Celebrations & festivals in Frankfurt 2025

Frankfurt is a city that invents reasons to celebrate all year round, not just in the sense of parties and stage shows, but in the true festival sense: multi-day cultural events where a city takes a deep breath, comes together and remembers things for which everyday life otherwise leaves no room. The Museumsuferfest on the last weekend in August is proof that Frankfurt knows what it has: Every year, the Museumsufer and the adjacent museums are transformed into a huge festival area with stage productions, cultural programs, installations and the relaxed city feeling that you usually only get on vacation, with Free admission to all museums . If you love festivals where images are moved and cinema meets art and technology, you should check out the B3 Biennale des Bewegten Bildes in October, a festival that brings together film, television, games, design and digital culture and regularly takes place at venues such as the Filmhaus Frankfurt, the Naxos-Halle and other venues in the city. Every year, the Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International is dedicated to socially relevant topics and shows international film productions that cannot be found on any streaming platform in cinemas and cultural spaces in the city, in an atmosphere that is much more human than any large multiplex cinema. Nippon Connection, the world's largest Japanese film festival, also takes place annually in Frankfurt and brings Japanese cinema, culture, cuisine and art programs to various venues in the city, making it one of the most unusual and at the same time most popular cultural festivals in Frankfurt's annual calendar. The Forward Festival, the creative festival for design, advertising and the digital creative industry, is coming to Frankfurt for the first time in 2026, bringing a format to the city that has been a must-attend event for creative minds in other major German cities for years. In addition, there is the Wäldchestag in the city forest, the city's oldest folk festival and a real Frankfurt cultural moment, as well as numerous other annual festivals that fill city life between spring and fall and are so diverse that there is at least one must-attend event for every taste. In short: in Frankfurt, you don't have to look far to find a festival that really picks you up, you just have to look in time, and that's exactly what the event calendar on Rausgegangen is for, with all the upcoming festival events in Frankfurt at a glance, so you don't miss an edition that you would have liked to have remembered afterwards.