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German Film Festival 2025

Films receiving their Australian Premiere screenings at the HSBC German Film Festival, touring nationally 30 April-28 May 2025.

OPENING NIGHT GALA - 2025 GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL (30 APR-28 MAY)

Hilarious and poignant, David Dietl's feel-good new ensemble comedy follows the tensions, joys and changing bonds experienced by a close group of friends over three years.

CENTREPIECE - 2025 GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL (30 APR-28 MAY)

Writer/director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay's sharp, nail-biting new whodunit follows the unfolding drama on a German film shoot after a burnt Quran is discovered on set, throwing the crew into turmoil. 

OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2025 GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL (30 APR-28 MAY)

A sensation at the 2024 Berlinale, Matthais Glasner’s compelling all-star drama is led by the incredible Lars Eidinger as a successful, middle-aged orchestra conductor negotiating the chaos of his volatile private life.

OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2025 GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL (30 APR-28 MAY)

The scathingly funny new comedy of manners from writer/director Frédéric Hambalek centres on a tantalising premise: what would happen if everything a family had been keeping private from each other was suddenly out in the open?

OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2025 GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL (30 APR-28 MAY)

Albrecht Schuch (All Quiet on the Western Front) delivers a stellar central performance in Bernhard Wenger's biting debut satire as a paid companion whose facade starts to crumble.

OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2025 GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL (30 APR-28 MAY)

Featuring a brilliant performance from Sam Riley (Control), Joachim A. Lang's spectacular biopic charts the comet-like trail of the brilliant choreographer whose too-brief career took him to the world's greatest ballet stages.