Hobnobben 2024 Schedule is Live!
The full film lineup for the 2024 Hobnobben Film Festival is now live! Film descriptions, showtimes and more can be viewed on the website. The in-person festival runs October 3-6. The virtual arm of the festival, which allows attendees to view films online, runs from October 3-19.
Festival passes are now available for purchase! Single day passes are $30 each, but Opening Night (Thursday, October 3) is only $15. A 4-day pass is $60. You can also purchase tickets to the individual blocks by checking out our schedule and clicking on buy in-person tickets for the film block you’d like to see.
Hobnobben is offering a Deluxe VIP Pass that provides all-access admission to the in-person festival, the virtual festival, all workshops, and the filmmaker green room, as well as a free t-shirt, poster, and one popcorn and fountain drink each day.
All festival films will be shown at Fort Wayne Cinema Center, 437 E. Berry St. The virtual festival can be accessed here.
This year’s festival features 141 films grouped into 32 blocks from 30 countries in 27 languages. About 20% of the films have an Indiana connection, and the festival’s Opening Night will screen a block of 9 shorts from local and Indiana filmmakers followed by the feature The Last Days of Summer, which is the the first feature film from Indianapolis filmmaker, Alex Rodgers.
“We are so proud of the program we have put together this year,” said FIlm Festival Director Christi Hille. “We are again celebrating local and Indiana filmmakers throughout the festival, but especially on opening night. Every single day is packed with amazing stories from truly talented storytellers from around the world. We are so lucky to be able to bring this event and these amazing stories to the Fort Wayne community.”
SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS
Other festival highlights include an Awards Ceremony on Friday night, followed by a screening of A Long Way From Heaven, which tells the story of Brigham Young University’s (BYU) queer underground, demanding their place in the sunlight. It focuses on the students who lit the school's iconic "Y" in rainbow colors, and the resulting fallout of this event.
Once again, Hobnobben has film blocks featuring Iranian films. On Friday, the Iranian Filmmaker Showcase will highlight rich characters and offer a window into the complexities of Iranian society. Watch as a woman creates a birthday meal for her daughter and adjusts as the awful happens, a young child struggles with his family, a father and daughter attempt to work through generational differences, a woman tries to resist oppression, and another person seeks to find themselves and community in a parking garage.
On Saturday, the Hobnobben schedule features This Block is so LGBTQIA+, which is a vibrant celebration of LGBTQIA+ stories, exploring the unique challenges faced by queer individuals, exploring themes of family dynamics, learning to love yourself, societal misconceptions, personal identity, and the quest for community. There is also a feature-length documentary, Loud Enough, which follows a sexual assault survivor and her family explores and reflects the Herculean effort still required in America for a survivor of sexual violence and their loved ones to hold an attacker and the judicial system accountable. The festival will also once again screen a block of well-loved short films on Saturday Night titled These are a Few of our Favorite Things: Saturday Night Edition!
Hobnobben 2023 will close on Sunday with a screening of This Town Rocked. This local documentary follows a community of misfits who converged in the late 80's and early 90’s Fort Wayne, Indiana to create a punk scene that shook stages, bar floors and changed a city forever.
GET HOBNOBBEN TICKETS
All festival films will be shown at Fort Wayne Cinema Center, 437 E. Berry St., in either the Main Theater or the Spectator Lounge. Workshops will be held in the Fort Wayne Dance Collective studios upstairs in the same building. Festival passes are available for purchase at hobnobben.org. Single day passes are $30 each, except for Opening Night (Thursday, October 3), which is only $15. A 4-day pass is $60, and an All-Access VIP Pass is $150. For those who cannot attend the festival in person, virtual tickets are available.
