28. Perlen – Queer Film Festival Hannover
Perlen (pearls), the Queer Film Festival Hannover, is an integral part of the cultural life of Hannover as well as the queer community of Lower Saxony’s capital. Every year the cinemas in Künstlerhaus Hannover (artists‘ house) open their doors for one of the biggest queer film festivals in northern Germany.
In its current form as a queer film festival with all-gender topics, Perlen exist since 1997, but its roots go back much further. Already in the late 1970s the former manager of the Communal Cinema initiated an anual, but solely gay film festival in Künstlerhaus.
The concept of the festival is exceptional. The cinema in Künstlerhaus – a municipal institution of the state capital Hannover – allows dedicated citizens to „make cinema“ and freely choose the festival programme.
Perlen co-operates with regional and supra-regional organisations, associations as well as foundations. Sponsors and sustaining members support Perlen in addition.
With 9 festival days, the pearls are the longest queer film festival in northern Germany.
Programme
Perlen – Queer Film Festival Hannover:
about 30 programmes of feature fiction and documentary films as well as short films with LGBTIQ* themes accompanied by multifaceted events, each year in October.
Summerpearls (former: Perlen in spring)
short programme of 3 or more queer films on the occasion of Hannover-Pride around the time of Pentecost.
Attendances
2.400
Awards
Publikumspreis GOLDENE PERLE in den drei Kategorien Spielfilm, Dokumentarfilm und Kurzfilm
Verleihung des 5. QueerScope-Debütfilmpreises 2020
Guests
several interview guests and talents