Festivallounge

For 2017 LICHTER again takes place in one of Frankfurt´s most important cultural hot spots. The Mousonturm will bring together the festival cinema and lounge for the first time ever in the LICHTER history.

So film, culture and Frankfurt´s daily live become as close as never before.


During the Festival you can find the following at the festival lounge (Dates will be announced soon):

  • Accreditation / Office
  • Lectures an conferences
  • LICHTER Art Award
  • Festivalbar, café and restaurant

Opening hours festivallounge and accreditation

Opening hours Festivallounge:

Tuesday, 28th March: 7:30 p. m. – midnight
Wednesday, 29th March: 4:00 p. m. – midnight
Thursday, 30th March: 4:00 p. m. – midnight
Friday, 31st March: 3:00 p. m. – midnight
Saturday, 01st April: 2:30 p. m. – midnight
Sunday, 02nd April: 1:30 p. m. – midnight

Opening hours accreditation:

Tuesday, 28th March: 5:00 p. m. – 11:30 p. m.
Wednesday, 29th March: 4:00 p. m. – 11:30 p. m.
Thursday, 30th March: 4:00 p. m. – 10:00 p. m.
Friday, 31st March: 3:00 p. m. – 10:00 p. m.
Saturday, 01st April: 2:30 p. m. – 10:00 p. m.
Sunday, 02nd April: 1:30 p. m. – 07:00 p. m.

Panorama Erster Stock © Jean Wlodarski

A short overview of the festivallounges of past festival editons:

During it´s year of founding in 2008 LICHTER was located in Atelierfrankfurt. in 2009 the former “Diamantenbörse” near the midtown.

After the long-term home of LICHTER, ERSTER STOCK, became a victim of demolition work in late 2012, the Festival found a new, airy and generously proportioned home for 2013 in the Mainzer Landstraße.

For 2014 LICHTR took place in the airy and generously proportioned VAU again. The atrium of the impressive building at Mainzer Landstrasse 23, with its brilliant ceiling height of 78 metres provides LICHTER with perfect opportunities for celebrating the moving image in all its facets. With its striking rotunda, the building is well known from international films and was recently the scene for the Finnish Nazi comedy Iron Sky or the documentation Master of the Universe.

2015 LICHTER found it´s home in the center of Frankfurt, where also the FREILUFTKINO Frankfurt took place twice.