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
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
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…]
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…]
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…]
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
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
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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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
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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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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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
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
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…]
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…]
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
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.
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…]