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Free entry day: Free films at the Hamburg Film Festival!
Find out everything about the “Day of Free Entry” at the Hamburg Film Festival on October 3, 2025 and its important role for culture and community.
Free entry day: Free films at the Hamburg Film Festival!
An exciting cinema event is coming up in Hamburg! On October 3, 2025, the so-called “Free Entry Day” will be celebrated again as part of the “Filmfest Hamburg”. Cinema lovers can rejoice: On this day, films can be watched for free in several Hamburg cinemas. The participating cinemas include the Abaton, the Studio-Kino, the Metropolis, the Cinemaxx am Dammtor and the Passage-Kino. Eimsbüttel News reports that all festival films will be shown on this special day free of charge.
The repetition of the “Day of Free Entry” is no coincidence. Last year's success could not be overlooked with over 10,000 tickets distributed. In his speech, Carsten Brosda, the Hamburg Senator for Culture and Media, emphasized the central role of culture for peaceful coexistence in freedom and diversity. It is important to particularly appeal to those viewers who have little access to cinema for social, financial or cultural reasons.
Cinema for everyone
But the focus is not just on the big day of free entry: the entire “Filmfest Hamburg” event will also take place this year from September 25th to October 4th, 2025. The latest films from around the world are shown over ten days. Malika Rabahallah, the festival director, invites Hamburg residents to discover the diversity of the film landscape and enrich their own cinematic experiences. The festival aims to reach not only film lovers, but also people who may not be familiar with the festival or rarely go to the cinema.
It's not just the big festival cinemas that are involved in this cinema offensive. Also a series of nineFilm festival around the cornerCinemas, including the Alabama, Koralle Lichtspielhaus and the Magazin Filmkunsttheater, are taking part and each have a film screening in their program. This campaign is supported by funds from the Authority for Culture and Media, so that even more people have the opportunity to become part of this cultural festival. Hamburg Film Festival highlights that tickets are made available in certain quotas in order to cope with the rush of cinema enthusiasts.
Promoting culture in Germany
The importance of such events becomes clear in a broader context through the upcoming changes in film culture funding. From January 1, 2025, the Film funding agencybe the responsible authority for the federal government's jury-based cultural film funding. This development is also intended to promote ecological and social sustainability in film production. As the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media explains, great value is placed on diversity and inclusion. Information about the new programs and funding opportunities can be found on the official website Film funding agency.
With so much on offer and the support from the city and federal government, the “Free Entry Day” in October 2025 will certainly once again be a highlight for all cinema fans in Hamburg. Now it's time to mark the dates in your calendar and enjoy!