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FAIR FESTIVAL. We are particularly pleased with this brand new rating from the AG Festival Work in the ver.di union […]
Download our festival catalog
Our catalog with all content and detailed texts on the entire programme of the IFFF Dortmund+Köln 2021 is ready! From […]
July 10, 10:30 p.m. UNAPOLOGETIC is our contribution to the Cologne Cinema Nights
Do you enjoy the cinema as much as we do? At the wonderful Kölner Kino Nächten (Cologne Cinema Nights) we […]
The Award Winners of 38th IFFF Dortmund+Köln 2021
With the online award ceremony, the most unusual edition to date in our almost 40-year festival history has just come […]
Award Ceremony starts tonight at 7 p.m.
The sixth and last day of the festival has dawned – the whole team is excited. After comfortable home screenings, […]
Morning Briefing, Live-Talks & Spatial Chat – daily programme during the festival week
At the 38th edition of the IFFF Dortmund+Köln the extraordinary films by female directors will take center stage as usual. […]
Discussion of the residency fellows of the Fasia Jansen Residency
Since October 2020, Princela Biyaa and Marny Garcia Mommertz have been examining the life of singer-songwriter and peace activist Fasia […]
Director Monika Treut visits Schauburg Dortmund
On the Saturday of the Festival, Monika Treut, director and jury member in the International Feature Film Competition, will be […]
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Luisa is an architect, but in her spare time also teaches art classes to children and teenagers. One day she finds 17-year-old...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Three young musicians from an Iranian province want to enter a competition in Tehran. It could be just the chance the band...
PLEASE NOTE: Becoming Animal runs only on June 17 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can't buy tickets for this particular screening online. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
At Ndewa’s suggestion, four childhood friends meet up after the funeral of their former orphanage director. At 39, Ndewa is the oldest...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
At the age of 48, Canela comes out as a trans woman. She overcomes the challenges of everyday life and consults friends...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Donna Haraway is a biologist, scientific historian and an accomplished storyteller. She has inspired people all over the world with her life-affirming cyborg and trans-species feminism. In this entertaining conversation, she shares her stories and invites us to rediscover octopuses, spiders, dogs and their relationship to each other and...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»He was happy on his isle of Ithaca. His sandals knew every path. He could walk with his eyes closed. Ulysses felt...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Finding Sally is the awe-inspiring culmination of the director’s quest to piece together fragments of a diasporan trail. Dawit grew up in...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
After the death of her husband, 70-year-old Claudina has to start over and she moves in with her daughter and grandson. She...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: Genderation runs only on June 19 at 8.15 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for this particular...
PLEASE NOTE: Gendernauts runs only on June 19 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for this particular screening. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the contact...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
From 1962 to 1991, one country alone provided the winner of the women’s world chess championship every single year: Georgia. Nona Gaprindashvili...
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
A homosexual teenager from Syria, an artist with Afghan roots and an Iranian-born beer brewer »in a mixture of socially relevant narrative...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Crying was a powerful reason for making a political film.«
Milan as quoted by Ana in Landscapes of Resistance
Crickets chirping, a playful kitten,...
Festival catalog 2021
Our catalog with all content and detailed texts on the entire programme of the IFFF Dortmund+Köln 2021 is ready! You can purchase it with a volume of 220 pages and texts in German and English for a fee of 10 €. After the purchase you will receive a link to the PDF download. Upon request, you can also receive a printed copy by post.
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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 is a collaboration between Museum Ostwall and IFFF Dortmund+Köln. Based on the current collection presentation »Body & Soul« we draw on artworks and films to stimulate discussions on topics like age, body optimisation, black self-empowerment or gender.
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
Curator: Feature Film Competition
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Sonja Hofmann
Curator: Feature Film Competition
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Jessica Manstetten
Curator: Panorama
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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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