26th to 30th October 2005
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"When
people ask me what part of filmmaking I like best, I always
tell them "Going to the film festivals". When
I´m thinking about film festivals, I always think
of Hof..."
Jack Sholder
From October 26th to 30th, we will once again present
a varied programme selected by Heinz Badewitz that encompasses
German as well as international productions. Like every
year in autumn, the city of Hof turns into a “melting
pot” of encounters, discussions, emotions, and late
nights. |
To give you a first impression of our programme:
We’re very happy that, after a few years’ absense,
the French cinema is returning to Hof with films such as
"Gabrielle" by Patrice Chereau and "Lemming"
by Dominik Moll which opened this year’s festival in
Cannes. The actor Melvil Poupaud will present François
Ozon’s "Le Temps qui reste"
and, a first in Germany, show three of his own shorts. Our
guests will also include Michael Caton-Jones with his new
movie "Shooting Dogs", James Toback
with "When I will be loved", Atom
Egoyan with "Where the Truth lies"
and Paul Sletaune with "Next Door".
German productions are, among others, Werner Herzog’s
"The wild blue Yonder", Andreas
Dresen’s latest film, "Sommer vorm Balkon",
Aelrun Goette’s first feature "Unter dem
Eis" – in 2003, the director had presented
her impressive documentation "Die Kinder sind tot"
in Hof – as well as "Im Schwitzkasten"
by Eoin Moore and Spiro Taraviras’s documentation
"Buzz" about the legendary 40’s
and 50’s Hollywood script writer 'Buzz' Bezzerides.
Furthermore, Veit Helmer will be coming to Hof with his new
film "Behind the Couch – Casting in Hollywood",
and Stanislav Mucha, now living in Hof, will present
"Reality Shock". The young German director
Neele Vollmar will show her first full-length feature film,
"Urlaub vom Leben".
Of course there will also be films from New Zealand, Canada,
the States and the UK as well as Austrian and Swiss films
about which we will inform you in more detail shortly.
This year’s retrospective is dedicated to Costa-Gavras
who will not only present a selecton of his earlier films
but also his latest production, "Le Couperet", starring
José Garcia and Ulrich Tukur.
Apart from the usual prizes that are awarded in Hof –
the "Film Award of the City of Hof", the "Eastman
Award", presented by Kodak, the "Award for Best
Set“, awarded by the association of set designers, film
architects and costume designers, S/F/K, and the "Award
for Visual Film Review", awarded to a film journalist
by the magazine Film & TV Kameramann, bvkamera and the
association of German film review – this year will see
the first “German Film Award”, presented jointly
by HypoVereinsbank, Bavaria Film and Bayerischer Rundfunk.
With this award, the initiators emphasize their support for
young talents in German film. The "German Film Award
Hof" includes prize money of 10.000 Euro and is awarded
by an independent jury for an exceptional artistic effort.
The Hof International Film Festival is supported by Arte Germany
as main sponsor, HypoVereinsbank, Munich, and the business
initiative Hochfranken as well as many other institutions
whom we would all like to thank.
Box Office Ticket Sales
Individual tickets:
Valid for one screening only, available from the ticket booth
at the Central Theater in Altstadt for EURO 3,50/5,-- unless
sold out.
If at all possible, tickets for practically all screenings
are made available on the free market. Every film is screened
at least twice in the course of the festival. Generally, we
recommend visiting second screenings since first screenings
tend to be sold out.
Daily:
Any remaining tickets are sold half an hour before the screening
at the ticket booth outside the Central Theater.
Opening hours
Wednesday:
from 3 p.m. for the whole day, all theatres
from 6 p.m. for the remaining screenings on Wednesday as well
as all screenings on Thursday
Thursday:
from 10.30 a.m. for the whole day, all theatres
from 18.00 remaining tickets for all evening screenings, tickets
for friday and for sunday
Friday:
from 10:30 a.m. for the whole day, all theatres
from 18.00 remaining tickets for all evening screenings, tickets
for saturday and for sunday
Saturday:
from 10:30 for the whole day and for sunday, all theatres
from 18.00 remaining tickets for all evening screenings
Sunday:
From 10:30 a.m. for the whole day, all theatres
WE REGRET THAT WE CANNOT ACCEPT ADVANCE BOOKING BY TELEPHONE
OR TICKET RESERVATIONS!
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