Binnenalster Filmfest – The Artist

In the organizer's words:

Music and cinema on the Alster

Magical cinema nights where dancing and singing take center stage: Once again this year, the Binnenalter Filmfest combines modern film classics with a touch of musical and operatic charm over four days.

🎞️ The Artist

📆 September 19, 8:15 pm

📍 Steps of the Jungfernstieg

🎫F ree admission for all visitors.

The festival kicks off on September 19 with the Oscar-winning silent film The Artist by French director Michel Hazanavicius. This homage to the golden age of Hollywood tells the moving story of silent film star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), whose career is threatened by the rise of sound film. In contrast, the aspiring actress Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) experiences her breakthrough in the new age of cinema. Shot in black and white, the film forms a link to this year's FILMFEST HAMBURG program with Hazanavicius' latest film The Most Precious of All Goods. The animated film, which premiered in Cannes, tells a poignant and poetic story about humanity and hope in dark times, based on the book of the same name by Jean-Claude Grumberg. It centers on a married couple who live in seclusion in the forest and take in a little Jewish girl who escaped from a deportation train to Auschwitz.

32ND FILMFEST HAMBURG

FILMFEST HAMBURG will take place from September 26 to October 5, 2024. Over 120 productions from all over the world will be shown as world, European, German or Hamburg premieres. The festival cinemas are the Abaton, Alabama Kino, CinemaxX Dammtor, Metropolis, Passage and Studio-Kino. Discover the complete program here. Advance ticket sales start on September 12.

The Binnenalster Filmfest is an event organized by City Management Hamburg, Lebendiger Jungfernstieg e.V. and FILMFEST HAMBURG in cooperation with the Hamburg State Opera and is sponsored by the Hapag-Lloyd Foundation and the Alsterhaus.