Sunrise on the Reaping

The trailer

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The story

This is a Hunger Games story, set a generation before Katniss Everdeen. It goes back to the fiftieth Hunger Games, the Second Quarter Quell, when every district had to send twice its usual tributes. Among them is a sixteen-year-old from District 12, Haymitch Abernathy, whom readers later met as Katniss's mentor in the original trilogy.

Book and franchise

This is the newest film in the Hunger Games series, released in Germany as Die Tribute von Panem. It adapts Suzanne Collins' novel Sunrise on the Reaping, published in 2025. Francis Lawrence directs, as he did Catching Fire, both Mockingjay films and The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Ralph Fiennes plays a younger President Snow.

The cast

Joseph Zada

Haymitch Abernathy

Whitney Peak

Lenore Dove Baird

Mckenna Grace

Maysilee Donner

Ralph Fiennes

President Coriolanus Snow

Jesse Plemons

Plutarch Heavensbee

Elle Fanning

Effie Trinket

Maya Hawke

Wiress

Lili Taylor

Mags Flanagan

Where to see it

This is an English-language film. When it opens, KinoNow shows which cinemas near you play it in the original version and which play the German dub, so you can pick the screening you want.

Common questions

When does it open in Germany?

19 November 2026, distributed by LEONINE Studios. The US release is 20 November.

What is it based on?

Suzanne Collins' 2025 novel Sunrise on the Reaping, a Hunger Games prequel.

Who directed it?

Francis Lawrence, who directed Catching Fire, both Mockingjay films and The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

Whose story is it?

A young Haymitch Abernathy, in the fiftieth Hunger Games, the Second Quarter Quell in which each district sends twice its tributes.

What is the age rating?

FSK 12, as stated on LEONINE's own German trailer.

Can I see it in the original language?

Yes, at cinemas that run the original version (OV) or the original with subtitles (OmU). KinoNow marks which showings are which.