Film Festival: Stummfilmtage Bonn, August 7-17, 2025

The Bonn Summer Cinema – International Silent Film Festival is back for its 41st year, on August 7th to 17th, 2025! 21 “newly restored classics, rediscoveries, [and] exotic rarities” will be screened outdoors in the Arkadenhof at the University of Bonn, accompanied by live music. Many of the films will also be available for streaming online.

The festival will be screening several films by women pioneers, including Suspense (1913) written and directed by Lois Weber; The Boatswain’s Mate (1924) starring Florence Turner and written by Lydia Hayward; Tu m’appartiens! (1929) featuring Francesca Bertini; as well as two films written by unhistoricized pioneers, What’s Up With Nanette? (1929) by Marie Luise Droop and The Buddenbrooks (1923) by Luise Heilborn-Körbitz. View the full program here.

Lois Weber

Florence Turner

Lydia Hayward

Francesca Bertini