With the 59th Hof International Film Festival, from 21 to 26 October 2025 (plus7streamdays until 2 November), Hof will once again be transformed into what it means for filmmakers and film fans from all over the world: a lively place of beginnings, encounters and creative development – The Place to Grow.
This year's festival poster features the glowing HoF logo on a dark, textured background. Above it, colourful trees grow upwards, towards the light, which provides orientation, warmth and inspiration. A picture full of hope, diversity and movement.
"Hof and its landscape are shaped by forests - deeply rooted, mysterious, powerful - they reflect exactly what the festival is all about: retreat and departure, change and new beginnings. No trends are created here – visions grow here," says Thorsten Schaumann, artistic director of the film festival.
HoF is a space in which great things grow from small beginnings. Where careers are born that shape the cinema world. Thorsten Schaumann sums it up like this: "HoF is a festival family that gives support, energy and trust – so that something new can emerge. The light of the screen shows the way for us to grow beyond ourselves – far beyond the cinema."
HoF – The Place to Grow.
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