Hamburg Film Festival
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| Location | Hamburg, Germany |
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| Founded | 1991 |
| Awards | Douglas-Sirk-Award |
| Film titles | 148 (250 screenings) in 2012 |
| Directed by | Albert Wiederspiel |
| Website | www.filmfesthamburg.de |
Filmfest Hamburg is an international film festival, the third largest of its kind in Germany (after Berlin and Munich). It shows national and international feature and documentary films in ten permanent and several annually-changing sections. The range of the program stretches from art house films to innovative mainstream cinema, presenting the first feature films of young unknown directors together with films by internationally established directors. In 2012 more than 40,000 people attended 250 screenings of 148 films.
Since 2003 Albert Wiederspiel has been the director of the festival. The 24th edition of Filmfest Hamburg will run from 29 September until 8 October 2016.
The Hamburg Film Festival had various predecessors dating from the 1950s through to the 1980s. It was founded in late 1991 and first held in 1992. Academy Award winners and nominees such as Clint Eastwood,Jodie Foster,Christoph Waltz,Atom Egoyan,Julian Schnabel and Tilda Swinton, Dogma-founder Lars von Trier, award winning director Kim Ki-duk and German directors such as Wim Wenders,Fatih Akin, Andreas Dresen and Tom Tykwer attended the festival in the past.
The program of Filmfest Hamburg is composed of the following ten permanent sections:
This award is presented annually since 1995 to a personality who has made outstanding achievements within film culture and film industry. It receives its name from director Douglas Sirk, born in Hamburg as Detlef Sierck.
The Hamburg Producers Award for European Cinema Co-Productions will be awarded to the films in the section Freihafen (Free Port) which will feature German-European co-productions
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