International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg)

International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg

Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg

Also known as: IFFMH, International Film Week Mannheim
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International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (IFFMH) concentrates on discovering new directors. Its international competition, On the Rise, presents 16 first and second fiction features that compete for prizes from several juries, including the Grand IFFMH Award, the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award and the FIPRESCI and Ecumenical awards. Further sections include Pushing the Boundaries, Filmscapes, retrospectives, a homage and the Young Film Festival for children, teenagers and schools; short films appear as opening films for selected screenings, among them selections from the Girls Go Movie festival. Screenings take place in cinemas in both Mannheim and Heidelberg.

The festival dates back to 1952 and ran for decades as the International Film Week Mannheim. Directors who showed early work here include François Truffaut, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jim Jarmusch, Atom Egoyan and Hong Sang-soo. It is organised by IFFMH – Filmfestival Mannheim gGmbH, a company of the City of Mannheim. The 75th edition takes place on 5–15 November 2026.

Country

Germany

Categories

Feature

Dates

5 November 2026 — 15 November 2026

Awards and prizes

In the international competition On the Rise, 16 first and second fiction features compete for six prizes, five of them awarded by four juries: Grand IFFMH Award, International Award, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award, Young Actors Award, FIPRESCI Award and Ecumenical Award. The festival also presents the Award of the Student Jury and the German Documentary Film Award, and an audience award.

Festival rules

Submissions are for first and second fiction feature films intended for theatrical release, with a running time of at least 61 minutes, that have not yet been shown publicly in Germany and have never been submitted to the IFFMH before. Documentaries, short films and re-submissions are not accepted. The submission period for the 2026 edition ended on 30 June 2026. Submissions for the 2027 edition are expected from about March to June 2027; the exact regulations are announced at the beginning of 2027.

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