We are presenting Faruk at World Views Cologne.

Aslı Özge’s hybrid of fiction and documentary celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale in February 2024, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize for best film in the Panorama section. In April 2025, it was screened as part of the International Feature Film Competition at the IFFF Dortmund+Köln, though only in Dortmund. So it’s overdue that we show it in Cologne too.

The filmmaker asks: »How do places shape us?«
Filmed over seven years on location, Faruk tells the story of an elderly man whose plans to spend his twilight years in peace are thwarted by gentrification. The portrayal of Istanbul’s socio-cultural changes serves as the backdrop against which Aslı Özge explores the connections between people and their environment.

FARUK
Director: Aslı Özge
Germany/Turkey/France 2024 | 97′

Free admission.

The film will be shown in the original language with German and English subtitles.

4th October | 12 pm | Odeon Kino Köln, Severinstraße 81, 50678 Köln

The film will be shown as part of our monthly »World Views« film series. People with and without an international history, women with refugee experience, their families and anyone interested in excellent, often rarely shown international films directed by women are warmly invited to the programme.

More information on the World Views programme in Dortmund and Cologne