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Consultant for education and curator
Country of origin
Germany

Born in 1964, Jakob Hoffmann has been active in church film work since the 1990s, notably as a member of the Jury of Protestant Film Work in Germany. He works full-time in youth outreach. Alongside this, he is an exhibition curator, director of the Yippie ! comic book festival, and publisher of a children’s comic magazine. He lives in Frankfurt am Main.

Articles

Jakob Hoffmann, a member of the Ecumenical Jury in Cannes 2026, comments on the festival from the perspective of a jury member.

Festivals

Leipzig
Leipzig

Current issues

Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin

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