Internationale Hofer Filmtage

Despite the adverse working conditions, two friends persevere with the power of their imagination and their will.

A simple worker gets caught up in the maelstrom of real estate sharks, evictions and clan crime, where humanity often gives way to greed.

Lola's hidden love for teammate Zoe challenges her both on and off the soccer field. Will she score or lose her chance?

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.

Bodo is standing on the top of a roof ready to jump when suddenly his phone rings...

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

Johanna Dohnal, icon of the Austrian women's movement and first Minister for Women's Affairs, shaped the Alpine Republic like hardly any other.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A film about the absurdities of being a mom today.

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.

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.

Three players in the free market economy accept responsibility for society and future generations: They do business sustainably.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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