The 58th Hof International Film Festival opens on 22 October 2024 under the motto “Good things happen in cinema”. The journey begins in the darkness of the movie theater, you start to dream or you let yourself be whisked away to faraway places. This year's spectrum of films shows a variety of topics that directors and filmmakers are dealing with.
The confrontation with reality often plays a role: life stories in the private sphere or the examination of current social issues. It is about solidarity and respect in times of global and social challenges, about toxic relationships, about the search for identity and finding love, closeness and humanity. It often plays with different genres, from romantic movies to comedies, from thrillers to mysteries, which again provide inspiration for new thoughts and ideas.
We are looking forward to the new work by grand master Rosa von Praunheim 30 JAHRE AN DER PEITSCHE, to Dominik Graf with JENSEITS DES RECHTS, to film artist Ludwig Wüst with #LOVE and to films by and with Julie Delpy MEET THE BARBARIANS, Léa Pool HÔTEL SILENCE, Daniela Porto and Cristiano Bortone MY PLACE IS HERE with the Italian stars Ludovica Martin and Marco Leonardi, and the three girlfriends in THE BALCONETTES by Noémie Merlant, a special genre film; the women in THE MILKY WAY by Maya Kenig and MEXICO 86 by Cesar Diaz with Bérénice Bejo.
We await the first film by the wtp collective ÜBERALL GIBT ES EIN HAUSEN, which was made without the great underground filmmaker Roland Reber, and the Finnish silent film SILENT TROLOGY by Juho Kuosmane or the first feature film by the children of French director Pascale Bonitzer, Agathe and Adam Bonitzer, who made the film THIS LIFE OF MINE together with their mother Sophie Fillières and then completed the film after Fillières' death. We meet Ulrich Tukur in MARTIN LIEST DEN KORAN by Jurij Saule and Laura Tonke, Ulrich Matthes and Andreas Döhler in JUPITER by Benjamin Pfohl.