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Filmfest Hamburg 2023: The festival’s program and film highlights
“Poor Things” with Emma Stone in the lead role of the female Frankenstein monster is also one of the highlights at the film festival in Hamburg.
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After Cannes, Venice and Locarno comes – Hamburg! The 31st film festival will take place here from September 28th to October 7th, 2023. The program highlights.
This takes place from September 28th to October 7th, 2023 Hamburg Film Festival is taking place for the 31st time. This year, too, the film festival’s program list includes national and international highlights that make the event a cultural spectacle.
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A total of 132 films will be presented in ten sections as world premieres, European premieres or German premieres. From sophisticated arthouse films to documentaries and television films to blockbusters, almost everything is included. Special categories such as “Asia Express”, which focuses on Asian film productions, and “Kaleidoscope”, which is intended to offer intensive insights into the film business of different cultures, are also included.
Hamburg Film Festival: Sandra Hülser receives the Douglas Sirk Prize
A major highlight of the festival is the annual awarding of the Douglas Sirk Prize. In 1995, the award, which is intended to honor its namesake – successful director Douglas Sirk, who was born Hans Detlef Sierck in Hamburg – was given to Clint Eastwood for the first time. It honors personalities who have made an outstanding contribution to film culture and the film industry. On September 30th, this year’s winner Sandra Hülser will accept the award in person before the German premiere of “Anatomy of a Case”.
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In addition to Hülser, numerous other celebrities can be seen on the red carpet between Dammtordamm and Hamburg’s Cinemaxx cinema – even if the ongoing Hollywood strike is preventing megastars such as Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willam Dafoe from taking part.
The film festival finally ends on October 7th with the Swedish drama “Paradise Is Burning”. In addition to lots of contributions from the Scandinavian region, a number of films that have already won awards in Venice will also be presented this year. The highlights here include: “Poor Things” with Emma Stone as a feminist, female Frankenstein creature, “Priscilla”, the film dramatization of the woman’s life alongside Elvis Presley and the drama “May December” directed by Todd Haynes Julianne Moore and Charles Melton in the lead roles.
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