We say THANK YOU!

The KLAPPE AUF! crew is back. Thanks to the support of AKTION MENSCH, we can now plan our next festival edition. The next festival will take place in April 2025. There will be a few small changes.

You can submit short films again from mid-January 2024. You can find more detailed information here on our website. Or visit us on our INSTA channel.

There you can also see what else we’re up to. We are planning further activities and events throughout the year. Why don’t you take a look?

Welcome

KLAPPE AUF! is unique, as it focuses on the concept that our festival’s film selection and moderation used, be chosen and presented by a variety of people with and without disability. The organisation and structure of the programs is also designed on a similar basis. The festival takes place every two years, held in the city of Hamburg, Germany. The highly esteemed director, Fatih Akin, is the festival’s main patron.

It is our aim to create the greatest level of accessibility to our festival. This means that all of the films presented will be done so with Captions for the hearing impaired, as well as Audio Description made available for the visually impaired. The Audio Description is directly recorded by voice-over-artists and can be heard with headphones. The festival will also be attended by Sign Language Interpreters and Captioners (STTRs). All venues will be barrier-free and wheelchair friendly.