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Date: 11-15 June 2025

Location: Cines Embajadores

Since 1998, German Cinema is celebrated each year during Madrid’s Summer. The festival will take place for the 27th time in 2025.

The GERMAN FILM FEST Madrid showcases a variety of new German cinema: features, documentaries, mid-length as well as the NGST short films. A jury of four Spanish film experts is selecting the films, complemented by a special focus curated by the Goethe-Institut Madrid.

The festival is supported by the German Embassy Madrid, Asociación Amigos del Goethe-Institut España, and FILMIN.

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Date: 08-12 October 2025

Location: Cinema Arlequin

Since 1995, a carefully selected program of German films has been flickering across the screens in the French capital with 2025 marking the 30th anniversary of our festival!

A French "comité" selects a program for the 5-day festival, comprising a variety of German feature films, documentaries, medium-length and short films. The Goethe-Institut Paris, as a partner of the festival, selects three additional films to present a retrospective, homage or a special focus. Further, a master class for film students of the Sorbonne Nouvelle is organized.

The Festival of German Film in Paris is organized in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Paris and supported by ARTE and the DFJW/OFAJ.

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Date: 20-23 March 2025

Location: Cinema Quattro Fontane

The Festival del Cinema Tedesco is the new start for the Festival of German Films in Italy and has been organized in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Rome and the German Embassy since 2021. In 2025 the young festival celebrated its 5th anniversary with the launch of a new collaboration with Villa Massimo!

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Date: 8 & 9 October 2025 

Place: Paris

Since 2003, film professionals from Germany and France have met annually for a two-day encounter to exchange ideas and discuss new developments in the industry. The first meeting took place in Lyon, and since then the event has alternated between Germany and France.

In a new tradition, the Franco-German Film Meeting is now being exclusively held alternately in Paris and Berlin and is linked to the Festival of German Films or respectively the French Film Week.

Organized jointly by German Films and Unifrance, the meeting is a unique networking event that brings together up to 200 German and French film professionals each year.

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Every fall, the Goethe-Institut Barcelona and the Filmoteca de Catalunya, with the support of German Films, present the German Film Weeks Barcelona. As in the successful editions of previous years, the most interesting and innovative German films will be presented, focusing on auteur and independent films. All films are shown in their original language with Spanish subtitles.

Festivals

A-Festivals in Southern Europe

  1. Cannes Film Festival (A-Festival, France)
  2. Locarno Film Festival (A-Festival, Switzerland)
  3. San Sebastián International Film Festival (A-Festival, Spain)
  4. Venice International Film Festival (A-Festival, Italy)

For further information about A-Festivals, please contact Sylva Häutle.

Other Southern European Film Festivals

(selection by German Films)

Your festival is in Southern Europe, and you are interested in the selection of German films for your program? Then please get in touch with our Head of Regional Desk  Valentin Köhn. 

You can apply for travel support if you and your film are invited to a festival abroad.
Please find more information here.