UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024 in Hamburg

UNERHÖRT! is celebrating the 18th edition of the music film festival in Hamburg. After the September summer of 2023, this year we are returning to the cinematic month of November – rainy and cold outside, warmth of other worlds inside! The first four days will take place entirely in the Metropolis cinema. The last day of the festival, on Saturday, in our much-loved venues B-Movie and 3001!

TUESDAY | 11/05/2024 | OPENING

Titelbild PEACHES GOES BANANAS beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

PEACHES GOES BANANAS

Marie Losier | Belgium, France | 2024 | 73’ | OmeU

For 17 years, documentary filmmaker Marie Losier followed the feminist queer icon Peaches on film. The result is an intimate portrait that provides a deep insight into the life of this inspiring, taboo-breaking artist. Discover Peaches’ electrifying concerts, her close bond with her family and how her energy, her fearless exploration on and off stage transforms every phase of her life into a captivating work of art. [Read more…]

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WEDNESDAY | 11/06/2024

“Punk youth researches” Double Program

U YEN beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

U YEN

Denis Shably | Russia | 2022 | 26’ | OmeU

A lively documentary from the Russian republic of Mari El, where the band U Yen presents us with ethnopunk as a special mediation technique for a culture threatened with extinction. [Read more…]


 

Titelbild I TRAVELLED THE SEA WITH SUN COUSTO beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

I TRAVELLED ACROSS THE SEA WITH SUN COUSTO

Elias Gamma | Switzerland | 2024 | 38’ | OmeU

The two Swiss women of the neo-garage punk duo »Sun Cousto« take us on a self-organized tour to Japan and into a very lively scene there. [Read more…]

Titelbild ZEF - THE STORY OF DIE ANTWOORD beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

ZEF – THE STORY OF DIE ANTWOORD

Jon Day | South Africa | 2024 | 90′ | OV

The story of the rap-rave duo Die Antwoord from South Africa, who play with excessive subcultural aesthetics – from humble beginnings to a global phenomenon. A wild audiovisual ride through lived hyper-expressive art. And a great love story! [Read More…]

Titelbild MUTINY IN HEAVEN - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY  beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

MUTINY IN HEAVEN – THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

Ian White | Australia | 2023 | 98’ | OV

Visually gripping portrait of the post-punk band »The Birthday Party«, consisting of Nick Cave and his school friends, on the road from Melbourne to London in the 1970s and 80s. [Read more…]

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THURSDAY | 11/07/2024

“Hamburg halblang” – Double Program

Titelbild BYTE FM - MUSIC AND IDEAL beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

BYTE FM – MUSIC AND IDEAL

Julien Deschamps | Germany | 2024 | 27’ | OV

The Hamburg music radio station founded in 2008, its business model, its philosophy: Good taste needs independence! [Read more…]

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ACHIM REICHEL - DER SPIELER beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024 in Hamburg

ACHIM REICHEL – DER SPIELER

Oliver Schwabe | Germany | 2024 | 57’ | OV

Portrait of the Hamburg beat legend, still active today and still alert at 80. Reichel remains a likeable wanderer between musical genres and his own style of making music his own. This is authentic and rarely found in the music business. [Read more…]

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Titelbild OMAR AND CEDRIC: IF THIS EVER GETS WEIRD beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

OMAR AND CEDRIC: IF THIS EVER GETS WEIRD

Nicolas Jack Davies | Germany | 2023 | 127’ | OV

Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala are the two masterminds behind the post-hardcore acts »At the Drive-In« and »The Mars Volta«. The film portrays the special, very deep friendship between the two under the conditions of the indie business. It was produced by the Hamburg label »Clouds Hill«. [Read more…]

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FRIDAY | 11/08/2024

Titelbild EFTERKLANG: THE MAKEDONIUM BAND beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

EFTERKLANG: THE MAKEDONIUM BAND

Andreas Johnson | Danmark | 2024 | 81’ | OmeU

For their latest record, the experimental indie rock Danes from »Efterklang« took a trip to North Macedonia, partly out of interest in the local music. What happened there is captured in this simply beautiful film, despite all its absurdity. [Read more…]

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Titelbild MONA MUR IN CONVERSATION beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

MONA MUR IN CONVERSATION

Dietmar Post | Germany | 2024 | 82’ | OV

Mona Mur gives a straightforward account of a career that began in Hamburg in the early 1980s with post-punk, led to London with pathos-pop flirting with industrial sounds and is still ongoing with music for cinema and computer games from Berlin. [Read more…]

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Titelbild BARBARA MORGENSTERN UND DIE LIEBE ZUR SACHE beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

BARBARA MORGENSTERN UND DIE LIEBE ZUR SACHE

Sabine Herpich | Germany | 2024 | 110’ | OV

The film follows Morgenstern during the production of her latest album »In anderem Licht«, from initial song ideas to tour appearances. Until now, the artist has been confined to electronics – here she makes analog music with people of flesh and blood. [Read more…]

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SATURDAY | 11/09/2024

Titelbild CRASS: THE SOUND OF FREE SPEECH – THE STORY OF REALITY ASYLUM beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

CRASS: THE SOUND OF FREE SPEECH – THE STORY OF REALITY ASYLUM

Brandon Spivey | United Kingdom | 2023 | 95’ | OV

About the history of »Crass«, British anarcho-punks of the first hour, and their song »Reality Asylum«: Its release on the band’s debut album was censored by the pressing plant in 1978, and the film tells how the artists dealt with this in radical self-organization – a journey through time to Great Britain in the 70s and 80s and a review of political and aesthetic resistance, which is as necessary as ever in a helpless present. [Read more…]

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STAY HOMAS. THE BAND THAT SHOULDN’T EXIST at the UNERHÖRT! Music Film Festival 2024 in Hamburg

STAY HOMAS. THE BAND THAT SHOULDN’T EXIST

Oriol Gispert, Nick Bolger, Ramón Balagué | Spain | 2024 | 85’ | OmeU

Three friends from Barcelona keep in touch with the outside world during lockdown by recording a new song every day on their cell phones and sharing it on Instagram. As »Stay Homas«, they go viral, collabos with well-known stars such as Manu Chao and Michael Bublé are made and many others cover the young musicians. They are now trying to figure out what to do with this unplanned fame. [Read more…]

Titelbild WE ARE FUGAZI FROM WASHINGTON D.C. beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

WE ARE FUGAZI FROM WASHINGTON D.C.

curated by Joseph Pattisall, Joe Gross, Jeff Krulik | USA | 2023 | 90’ | OV

Fan film about »Fugazi«, self-organizers, straight edgers, left-wing activists of the post-punk scene from Washington, D.C., who last performed live in 2002. This film is a clever compilation of concert footage shot exclusively by the band’s fans, capturing the thrill of these events, garnished with interviews in which these fans again have their say and describe their relationship to the band and to these recordings. A movie in complete harmony with the core beliefs of the musicians who inspired these passions. [Read more…]

Titelbild CATCHING FIRE – THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

CATCHING FIRE – THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG

Alexis Bloom, Svetlana Zill | USA | 2023 | 113’ | OV

Portrait of the actress, model and Rolling Stones muse. While Scarlett Johansson reads from Pallenberg’s unpublished memoirs to lush archive material off-screen, the female influence on pop history unfolds. With Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Kate Moss and many more. [Read more…]

SATURDAY |11/09/2024 | AWARD CEREMONY AND SCOPITONES

Titelbild CATCHING FIRE – THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG beim UNERHÖRT! Musikfilmfestival 2024

PUBLIKUMSPREIS UNERHÖRT! MUSIKFILMFESTIVAL 2024

Best Music Film 2024

Once again this year, visitors to the UNERHÖRT! Music Film Festival have the chance to choose their favorite film! The Audience Award, worth 500 €, will be presented to the best music film – and you decide who wins. After each screening, you can submit your vote for this year’s festival.

Scopitone Performance with Bernd Brehmer at UNERHÖRT! Music Film Festival

SCOPITONES-PERFORMANCE

 

Scoptitones performance by DJ Toni Scopi aka Bernd Brehmer from Werkstattkino München. Scopitones were 16mm films that were played on special jukeboxes in bars and cafés from the 1960s onwards. Today, these are curiosities from the early history of the music video, presented in a whimsical analog format: an evening as if painted for the B-movie – and hard to believe: a Hamburg premiere! [Read more…]

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UNERHÖRT! wird gefördert von der Behörde für Kultur und Medien der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg.
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UNERHÖRT! is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.