The GRANIT – Hof Documentary Award 2023 goes to FRANK MEYER by Leonhard Hofmann and Riccardo Dejan Jurkovic. Special mentions go to RESTORATION by Gudrun Gruber as well as SLEEPING GIANT by Markus Schröder.
With a total number of 44 – including 26 German productions and co-productions – documentaries are well-represented at the 57 Hof IFF. Among them is Austrian filmmaker Günter Schwaiger, who has already screened his films in Hof several times, and this time will present the German premiere of WHO IS AFRAID OF HITLER'S TOWN? – A HOUSE AND THE PAST WITHIN US, [57 Hof IFF] a very personal film that attracted international attention, as well as PROJECT BALLHAUSPLATZ – RISE AND FALL OF SEBASTIAN KURZ [57 Hof IFF] by Kurt Langbein, an other Austrian production in the programm.
LineUp German documentary productions and co-productions among others:
- 7 OR HOW TO STOP THE TIME | 7 ODER WIE HALTE ICH DIE ZEIT AN by Antje Starost, Hans Helmut Grotjahn, 85min, sequel to 7 OR WHY I EXIST | 7 ODER WARUM ICH AUF DER WELT BIN, P: Antje Starost Film Produktion, [57 Hof IFF]
- THE ART OF FRIENDS – business UNusual by Lukas Riedl, 74min, P: Smaragd Media Production, [57 Hof IFF]_
- BETWEEN THE FIELDS | UNGEHEUERHOF – CHRONIKEN UND GEMÜTSZUSTÄNDE AUD DEM LAND by Gretel Ribka, Jonas Riedinger, 29min, HFF Munich, [57 Hof IFF]
- BEHIND GOOD DOORS | HINTER GUTEN TÜREN by Julia Beerhold, 79min, P: Ester.Reglin.Film, D: mindjazz pictures, [57 Hof IFF]
- DANCING HEARTBEATS by Lisa Wagner, 92min, P: Lichtblick Film, D: JIP Film und Verleih, [57 Hof IFF]
- DETZMAN WALKING by Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt, 81min, P: Mangan25, [57 Hof IFF]_
- DISTURBANCE | STÖRUNG by Constantin Hatz, 90min, P: Kinescope Film, D: Film Kino Text, [57 Hof IFF]
- EINS ZU EINS by Saskia Kessler, 9min, HFF Munich, [57 Hof IFF]_
- FRANK MEYER by Leonhard Hofmann, Ricardo Dejan Jurkovic, 84min, P: Leonhard Hofmann, Ricardo Dejan Jurkovic, [57 Hof IFF]
- HARRAGA – THOSE WHO BURN THEIR LIVES by Benjamin Rost, 86min, P: MSZ // Production & Consulting, [57 Hof IFF]
- HIGHRIDERS | FLIEGENDE BAUTEN by Johann Schilling, 55min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, [57 Hof IFF]
- IN WOLF COUNTRY | IM LAND DER WÖLFE by Ralf Bücheler, 102min, P: if… Productions Film GmbH, D: mindjazz pictures, [57 Hof IFF]
- MEDUSA by Elisabeth Plattner, 9min, HFF Munich, [57 Hof IFF]_
- MOTHER LANDS | MUTTERLAND by Miriam Pucitta, 96min, P: if… Productions Film GmbH, Mira Film, [57 Hof IFF]
- MY BODY, MY SOUL by Clarissa Eysell, 88min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, [57 Hof IFF]
- THE PENPAL | DIE BRIEFFREUNDIN by Sarah Klewes, 80min, P: solo:film, HFF Munich, [57 Hof IFF]
- QUEER EXILE BERLIN by Jochen Hick, 104min, P: GALERIA ALASKA PRODUCTIONS, [57 Hof IFF]
- RESTORATION by Gudrun Gruber, 71min, P: NEOSOLARIS Film, HFF Munich, [57 Hof IFF]
- SCHLEIMKEIM – OTZE AND THE GDR FROM UNDER GROUND | SCHLEIMKEIM – OTZE UND DIE DDR VON UNTEN by Jan Heck, 96min, [57 Hof IFF]
- SLEEPING GIANT | DER SCHLAFENDE GIGANT by Markus Schröder, 84min, P: FUTURE LIGHTS UG, WS: Sala46 Films, [57 Hof IFF]
- STICK TOGETHER | BIS HIERHIN UND WIE WEITER? by Felix Maria Bühler, 90min, P: Felix Maria Bühler Produktion, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, [57 Hof IFF]
- TRINKHALLE by Alexa Ramthun, 23min, P: Vervest Films | Lars Köppl, Alexa Ramthun GbR, [57 Hof IFF]
- WAITING, NOT WAITING | WARTEN. NICHT WARTEN by Jonathan Brunner, 17min, [57 Hof IFF]
- WHAT REMAINS – JOURNALISTS IN CRISIS AREAS | WAS BLEIBT – JOURNALISTINNEN IN KRISENREGIONEN by Lotta Pommerien, 78min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, [57 Hof IFF]
- WORDS by Hannah Jandl, 25min, [57 Hof IFF]_
Accompanying the screenings in the cinema, festival films will be available online at HoF On-Demand in the plus7streamdays until Sunday, November 05, 2023. Download the schedule as PDF here. Find the direct links to the film description and possibility to stream the films all across Germany by clicking [57 Hof IFF] in the list above.
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