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This it is: the result of our months of research and screenings. The six-day programme of the 42nd IFFF Dortmund+Cologne […]
International Feature Film Competition 2025
Just ahead of International Women’s Day this Saturday, we present the line-up for our International Feature Film Competition for women […]
Focus 2025 & 2026 »Learning and Unlearning Film – Decolonising Cinema«
»Learning and Unlearning Film – Decolonising Cinema« is the Focus theme of both the 2025 and 2026 editions of the […]
Persistent. The Films in Panorama
Exhaustion is everywhere: war, intractable political conflicts and long-standing injustices demand our attention year after year. The films in Panorama […]
Alongside: desired! – film lust & queer
In the queer section, films from Brazil, South Korea and Ghana, among others, deal with the themes of gender, family, […]
Spot on, NRW! presents the Freie Szene Film Dortmund e.V.
In the section Spot on, NRW!, the IFFF Dortmund+Cologne also champions voices from the region. This year, we are focusing […]
IFFF Dortmund+Köln honoured as a fair festival
On 17 February, the Fair Festival Award was presented by the United Services Union (ver.di). This was the second time […]
Zoe Dumas and Lisa Bühl are the first awardees of the festival 2025
Zoe Dumas is the first winner of the Female Gaze – CineOne & sPOTTlight Young Talent Award for Women Directors […]
18 February: »Trailblazers of feminist cinema«
You are invited to celebrate 13 years of women’s film festival industry meeting by IFFF Dortmund+Köln during Berlinale. From grassroot […]
The programme for children aged 12+ approaches the theme of solidarity from different perspectives – societal, social, familial. With minimalist aesthetic, Circle uses the simple metaphor of a circle to ask the big question of why we (should?) conform to social norms without reflecting on them, and what role...
The programme for children aged 12+ approaches the theme of solidarity from different perspectives – societal, social, familial. With minimalist aesthetic, Circle uses the simple metaphor of a circle to ask the big question of why we (should?) conform to social norms without reflecting on them, and what role...
The programme for children aged 12+ approaches the theme of solidarity from different perspectives – societal, social, familial. With minimalist aesthetic, Circle uses the simple metaphor of a circle to ask the big question of why we (should?) conform to social norms without reflecting on them, and what role...
The programme for children aged 12+ approaches the theme of solidarity from different perspectives – societal, social, familial. With minimalist aesthetic, Circle uses the simple metaphor of a circle to ask the big question of why we (should?) conform to social norms without reflecting on them, and what role...
The programme for children aged six and over explores cross-generational connections: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge examines the nature of memories to help his 80-year-old friend who has dementia. Eine Gitarre am Meer also focuses on memories – but even more so on the unifying power of music, which transcends...
The programme for children aged six and over explores cross-generational connections: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge examines the nature of memories to help his 80-year-old friend who has dementia. Eine Gitarre am Meer also focuses on memories – but even more so on the unifying power of music, which transcends...
The programme for children aged six and over explores cross-generational connections: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge examines the nature of memories to help his 80-year-old friend who has dementia. Eine Gitarre am Meer also focuses on memories – but even more so on the unifying power of music, which transcends...
The programme for children aged 12+ approaches the theme of solidarity from different perspectives – societal, social, familial. With minimalist aesthetic, Circle uses the simple metaphor of a circle to ask the big question of why we (should?) conform to social norms without reflecting on them, and what role...
The programme for children aged 12+ approaches the theme of solidarity from different perspectives – societal, social, familial. With minimalist aesthetic, Circle uses the simple metaphor of a circle to ask the big question of why we (should?) conform to social norms without reflecting on them, and what role...
The programme for children aged 12+ approaches the theme of solidarity from different perspectives – societal, social, familial. With minimalist aesthetic, Circle uses the simple metaphor of a circle to ask the big question of why we (should?) conform to social norms without reflecting on them, and what role...
The programme for children aged 12+ approaches the theme of solidarity from different perspectives – societal, social, familial. With minimalist aesthetic, Circle uses the simple metaphor of a circle to ask the big question of why we (should?) conform to social norms without reflecting on them, and what role...
The films for kids aged 10+ focus on themes of growth, change and resilience. The atmospheric and poetic Children of the Bird – with its vibrant, childlike animation – depicts the delicate balance between creation and destruction and the complex relationship between man and nature. In Warrior Heart, Vilja...
The films for kids aged 10+ focus on themes of growth, change and resilience. The atmospheric and poetic Children of the Bird – with its vibrant, childlike animation – depicts the delicate balance between creation and destruction and the complex relationship between man and nature. In Warrior Heart, Vilja...
The films for kids aged 10+ focus on themes of growth, change and resilience. The atmospheric and poetic Children of the Bird – with its vibrant, childlike animation – depicts the delicate balance between creation and destruction and the complex relationship between man and nature. In Warrior Heart, Vilja...
The films for kids aged 10+ focus on themes of growth, change and resilience. The atmospheric and poetic Children of the Bird – with its vibrant, childlike animation – depicts the delicate balance between creation and destruction and the complex relationship between man and nature. In Warrior Heart, Vilja...
A message from a friend leaves Pati in shock. After her laptop is stolen, a hacker sends nude photos of her to contacts in her address book. The hacker confronts Pati directly, demanding money in exchange for not distributing the images more widely. In a state of mental turmoil,...
The protagonists in the programme for kids aged eight and above are bold, unconventional and strong-willed. Elisa (Yo Voy Conmigo), Léontine (Léontine en vacances, Le bateau de Léontine) and Adeline (Das Mädchen und die Riesin – Adeline tanzt Krump) each embrace their own form of expressive non-conformity. While Elisa...
The protagonists in the programme for kids aged eight and above are bold, unconventional and strong-willed. Elisa (Yo Voy Conmigo), Léontine (Léontine en vacances, Le bateau de Léontine) and Adeline (Das Mädchen und die Riesin – Adeline tanzt Krump) each embrace their own form of expressive non-conformity. While Elisa...
The protagonists in the programme for kids aged eight and above are bold, unconventional and strong-willed. Elisa (Yo Voy Conmigo), Léontine (Léontine en vacances, Le bateau de Léontine) and Adeline (Das Mädchen und die Riesin – Adeline tanzt Krump) each embrace their own form of expressive non-conformity. While Elisa...
The protagonists in the programme for kids aged eight and above are bold, unconventional and strong-willed. Elisa (Yo Voy Conmigo), Léontine (Léontine en vacances, Le bateau de Léontine) and Adeline (Das Mädchen und die Riesin – Adeline tanzt Krump) each embrace their own form of expressive non-conformity. While Elisa...
The protagonists in the programme for kids aged eight and above are bold, unconventional and strong-willed. Elisa (Yo Voy Conmigo), Léontine (Léontine en vacances, Le bateau de Léontine) and Adeline (Das Mädchen und die Riesin – Adeline tanzt Krump) each embrace their own form of expressive non-conformity. While Elisa...
Rachid (14+ programme) also struggles with family expectations. Fun-loving and naïve, he stumbles from one white lie to the next, trying to live up to the culturally and religiously influenced expectations of his Moroccan-born parents while searching for a job in his home country of Belgium. Also caught between...
Rachid (14+ programme) also struggles with family expectations. Fun-loving and naïve, he stumbles from one white lie to the next, trying to live up to the culturally and religiously influenced expectations of his Moroccan-born parents while searching for a job in his home country of Belgium. Also caught between...
Rachid (14+ programme) also struggles with family expectations. Fun-loving and naïve, he stumbles from one white lie to the next, trying to live up to the culturally and religiously influenced expectations of his Moroccan-born parents while searching for a job in his home country of Belgium. Also caught between...
Rachid (14+ programme) also struggles with family expectations. Fun-loving and naïve, he stumbles from one white lie to the next, trying to live up to the culturally and religiously influenced expectations of his Moroccan-born parents while searching for a job in his home country of Belgium. Also caught between...
To this day, the remains of tens of thousands of people from former colonies are held in German museums, with little hope of identification or repatriation. For the Tanzanian families Mbao and Kayaa, the theft of their ancestors’ bones – taken to Germany during the colonial era for racist...
The protagonists in these three films are constantly in motion – advancing and retreating, bodies moving in rhythm, or breaking free from it. Movements link the three films, which explore how ideas of nationhood and the history of the queer movement shape our sense of belonging. The programme opens...
The protagonists in these three films are constantly in motion – advancing and retreating, bodies moving in rhythm, or breaking free from it. Movements link the three films, which explore how ideas of nationhood and the history of the queer movement shape our sense of belonging. The programme opens...
The protagonists in these three films are constantly in motion – advancing and retreating, bodies moving in rhythm, or breaking free from it. Movements link the three films, which explore how ideas of nationhood and the history of the queer movement shape our sense of belonging. The programme opens...
The protagonists in these three films are constantly in motion – advancing and retreating, bodies moving in rhythm, or breaking free from it. Movements link the three films, which explore how ideas of nationhood and the history of the queer movement shape our sense of belonging. The programme opens...
Set in rural Assam, this intimate sequel to Village Rockstars (2016) revisits Dhunu, now a determined 17-year-old navigating the hardships of adulthood. Torn between her dreams of becoming a guitarist and the demands of everyday survival, she shoulders the burden of caring for her ailing mother while enduring the...
Set in Angola in 1961, quarry worker Domingos Xavier is a devoted husband and father who likes to play football with his kids after shifts. The film shows a young couple, very much in love, going about their everyday business. Through conversations with work colleagues, Domingos becomes more politicised,...
Love your city – that’s rule number one in Jürgen Wiebicke’s Erste Hilfe für Demokratie-Retter (First Aid for Democracy Saviours). With this popular Specials programme, the city of Dortmund itself becomes the big screen. We are taking our mobile cinema to the city centre and screening films on the...
A message from a friend leaves Pati in shock. After her laptop is stolen, a hacker sends nude photos of her to contacts in her address book. The hacker confronts Pati directly, demanding money in exchange for not distributing the images more widely. In a state of mental turmoil,...
The protagonists in the programme for kids aged eight and above are bold, unconventional and strong-willed. Elisa (Yo Voy Conmigo), Léontine (Léontine en vacances, Le bateau de Léontine) and Adeline (Das Mädchen und die Riesin – Adeline tanzt Krump) each embrace their own form of expressive non-conformity. While Elisa...
The protagonists in the programme for kids aged eight and above are bold, unconventional and strong-willed. Elisa (Yo Voy Conmigo), Léontine (Léontine en vacances, Le bateau de Léontine) and Adeline (Das Mädchen und die Riesin – Adeline tanzt Krump) each embrace their own form of expressive non-conformity. While Elisa...
The protagonists in the programme for kids aged eight and above are bold, unconventional and strong-willed. Elisa (Yo Voy Conmigo), Léontine (Léontine en vacances, Le bateau de Léontine) and Adeline (Das Mädchen und die Riesin – Adeline tanzt Krump) each embrace their own form of expressive non-conformity. While Elisa...
The protagonists in the programme for kids aged eight and above are bold, unconventional and strong-willed. Elisa (Yo Voy Conmigo), Léontine (Léontine en vacances, Le bateau de Léontine) and Adeline (Das Mädchen und die Riesin – Adeline tanzt Krump) each embrace their own form of expressive non-conformity. While Elisa...
The protagonists in the programme for kids aged eight and above are bold, unconventional and strong-willed. Elisa (Yo Voy Conmigo), Léontine (Léontine en vacances, Le bateau de Léontine) and Adeline (Das Mädchen und die Riesin – Adeline tanzt Krump) each embrace their own form of expressive non-conformity. While Elisa...
Rachid (14+ programme) also struggles with family expectations. Fun-loving and naïve, he stumbles from one white lie to the next, trying to live up to the culturally and religiously influenced expectations of his Moroccan-born parents while searching for a job in his home country of Belgium. Also caught between...
Rachid (14+ programme) also struggles with family expectations. Fun-loving and naïve, he stumbles from one white lie to the next, trying to live up to the culturally and religiously influenced expectations of his Moroccan-born parents while searching for a job in his home country of Belgium. Also caught between...
Rachid (14+ programme) also struggles with family expectations. Fun-loving and naïve, he stumbles from one white lie to the next, trying to live up to the culturally and religiously influenced expectations of his Moroccan-born parents while searching for a job in his home country of Belgium. Also caught between...
Rachid (14+ programme) also struggles with family expectations. Fun-loving and naïve, he stumbles from one white lie to the next, trying to live up to the culturally and religiously influenced expectations of his Moroccan-born parents while searching for a job in his home country of Belgium. Also caught between...
To this day, the remains of tens of thousands of people from former colonies are held in German museums, with little hope of identification or repatriation. For the Tanzanian families Mbao and Kayaa, the theft of their ancestors’ bones – taken to Germany during the colonial era for racist...
Lecture with film clips (English) and discussion (English & German)
»In my presentation I will engage in a ›conversation‹ with the 2023 documentary film Între revoluții (Between Revolutions), directed by Vlad Petri and written together with Lavinia Braniște. The film offers a poetic reflection on the in/visibility of female queer...
Artist and mother Pia Antonia Klinkhammer shares her thoughts on art, self-expression and the struggles for recognition as an artist with art students. Her rebellious paintings – characterised by deliberate breaks with bourgeois conventions – remain largely hidden from public view. However, thanks to the students’ documentation of her...
Based on a performative conversation around a table, Female Walk follows the gradual emancipation of a young woman. Five figures embody the persistent echoes of patriarchal gender norms. Through close observation and self-distancing, the protagonist begins to recognise the structures that extend far beyond the conversation. Her irritation evolves into...
Last Night is a chamber play-like film that explores interpersonal relationships. Set in the near future, a diverse group of people gathers in a long-closed bar to escape the heat and indulge in excessive drinking. What begins as an innocent disco dance evolves into a sentimental polonaise, escalating tensions...
Festivaltrailer 2025
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IFFF Dortmund+Köln sees film as an expanded concept that doesn’t restrict the screening of films to classical cinema. The festival advocates showing films in all kinds of formats. And so, on top of the festival’s core programme, it has a film programme specific to each year, and features regular collaborations, holds talks and panel discussions, artistic projects and interventions in public spaces as well as book publications.
World Views
As the name suggests, the World Views series offers a broad selection of films from many different countries and cultures. The themes of the series are openness, understanding, tolerance and forms of dialogue that embrace diversity.
Moreifs-begegnung
The ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln and IFFF Dortmund+Köln have joined forces, tapping their synergies to raise awareness of the work of women directors in the cultural sector and at film schools.
MoreArt on the MOve
Art on the MOve combines visual art from the collection of the Museum Ostwall (MO) with contemporary author films.
MoreIndustry get-together
Since 2013, IFFF Dortmund+Köln has organised panel discussions and network meetings at the Berlinale in Berlin.
MoreCollaborations
IFFF Dortmund+Köln collaborates with various different partners and institutions right throughout the year.
MorePublications
IFFF Dortmund+Köln sees cinema and film in a broader context. Artistic residencies, book publications and art workshops are among the festival’s regular projects happening right throughout the year.
MoreDr. Maxa Zoller
Artistic Director
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Christina Essenberger
Festival Administrator
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Christian Liemke
Organisation | Print Coordination
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Stefanie Görtz
Head of programme and curator Feature Film Competition | Public relations
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Jessica Manstetten
Curator The Film All-Nighter
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Maxi Braun
Public relations
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Marieke Steinhoff
Curator: Panorama
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Betty Schiel
Curator Focus
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