzberg, going about with his daily life, trying to escape from the truth in supposed ordinariness.

A boy playing with a toy gun in the woods is pulled into an altered reality.

The terminally ill Parvis K. flees Iran across the Mediterranean Sea to Spain to reconcile himself with his daughter Nasrin, who lives in Europe.

Gripping psycho thriller based on real stories of people in a Berlin youth detention center.

Simon Dolensky's graduation film from the International Film School Cologne was nominated for the First Steps Award.

In a personal crisis, assisted living becomes a lifesaver for Richard.

Konstantin, the young revolutionary from Lower Bavaria, dreams of overthrow and a communal uprising.

Douglas Wolfsperger meets fathers who share his fate: They can't see their own children, because the ex-partners prohibit any contact.

The satire project TEST DRIVE TO PARADISE by Douglas Wolfsperger presents a pastor and his pilgrims with a severe test of faith.

Greta Klingsberg, a cheerful Holocaust survivor, creates an incredible fascination with her stories.

Portrait of the unique Female Brass Band of Berlin (FBOB), unique because it unites women of all ages and walks of life in the common cause of music.

Sandra is new in town and does not fit into the cool clique around Nadja and Isa. Then she falls in love with Mike, who also caught Nadja's attention.

The Partyqueen Nico is a luxury girl from a wealthy home. At a party she falls in love with Paco, who is her complete opposite.

2004, Kreuzberg at a time before hipsters, beer bikes and pub crawls.

In the Berlin-Kreuzberg microcosm, respect, betrayal and a suitcase full of money provoke great existentialist gestures - including trauma or death.