Timetable

Programme:

16Apr Film Short film programme 1 | from 4 years Schauburg Dortmund
Short film programme 1 | from 4 years

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Spin & Ella An Vrombaut
Spin & Ella
An Vrombaut
BE
2022
Animation
7’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Lemon and Berry Ilenia Cotardo, Piotr Ficner
Lemon and Berry
Ilenia Cotardo, Piotr Ficner
PL
2022
Animation
3’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Pufferfisch Julia Ocker
Pufferfisch
Julia Ocker
DE
2022
Animation
4’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Sientje Christa Moesker
Sientje
Christa Moesker
NL
1997
Animation
5’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Somni Sonja Rohleder
Somni
Sonja Rohleder
DE
2023
Animation
3’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

16Apr Film Short film programme 3 | from 8 years Filmforum NRW
Short film programme 3 | from 8 years

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Eneris Julie Daems
Eneris
Julie Daems
BE
2023
Documentary
16’
OmeU, dt. eingespr.
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Swing to the Moon Joint Project
Swing to the Moon
Joint Project
FR
2022
Animation
7’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Naturwissenschaft: Können Dinosaurier wieder auferstehen? Cathrine Marchen Asmussen
Naturwissenschaft: Können Dinosaurier wieder auferstehen?
Cathrine Marchen Asmussen
DK
2022
Documentary
16’
OmeU, dt. eingespr.
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Birds Pleix
Birds
Pleix
FR
2006
Music video
3’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

16Apr Film Short film programme 4 | from 10 years Filmforum NRW
Short film programme 4 | from 10 years

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Guest: Karin de Miguel Wessendorf

Death to the Bikini! Justine Gauthier
Death to the Bikini!
Justine Gauthier
CA
2023
Spielfilm
16’
OmeU, dt. eingespr.
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Guest: Karin de Miguel Wessendorf

Kicken wie ein Mädchen Karin de Miguel Wessendorf
Kicken wie ein Mädchen
Karin de Miguel Wessendorf
DE
2023
Dokumentarfilmserie
45’
OF
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Guest: Karin de Miguel Wessendorf

16Apr Film Short film programme 5 | from 14 years Schauburg Dortmund
Short film programme 5 | from 14 years

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Dämmerung Awa Moctar Gueye
Dämmerung
Awa Moctar Gueye
SN
2023
Spielfilm
16’
OmU
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

auf bald, deine Clara Clara Hüneke
auf bald, deine Clara
Clara Hüneke
DE
2022
Animation
7’
OF
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

2 or 3 Things I Don’t Know About Her Sabrina Idiri Chemloul
2 or 3 Things I Don’t Know About Her
Sabrina Idiri Chemloul
FR
2022
Spielfilm
22’
OmU
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Crushed Ella Rocca
Crushed
Ella Rocca
CH
2022
Documentary
8’
OmU
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

16Apr Formfragen Filmhaus Köln
Formfragen

This year, Formfragen is showing a multi-channel video installation at Filmhaus Köln.

Öffnungszeiten:
Di 14-17 pm
Mi 12-19 pm
Do 12-19 pm
Fr 10 am - 19 pm
Sa 10 am - 19 pm
So 10 am - 16 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4pm.

Those Who Kept the Light Nastja Säde Rönkkö
Those Who Kept the Light
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
NO / FI / DK
2022
10-Kanal-Videoinstallation
Audience Award

This year, Formfragen is showing a multi-channel video installation at Filmhaus Köln.

Öffnungszeiten:
Di 14-17 pm
Mi 12-19 pm
Do 12-19 pm
Fr 10 am - 19 pm
Sa 10 am - 19 pm
So 10 am - 16 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4pm.

16Apr19:00 Elbow Aslı Özarslan Cineplex Filmpalast
Elbow
Aslı Özarslan
DE / TR / FR
2024
Spielfilm
86’
OmeU, dt. UT
Audience Award

Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her greatest wish is to have a life, a real future! Despite writing countless applications, she can’t find an apprenticeship and isn’t even invited for an interview. Instead, she’s stuck in a pointless job centre training scheme. On her 18th birthday, Hazal...

17Apr Reas Lola Arias Filmforum NRW
Reas
Lola Arias
AR / DE / CH
2024
Documentary
82’
OmU
desired! – film lust & queer

Set in a former prison in Buenos Aries, this film tells the story of a group of cis and trans people who were all imprisoned in women’s jails in Argentina. The film is based on what was seen and experienced by the protagonists, who enact and fictionalise aspects of...

17Apr Film Short film programme 2 | from 6 years Filmforum NRW
Short film programme 2 | from 6 years

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

In cooperation with DOXS RUHR

To Be Sisters Anne-Sophie Gousset, Clément Céard
To Be Sisters
Anne-Sophie Gousset, Clément Céard
FR
2022
Animation
7’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

In cooperation with DOXS RUHR

Upside Down Dace Rīdūze
Upside Down
Dace Rīdūze
LV
2023
Animation
12’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

In cooperation with DOXS RUHR

Die Sendung mit der Maus: Streiten Katja Engelhardt, Inka Friese
Die Sendung mit der Maus: Streiten
Katja Engelhardt, Inka Friese
DE
2023
Documentary
7’
OF
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

In cooperation with DOXS RUHR

Idodo Ursula Ulmi
Idodo
Ursula Ulmi
CH
2021
Animation
10’
OF
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

In cooperation with DOXS RUHR

What’s Up with the Sky? Irene Iborra
What’s Up with the Sky?
Irene Iborra
ES
2022
Animation
10’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

In cooperation with DOXS RUHR

17Apr Film Short film programme 3 | from 8 years Schauburg Dortmund
Short film programme 3 | from 8 years

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Eneris Julie Daems
Eneris
Julie Daems
BE
2023
Documentary
16’
OmeU, dt. eingespr.
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Swing to the Moon Joint Project
Swing to the Moon
Joint Project
FR
2022
Animation
7’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Naturwissenschaft: Können Dinosaurier wieder auferstehen? Cathrine Marchen Asmussen
Naturwissenschaft: Können Dinosaurier wieder auferstehen?
Cathrine Marchen Asmussen
DK
2022
Documentary
16’
OmeU, dt. eingespr.
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Birds Pleix
Birds
Pleix
FR
2006
Music video
3’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

17Apr11:00 Draw for Change: We are Fire Karen Vázquez Guadarrama Schauburg Dortmund
Draw for Change: We are Fire
Karen Vázquez Guadarrama
MX / BE
2023
Documentary
52’
OmU
Programme for Kids and Young Adults

Mexico is a country firmly in the grip of patriarchal violence. With around ten femicides every day, women in this Central American country face massive danger, while the number of people missing is nearly one hundred thousand. A macho culture, corruption and male power politics also pervade the work...

17Apr Film Short film programme 5 | from 14 years Filmforum NRW
Short film programme 5 | from 14 years

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Dämmerung Awa Moctar Gueye
Dämmerung
Awa Moctar Gueye
SN
2023
Spielfilm
16’
OmU
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

auf bald, deine Clara Clara Hüneke
auf bald, deine Clara
Clara Hüneke
DE
2022
Animation
7’
OF
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

2 or 3 Things I Don’t Know About Her Sabrina Idiri Chemloul
2 or 3 Things I Don’t Know About Her
Sabrina Idiri Chemloul
FR
2022
Spielfilm
22’
OmU
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Crushed Ella Rocca
Crushed
Ella Rocca
CH
2022
Documentary
8’
OmU
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

17Apr Formfragen Filmhaus Köln
Formfragen

This year, Formfragen is showing a multi-channel video installation at Filmhaus Köln.

Öffnungszeiten:
Di 14-17 pm
Mi 12-19 pm
Do 12-19 pm
Fr 10 am - 19 pm
Sa 10 am - 19 pm
So 10 am - 16 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4pm.

Those Who Kept the Light Nastja Säde Rönkkö
Those Who Kept the Light
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
NO / FI / DK
2022
10-Kanal-Videoinstallation
Audience Award

This year, Formfragen is showing a multi-channel video installation at Filmhaus Köln.

Öffnungszeiten:
Di 14-17 pm
Mi 12-19 pm
Do 12-19 pm
Fr 10 am - 19 pm
Sa 10 am - 19 pm
So 10 am - 16 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4pm.

17Apr18:00 Elbow Aslı Özarslan Odeon Köln
Elbow
Aslı Özarslan
DE / TR / FR
2024
Spielfilm
86’
OmeU, dt. UT
Audience Award

Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her greatest wish is to have a life, a real future! Despite writing countless applications, she can’t find an apprenticeship and isn’t even invited for an interview. Instead, she’s stuck in a pointless job centre training scheme. On her 18th birthday, Hazal...

17Apr18:00 Prevenge Alice Lowe Filmhaus Köln
Prevenge
Alice Lowe
UK
2016
Spielfilm
88’
OFe
2024

»Pregnancy is traditionally a world in pastel. Softness, lightness, inherent kindness. And yet here I was experiencing an unexpected vividness and intensity. Inexplicable sadness. Food revulsion. Neon blissful ecstasy. Annoyance. Rage! It was nothing like what I had ever seen portrayed on screen,« says director and main protagonist Alice...

17Apr20:00 Hello Dankness Soda Jerk Filmhaus Köln
Hello Dankness
Soda Jerk
AU
2022
Experimental
70’
OFe
Audience Award

In a stunning collage of hundreds of borrowed film clips, Soda Jerk dissect American society and politics between 2016 and 2021. Taking the form of a suburban musical, the years of Donald Trump’s presidency become a psychotropic horror spectacle. Conspiracy theories take over, hotdogs discuss the clash of civilisations,...

17Apr20:30 Milk Stefanie Kolk Odeon Köln
Milk
Stefanie Kolk
NL
2023
Spielfilm
96’
OmeU, dt. UT
Audience Award

Seldom does a feature film explore the profound significance of breast milk production, a symbol of nurturing life. However, when this process is rendered redundant by a stillbirth, a more contemplative narrative may emerge – one that gently reflects on the concepts of »giving life« and loss, the journey...

17Apr Workshop Teaches of Peaches + getty abortions Filmforum NRW
Teaches of Peaches + getty abortions
Teaches of Peaches Judy Landkammer, Philipp Fussenegger
Teaches of Peaches
Judy Landkammer, Philipp Fussenegger
DE
2024
Documentary
102’
OmU
Audience Award
getty abortions Franzis Kabisch
getty abortions
Franzis Kabisch
DE / AT
2023
Documentary
22’
dt. OmeU
desired! – film lust & queer
18Apr09:00 Draw for Change: We are Fire Karen Vázquez Guadarrama Filmforum NRW
Draw for Change: We are Fire
Karen Vázquez Guadarrama
MX / BE
2023
Documentary
52’
OmU
Programme for Kids and Young Adults

Mexico is a country firmly in the grip of patriarchal violence. With around ten femicides every day, women in this Central American country face massive danger, while the number of people missing is nearly one hundred thousand. A macho culture, corruption and male power politics also pervade the work...

18Apr11:30 Film Do You Speak Film? Schauburg Dortmund
Do You Speak Film?

Young refugees curate a festival programme:

What is a film if it dispenses with dialogue? How can different forms of cinematic expression tell a story and propel the narrative without relying on language? In our »Do You Speak Film?« programme, we showcase short films that are thought-provoking in very different...

18Apr Formfragen Filmhaus Köln
Formfragen

This year, Formfragen is showing a multi-channel video installation at Filmhaus Köln.

Öffnungszeiten:
Di 14-17 pm
Mi 12-19 pm
Do 12-19 pm
Fr 10 am - 19 pm
Sa 10 am - 19 pm
So 10 am - 16 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4pm.

Those Who Kept the Light Nastja Säde Rönkkö
Those Who Kept the Light
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
NO / FI / DK
2022
10-Kanal-Videoinstallation
Audience Award

This year, Formfragen is showing a multi-channel video installation at Filmhaus Köln.

Öffnungszeiten:
Di 14-17 pm
Mi 12-19 pm
Do 12-19 pm
Fr 10 am - 19 pm
Sa 10 am - 19 pm
So 10 am - 16 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4pm.

18Apr13:00 Workshop Space for cinema – cinema as a space: Cinema culture in NRW today Filmhaus Köln
Space for cinema – cinema as a space: Cinema culture in NRW today

NRW Film Culture Network theme day

What does cinema mean today? What is cinema today? Cinema is a social setting offering an aesthetic, collective experience. But what does cinema work actually involve? Keeping a balance between cinema releases and film series, event formats and weekly schedules, target group work and...

18Apr16:30 Scrapper Charlotte Regan Odeon Köln
Scrapper
Charlotte Regan
GB
2023
Spielfilm
84’
OFe
Audience Award

A »scrapper« may embody improvisational determination and a fighting spirit in the face of adversity. Other meanings refer to dealing with bits of scrap, collecting unwanted items, or, like scrapbooking, a form of memory bricolage – preserving, archiving. 12-year-old Georgie exemplifies scrappiness to the core as she maneuvers through...

18Apr18:00 Copa 71 Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine Schauburg Dortmund
Copa 71
Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine
UK
2023
Documentary
91’
OmU
Specials

»Why haven’t I seen this before?« In the first scene of Copa 71, American international footballer Brandi Chastain stares at her tablet in amazement. She is watching footage of the first ever international women’s football tournament in Mexico City in 1971, Copa 71. Why is it that one of...

18Apr18:00 Silent Sun of Russia Sibylla Tuxen Filmforum NRW
Silent Sun of Russia
Sibylla Tuxen
DK
2023
Documentary
71’
OmeU
Audience Award

»Do you think we could have changed something if everyone had stayed?«, asks one of the film’s characters. A direct answer to this question can never be found, but it is one that reverberates throughout the film, as well as through the conscience of the Russians who have left...

18Apr19:00 Dry Ground Burning Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós KHM Aula
Dry Ground Burning
Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós
BR / PT
2022
Spielfilm
153’
OmeU
Audience Award

Fresh out of prison, Léa returns to the Sol Nascente favela and joins a formidable gang of women led by her half-sister Chitara. During Léa’s absence, the women have built up a lucrative business as gasolinheiras, illegally extracting oil from an underground pipeline and refining it themselves as petrol....

18Apr19:30 Tiger Stripes Amanda Nell Eu Filmhaus Köln
Tiger Stripes
Amanda Nell Eu
TW / SG / FR / DE / NL / ID / QA
2023
Spielfilm
95’
OmU
Audience Award

Twelve-year-old Zaffan leads a carefree existence, despite the constraints imposed on her by her strict teachers and parents. She likes to make funny TikTok clips, to fight and make up with her girlfriends. They swear not to keep secrets from each other and boldly defy customs and religious norms...

18Apr20:30 Chuck Chuck Baby Janis Pugh Filmforum NRW
Chuck Chuck Baby
Janis Pugh
UK
2023
Musical, Spielfilm
102’
OmU
Audience Award

In a small town in North Wales, Helen lives together with her husband, his new partner, their child and her mother-in-law Gwen. She looks after Gwen and works in the chicken factory, Chuck Chuck Baby. Her life revolves around the factory and their terraced house with its red bricks...

18Apr20:30 City of Wind Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir Odeon Köln
City of Wind
Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
FR / MN / PT / NL / DE / QA
2023
Spielfilm
103’
OmeU
Audience Award

Roughly half of Mongolia’s 3.2 million people reside in the capital Ulaanbaatar, a sprawling maze of roads and jagged skyscrapers. A quarter of the populace are nomadic, dwelling on the vast steppe in traditional yurts, many still adhering to the ancient shamanistic, animistic religion of Tengrism. Echoing its title,...

19Apr Film Short film programme 1 | from 4 years Filmforum NRW
Short film programme 1 | from 4 years

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Spin & Ella An Vrombaut
Spin & Ella
An Vrombaut
BE
2022
Animation
7’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Lemon and Berry Ilenia Cotardo, Piotr Ficner
Lemon and Berry
Ilenia Cotardo, Piotr Ficner
PL
2022
Animation
3’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Pufferfisch Julia Ocker
Pufferfisch
Julia Ocker
DE
2022
Animation
4’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Sientje Christa Moesker
Sientje
Christa Moesker
NL
1997
Animation
5’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Somni Sonja Rohleder
Somni
Sonja Rohleder
DE
2023
Animation
3’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

19Apr Film Short film programme 2 | from 6 years Schauburg Dortmund
Short film programme 2 | from 6 years

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

In cooperation with DOXS RUHR

To Be Sisters Anne-Sophie Gousset, Clément Céard
To Be Sisters
Anne-Sophie Gousset, Clément Céard
FR
2022
Animation
7’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

In cooperation with DOXS RUHR

Upside Down Dace Rīdūze
Upside Down
Dace Rīdūze
LV
2023
Animation
12’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

In cooperation with DOXS RUHR

Die Sendung mit der Maus: Streiten Katja Engelhardt, Inka Friese
Die Sendung mit der Maus: Streiten
Katja Engelhardt, Inka Friese
DE
2023
Documentary
7’
OF
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

In cooperation with DOXS RUHR

Idodo Ursula Ulmi
Idodo
Ursula Ulmi
CH
2021
Animation
10’
OF
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

In cooperation with DOXS RUHR

What’s Up with the Sky? Irene Iborra
What’s Up with the Sky?
Irene Iborra
ES
2022
Animation
10’
OW
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

In cooperation with DOXS RUHR

19Apr Formfragen Filmhaus Köln
Formfragen

This year, Formfragen is showing a multi-channel video installation at Filmhaus Köln.

Öffnungszeiten:
Di 14-17 pm
Mi 12-19 pm
Do 12-19 pm
Fr 10 am - 19 pm
Sa 10 am - 19 pm
So 10 am - 16 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4pm.

Those Who Kept the Light Nastja Säde Rönkkö
Those Who Kept the Light
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
NO / FI / DK
2022
10-Kanal-Videoinstallation
Audience Award

This year, Formfragen is showing a multi-channel video installation at Filmhaus Köln.

Öffnungszeiten:
Di 14-17 pm
Mi 12-19 pm
Do 12-19 pm
Fr 10 am - 19 pm
Sa 10 am - 19 pm
So 10 am - 16 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4pm.

19Apr Film Short film programme 4 | from 10 years Schauburg Dortmund
Short film programme 4 | from 10 years

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Guest: Karin de Miguel Wessendorf

Death to the Bikini! Justine Gauthier
Death to the Bikini!
Justine Gauthier
CA
2023
Spielfilm
16’
OmeU, dt. eingespr.
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Guest: Karin de Miguel Wessendorf

Kicken wie ein Mädchen Karin de Miguel Wessendorf
Kicken wie ein Mädchen
Karin de Miguel Wessendorf
DE
2023
Dokumentarfilmserie
45’
OF
2024

Contact person for advice on individual programmes and for booking screenings for daycare groups and school classes is Jule Murmann: kinderundjugend@frauenfilmfest.com

Guest: Karin de Miguel Wessendorf

19Apr11:00 Workshop Workshop: Pretty Deadly Self Defense KHM Aula
Workshop: Pretty Deadly Self Defense

A practical self-defence course against zombies and slashers, in which the boundary between screen and audience is blurred. Out-of-control monsters going berserk with rage and calculated anger in slasher films. Using film clips from classic horror films, participants under the guidance of Susie Kahlich will learn which moves to...

19Apr11:30 Film Do You Speak Film? Filmforum NRW
Do You Speak Film?

Young refugees curate a festival programme:

What is a film if it dispenses with dialogue? How can different forms of cinematic expression tell a story and propel the narrative without relying on language? In our »Do You Speak Film?« programme, we showcase short films that are thought-provoking in very different...

19Apr14:00 Die feige Schönheit Greta Isabella Conte (DoP) Odeon Köln
Die feige Schönheit
Greta Isabella Conte (DoP)

Statement of the Jury (Yoliswa von Dallwitz, Antonia Kilian, Agnesh Pakozdi):

Greta Isabella Conte’s camera work for the film Die feige Schönheit impressively demonstrates her ability to create visually stunning images with great artistry and the bold use of special framing techniques. This outstanding work is evidence of excellent collaboration...

19Apr King Coal + Der Wind nimmt die mit Filmforum NRW
King Coal + Der Wind nimmt die mit
King Coal Elaine McMillion Sheldon
King Coal
Elaine McMillion Sheldon
US
2023
Documentary
80’
OmU
Audience Award
The Wind Is Taking Them Ann Carolin Renninger
The Wind Is Taking Them
Ann Carolin Renninger
DE
2023
Documentary
24’
dt. OmeU
Panorama
19Apr16:00 Workshop Talk: FLINTA* for Peace Filmhaus Köln
Talk: FLINTA* for Peace

The IFFF Dortmund+Cologne welcomes the new Cologne-based group Palestinians and Jews for Peace to the festival. The feminist group, which was founded by friends Kristina Bublevskaya and Zeynep Karaosman shortly after 7 October, consists of Palestinian, Jewish and other solidarity and emancipatory friends who are committed to a differentiated...

19Apr16:30 Life Unrehearsed Jieun BANPARK Odeon Köln
Life Unrehearsed
Jieun BANPARK
KR / DE
2022
Documentary
80’
OmU
Audience Award

The two protagonists in this film met and fell in love many years previously during a retreat. They both came as nurses from Korea to Germany, and today they live together in Berlin. The director Jieun BANPARK followed their daily lives for a while, getting to know parts of...

19Apr Film Short Film Programme: Raging silent film pioneers Filmforum NRW
Short Film Programme: Raging silent film pioneers

These rarities from the early years of cinema are revenge films of a truly special kind. They utilise the sensational new capabilities of cinema to depict supernatural phenomena and evil forces. They demonstrate the liberating potential of raw female rage. Rage and horror films avant la lettre.

Gunda Gottschalk
Violin and...

The Dairymaid’s Revenge Frank S. Armitage
The Dairymaid’s Revenge
Frank S. Armitage
US
1899
Silent film
1’
OW
2024

These rarities from the early years of cinema are revenge films of a truly special kind. They utilise the sensational new capabilities of cinema to depict supernatural phenomena and evil forces. They demonstrate the liberating potential of raw female rage. Rage and horror films avant la lettre.

Gunda Gottschalk
Violin and...

La revanche des esprits Émile Cohl
La revanche des esprits
Émile Cohl
FR
1911
Silent film
5’
OW
Focus: Rage & Horror

These rarities from the early years of cinema are revenge films of a truly special kind. They utilise the sensational new capabilities of cinema to depict supernatural phenomena and evil forces. They demonstrate the liberating potential of raw female rage. Rage and horror films avant la lettre.

Gunda Gottschalk
Violin and...

The Doll's Revenge Lewin Fitzhamon
The Doll's Revenge
Lewin Fitzhamon
UK
1907
Silent film
3’
OW
Focus: Rage & Horror

These rarities from the early years of cinema are revenge films of a truly special kind. They utilise the sensational new capabilities of cinema to depict supernatural phenomena and evil forces. They demonstrate the liberating potential of raw female rage. Rage and horror films avant la lettre.

Gunda Gottschalk
Violin and...

La paresse de Polycarpe Ernest Servaès
La paresse de Polycarpe
Ernest Servaès
FR
1914
Silent film
4’
OW
Focus: Rage & Horror

These rarities from the early years of cinema are revenge films of a truly special kind. They utilise the sensational new capabilities of cinema to depict supernatural phenomena and evil forces. They demonstrate the liberating potential of raw female rage. Rage and horror films avant la lettre.

Gunda Gottschalk
Violin and...

Eine Fliegenjagd oder die Rache der Frau Schultze Eugen Skladanowsky
Eine Fliegenjagd oder die Rache der Frau Schultze
Eugen Skladanowsky
DE
1905
Silent film
8’
OW
Focus: Rage & Horror

These rarities from the early years of cinema are revenge films of a truly special kind. They utilise the sensational new capabilities of cinema to depict supernatural phenomena and evil forces. They demonstrate the liberating potential of raw female rage. Rage and horror films avant la lettre.

Gunda Gottschalk
Violin and...

The Mechanical Man André Deed, Valentina Frascaroli (Artist)
The Mechanical Man
André Deed, Valentina Frascaroli (Artist)
IT
1921
Silent film
40’
OW
Focus: Rage & Horror

These rarities from the early years of cinema are revenge films of a truly special kind. They utilise the sensational new capabilities of cinema to depict supernatural phenomena and evil forces. They demonstrate the liberating potential of raw female rage. Rage and horror films avant la lettre.

Gunda Gottschalk
Violin and...

Jane and the Spiders Roméo Bosetti
Jane and the Spiders
Roméo Bosetti
FR
1912
Silent film
3’
OW
2024

These rarities from the early years of cinema are revenge films of a truly special kind. They utilise the sensational new capabilities of cinema to depict supernatural phenomena and evil forces. They demonstrate the liberating potential of raw female rage. Rage and horror films avant la lettre.

Gunda Gottschalk
Violin and...

The Suffragette’s Dream
The Suffragette’s Dream
FR
1909
Silent film
6’
OW
2024

These rarities from the early years of cinema are revenge films of a truly special kind. They utilise the sensational new capabilities of cinema to depict supernatural phenomena and evil forces. They demonstrate the liberating potential of raw female rage. Rage and horror films avant la lettre.

Gunda Gottschalk
Violin and...

19Apr18:00 Tiger Stripes Amanda Nell Eu Schauburg Dortmund
Tiger Stripes
Amanda Nell Eu
TW / SG / FR / DE / NL / ID / QA
2023
Spielfilm
95’
OmU
Audience Award

Twelve-year-old Zaffan leads a carefree existence, despite the constraints imposed on her by her strict teachers and parents. She likes to make funny TikTok clips, to fight and make up with her girlfriends. They swear not to keep secrets from each other and boldly defy customs and religious norms...

19Apr18:00 Wolf’s Hole Věra Chytilová Filmhaus Köln
Wolf’s Hole
Věra Chytilová
CZ
1986
Spielfilm
92’
OmeU
2024

A group of eleven young people have been picked to take part in a special ski course, but their excitement soon disappears. Not only is their isolated chalet cut off from the outside world by an avalanche, it also turns out that something is seriously wrong with the three...

19Apr Special INTO THE WILD KHM Aula
INTO THE WILD

Introducing the INTO THE WILD mentorship programme

INTO THE WILD is a mentorship programme aimed at empowering young female film-makers at the start of their career. It brings together emerging talent with decision-makers and experienced female professionals from the industry.

We look forward to welcoming organisers, alumni and mentors of INTO...

Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning Caroline Spreitzenbart (DoP)
Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning
Caroline Spreitzenbart (DoP)
DE
2023
Documentary
79’
OmeU, dt. UT
Audience Award

Introducing the INTO THE WILD mentorship programme

INTO THE WILD is a mentorship programme aimed at empowering young female film-makers at the start of their career. It brings together emerging talent with decision-makers and experienced female professionals from the industry.

We look forward to welcoming organisers, alumni and mentors of INTO...

19Apr20:00 Bye Bye Tiberias Lina Soualem Filmhaus Köln
Bye Bye Tiberias
Lina Soualem
PS / FR / BE / QA
2023
Documentary
82’
OmeU, dt. UT
Audience Award

A mother and daughter look at photographs of the past together. A complex family history is viewed in the Paris flat and they try to put it into some form of overview: women from 4 generations, their lives spanning Palestine and France.
Lina Soualem and her mother, the actress Hiam...

19Apr20:15 Family Time Tia Kouvo Schauburg Dortmund
Family Time
Tia Kouvo
FI / SE
2023
Spielfilm
116’
OmeU
Audience Award

Christmas time is family time. The children arrive. Doors open. Doors close. For Ella and Lasse’s daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren, the annual family gathering at their grandparents’ house is an obligatory event and a well-established ritual. Outside, they are surrounded by a winter wonderland. Inside, disinterest, grievances and simmering...

19Apr Film The Film All-Nighter: The Devil Inside Filmforum NRW
The Film All-Nighter: The Devil Inside

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

White Trash Girl: The Devil Inside Jennifer Reeder
White Trash Girl: The Devil Inside
Jennifer Reeder
US
1996
Short film
8’
OFe
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Patouillard a une femme jalouse Roméo Bosetti
Patouillard a une femme jalouse
Roméo Bosetti
FR
1912
Silent film
6’
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Miracle Whip [Befreit] ELA EIS
Miracle Whip [Befreit]
ELA EIS
DE
1979
Short film
8’
OW
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

…hab ich euch nicht glänzend amüsiert? Gabriele Stötzer
…hab ich euch nicht glänzend amüsiert?
Gabriele Stötzer
DE
1989
Short film
6’
OF
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Sardine Ashley Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer
Sardine
Ashley Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer
AT
1984
Experimental
2’
OW
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Possibly in Michigan Cecilia Condit
Possibly in Michigan
Cecilia Condit
US
1983
Short film
12’
OFe
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Es Nervt - Die Goldenen Zitronen feat. LaToya Manly-Spain Oloruntoyin LaToya Manly-Spain, Ted Gaier, Christopher Radke
Es Nervt - Die Goldenen Zitronen feat. LaToya Manly-Spain
Oloruntoyin LaToya Manly-Spain, Ted Gaier, Christopher Radke
DE
2019
Music video
4’
OF
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Retaliation Hanna Ljungh
Retaliation
Hanna Ljungh
SE
2007
Short film
5’
OW
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

I Would Like To Rage
I Would Like To Rage
FR
2023
Experimental
11’
OmeU
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Let Iranian Vampires Suck your Blood; Horror Beyond the Camera Negar Tahsili
Let Iranian Vampires Suck your Blood; Horror Beyond the Camera
Negar Tahsili
2024
Lecture Performance
20’
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Blutclip Pipilotti Rist
Blutclip
Pipilotti Rist
CH
1993
Experimental
3’
OW
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Kitchen Sink Alison Maclean
Kitchen Sink
Alison Maclean
NZ
1989
Short film
14’
OFe
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Hematic Cultures Anaís Córdova-Páez
Hematic Cultures
Anaís Córdova-Páez
EC / ES
2023
Experimental
3’
OmeU
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

I Am A Horse Chaerin Im
I Am A Horse
Chaerin Im
KR / DK
2022
Animation
7’
OW
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Trying to Forget You Aérea Negrot, Simon*e Jaikiriuma Paetau
Trying to Forget You
Aérea Negrot, Simon*e Jaikiriuma Paetau
DE
2019
Music video
8’
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Amanita Muscaria Hajdi Đukić Grba
Amanita Muscaria
Hajdi Đukić Grba
RS
2022
Short film
9’
OmeU
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

Like Lucifer – Go! Go! Gorillo Kurdwin Ayub
Like Lucifer – Go! Go! Gorillo
Kurdwin Ayub
AT
2019
Music video
4’
OFe
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

The Language of Rage Alison Peirse
The Language of Rage
Alison Peirse
UK
2023
Short film
3’
OmeU
The Film All-Nighter

We cordially invite our guests to immerse themselves in a night of furious women: anarchic, musical, rebellious and full of humour.

Film-makers and protagonists address the different aspects of anger, portraying it as a feeling of liberation that turns into lustful, energetic strategies of self-empowerment. Women emerge as plausible perpetrators...

19Apr20:15 Trying to Forget You Aérea Negrot, Simon*e Jaikiriuma Paetau Filmforum NRW
Trying to Forget You
Aérea Negrot, Simon*e Jaikiriuma Paetau
DE
2019
Music video
8’
OF
Focus: Rage & Horror

A spontaneous performance brimming with confrontational energy and beauty in the streets of Berlin. In the middle of the night, a broken heart finds music in the arms of beautiful strangers. In memory of artist and musician Aérea Negrot, who passed away much too young in 2023.

19Apr20:30 Animalia Sofia Alaoui Odeon Köln
Animalia
Sofia Alaoui
FR / MA / QA
2023
Spielfilm
89’
OmeU
Audience Award

In a village in the Atlas Mountains, newly-wed and heavily pregnant Itto lives in the home of her wealthy in-laws. Itto herself is a member of the Amazigh, or »free people«, and comes from a working-class background. Her husband Amine is the son of a caïd, a local leader....

19Apr23:00 Festival party with the Mimosa Collective
Festival party with the Mimosa Collective

Mimosa e. V. is a feminist film, art and music collective from the independent cultural scene in Cologne, consisting of 8 members. They mainly organise film evenings outside the cinema, which are thematically integrated and framed by readings, performances and DJ sets. In doing so, they cooperate with cultural...

20Apr Formfragen Filmhaus Köln
Formfragen

This year, Formfragen is showing a multi-channel video installation at Filmhaus Köln.

Öffnungszeiten:
Di 14-17 pm
Mi 12-19 pm
Do 12-19 pm
Fr 10 am - 19 pm
Sa 10 am - 19 pm
So 10 am - 16 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4pm.

Those Who Kept the Light Nastja Säde Rönkkö
Those Who Kept the Light
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
NO / FI / DK
2022
10-Kanal-Videoinstallation
Audience Award

This year, Formfragen is showing a multi-channel video installation at Filmhaus Köln.

Öffnungszeiten:
Di 14-17 pm
Mi 12-19 pm
Do 12-19 pm
Fr 10 am - 19 pm
Sa 10 am - 19 pm
So 10 am - 16 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4pm.

20Apr12:00 Copa 71 Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine Filmforum NRW
Copa 71
Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine
UK
2023
Documentary
91’
OmU
Specials

»Why haven’t I seen this before?« In the first scene of Copa 71, American international footballer Brandi Chastain stares at her tablet in amazement. She is watching footage of the first ever international women’s football tournament in Mexico City in 1971, Copa 71. Why is it that one of...

20Apr12:00 Panel discussion: »Rage& Horror as a Feminist Strategy« Filmhaus Köln
Panel discussion: »Rage& Horror as a Feminist Strategy«

A discussion with Nancy Mac Granaky-Quaye, Sara Neidorf, Jennifer Reeder and Festival guests

Expressing anger is a bold and threatening act of defiance and rebellion. Anger is loaded with information and energy, said Audre Lorde in her 1981 speech »The Uses of Anger« Her fear of anger taught her nothing,...

20Apr14:30 The Face of the Jellyfish Melisa Liebenthal Odeon Köln
The Face of the Jellyfish
Melisa Liebenthal
AR
2022
Experimental
76’
OmeU
Audience Award

One night, Marina’s face suddenly changed. Otherwise, she has the same body, the same life. »I don’t know what to call you now with this face« says her grandmother. She replies: »You can call me Marina.«
In her everyday life, and in her relationships with her family and partner, Marina...

20Apr Workshop Lesvia + Butch Up! Filmhaus Köln
Lesvia + Butch Up!
Lesvia Tzeli Hadjidimitriou
Lesvia
Tzeli Hadjidimitriou
GR
2024
Documentary
77’
OmeU, dt. UT
Audience Award
Butch Up Yu-Jin Lee
Butch Up
Yu-Jin Lee
KR
2022
Spielfilm
12’
OmeU
desired! – film lust & queer
20Apr16:15 Mambar Pierrette Rosine Mbakam Odeon Köln
Mambar Pierrette
Rosine Mbakam
BE / CM
2023
Spielfilm
93’
OmeU, dt. UT
Audience Award

It’s the rainy season and the new school year is about to begin. From dawn ’til dusk, Mambar Pierette sews school uniforms and exquisite dresses for special occasions in her tiny shop in a slum of Douala (Cameroon). Mambar is not just a seamstress, she is also a trusted...

20Apr17:15 Performance: Aller-retour et aller. Dialogue with a Film – Karolin Meunier Karolin Meunier Filmforum NRW
Performance: Aller-retour et aller. Dialogue with a Film – Karolin Meunier
Karolin Meunier

Standing in front of a cinema screen, Karolin Meunier places herself between the images and words to dig into the motley life of American actress, scriptwriter, and filmmaker Barbara Loden. The performance Aller-retour et aller is built upon the power of reactivating one’s life through that of someone else’s...

20Apr18:00 Apolonia, Apolonia Lea Glob Filmforum NRW
Apolonia, Apolonia
Lea Glob
DK / PL / FR
2022
Documentary
116’
OmeU
Audience Award

Pictures of Apolonia – they’re everywhere: from videotapes of her birth to oil-painted self-portraits. Rarely has it been so hard to elude a main character: in her eyes is the lightness of youth, the artist’s willingness to take risks. After growing up in her parents’ theatre in Paris, Apolonia...

20Apr18:00 Elbow Aslı Özarslan Schauburg Dortmund
Elbow
Aslı Özarslan
DE / TR / FR
2024
Spielfilm
86’
OmeU, dt. UT
Audience Award

Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her greatest wish is to have a life, a real future! Despite writing countless applications, she can’t find an apprenticeship and isn’t even invited for an interview. Instead, she’s stuck in a pointless job centre training scheme. On her 18th birthday, Hazal...

20Apr18:30 Hellbender Toby Poser, John Adams, Zelda Adams Filmhaus Köln
Hellbender
Toby Poser, John Adams, Zelda Adams
US
2021
Spielfilm
83’
OFe
2024

Izzy lives with her mother in an isolated location in the mountains. The 16-year-old spends most of her time roaming the woods on her own or playing with her mother in their super-cool metal band H6LLB6ND6R. Izzy dreams of performing live, but she knows this will never happen –...

20Apr20:15 Chuck Chuck Baby Janis Pugh Schauburg Dortmund
Chuck Chuck Baby
Janis Pugh
UK
2023
Musical, Spielfilm
102’
OmU
Audience Award

In a small town in North Wales, Helen lives together with her husband, his new partner, their child and her mother-in-law Gwen. She looks after Gwen and works in the chicken factory, Chuck Chuck Baby. Her life revolves around the factory and their terraced house with its red bricks...

20Apr20:30 Family Time Tia Kouvo Odeon Köln
Family Time
Tia Kouvo
FI / SE
2023
Spielfilm
116’
OmeU
Audience Award

Christmas time is family time. The children arrive. Doors open. Doors close. For Ella and Lasse’s daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren, the annual family gathering at their grandparents’ house is an obligatory event and a well-established ritual. Outside, they are surrounded by a winter wonderland. Inside, disinterest, grievances and simmering...

20Apr20:30 Perpetrator Jennifer Reeder Filmhaus Köln
Perpetrator
Jennifer Reeder
US / FR
2023
Spielfilm
100’
OmU
Audience Award

Jonquil Baptiste (known as Jonny) makes a living from burglaries and petty crimes. Her single father suffers from a strange illness and neglects himself and his daughter, so Jonny is taken in by her eccentric aunt Hildie. On her 18th birthday, the ice-cold matriarch introduces Jonny to the supernatural...

20Apr20:30 The Night of the Factory Girls Geonhee Kim Filmforum NRW
The Night of the Factory Girls
Geonhee Kim
KR
2023
Documentary
99’
OmU
Panorama

At the start of the 20th century, when cinema was emerging, Korea was under Japanese occupation – a violent colonisation that lasted for forty years. Only very few films from this period have survived. In her debut, Geonhee Kim takes this as a starting point to search for images...

21Apr Formfragen Filmhaus Köln
Formfragen

This year, Formfragen is showing a multi-channel video installation at Filmhaus Köln.

Öffnungszeiten:
Di 14-17 pm
Mi 12-19 pm
Do 12-19 pm
Fr 10 am - 19 pm
Sa 10 am - 19 pm
So 10 am - 16 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4pm.

Those Who Kept the Light Nastja Säde Rönkkö
Those Who Kept the Light
Nastja Säde Rönkkö
NO / FI / DK
2022
10-Kanal-Videoinstallation
Audience Award

This year, Formfragen is showing a multi-channel video installation at Filmhaus Köln.

Öffnungszeiten:
Di 14-17 pm
Mi 12-19 pm
Do 12-19 pm
Fr 10 am - 19 pm
Sa 10 am - 19 pm
So 10 am - 16 pm

An artist talk with Nastja Säde Rönkkö will take place on Sunday from 4pm.

21Apr11:45 Workshop Workshop: Queer Home Movies Odeon Köln
Workshop: Queer Home Movies

Home movies and videos are a phenomenon from a time gone by. But are they still around somewhere today, now that digital platforms offer a space and different formats for people to produce their own visual and audio material? Film scholar Dr Dagmar Brunow and Natascha Frankenberg (curator of...

21Apr12:00 Echo of You Zara Zerny Filmhaus Köln
Echo of You
Zara Zerny
DK
2023
Documentary
76’
OmU
Audience Award

Older people hold their hands in front of their eyes and visualise their loved ones. They try to remember them in detail – with no images to help them, they focus on their other senses and reveal the past: What did he smell like? How did her skin feel...

21Apr Film Image immersion: Birgit Hein Filmforum NRW
Image immersion: Birgit Hein

We immerse ourselves in the images of Birgit Hein – and in the world of one of the most important film artists of the post-war period. The artistic career of this experimental film-maker, who grew up in Duisburg and died in 2023, began in Cologne, the city whose subculture...

Im Spiegel der Bilder. Die Filmemacherin Birgit Hein Karin Jurschick
Im Spiegel der Bilder. Die Filmemacherin Birgit Hein
Karin Jurschick
DE
2001
Documentary
46’
OF
Specials

We immerse ourselves in the images of Birgit Hein – and in the world of one of the most important film artists of the post-war period. The artistic career of this experimental film-maker, who grew up in Duisburg and died in 2023, began in Cologne, the city whose subculture...

Rohfilm Birgit Hein, Wilhelm Hein
Rohfilm
Birgit Hein, Wilhelm Hein
DE
1968
Experimental
21’
OW
Specials

We immerse ourselves in the images of Birgit Hein – and in the world of one of the most important film artists of the post-war period. The artistic career of this experimental film-maker, who grew up in Duisburg and died in 2023, began in Cologne, the city whose subculture...

Kriegsbilder Birgit Hein
Kriegsbilder
Birgit Hein
DE
2006
Experimental
10’
OF
Specials

We immerse ourselves in the images of Birgit Hein – and in the world of one of the most important film artists of the post-war period. The artistic career of this experimental film-maker, who grew up in Duisburg and died in 2023, began in Cologne, the city whose subculture...

21Apr A Place of Rage + Black Panthers Filmhaus Köln
A Place of Rage + Black Panthers
A Place of Rage Pratibha Parmar
A Place of Rage
Pratibha Parmar
UK
1991
Documentary
52’
OFe
2024
Black Panthers Agnès Varda
Black Panthers
Agnès Varda
FR / US
1968
Documentary
28’
OFe
2024
21Apr14:30 Camping du lac Éléonore Saintagnan Odeon Köln
Camping du lac
Éléonore Saintagnan
BE / FR
2023
Spielfilm
69’
OmeU, dt. UT
Audience Award

»I’d like to tell you about an odd thing that happened.« This is the opening line of Camping du lac, as narrated by the main character Éléonore Saintagnan, who is played by the director herself. This ecological parable is about the pleasures of storytelling, about capitalist greed and our...

21Apr16:00 9 to 5 Colin Higgins Filmhaus Köln
9 to 5
Colin Higgins
US
1980
Spielfilm
110’
OmU
2024

»Workin’ 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin’ | Barely getting’ by, it’s all takin’ and no givin’ | They just use your mind | And you never get the credit | It’s enough to drive you crazy if you let it.« Dolly Parton’s anthem from...

21Apr16:00 Echo of You Zara Zerny Schauburg Dortmund
Echo of You
Zara Zerny
DK
2023
Documentary
76’
OmU
Audience Award

Older people hold their hands in front of their eyes and visualise their loved ones. They try to remember them in detail – with no images to help them, they focus on their other senses and reveal the past: What did he smell like? How did her skin feel...

21Apr16:00 on fire Jana Bauch Odeon Köln
on fire
Jana Bauch
DE
2023
Documentary
30’
OmeU
desired! – film lust & queer

Statement of the Jury (Yoliswa von Dallwitz, Antonia Kilian, Agnesh Pakozdi):

Jana Bauch’s film reveals her exceptional talent as a director and cinematographer. was brennt documents the occupation and forced removal of the occupants of Lützerath, a hamlet adjoining the Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine, an event that has become...

21Apr Workshop Short film programme »So, what’s the outlook like?« Odeon Köln
Short film programme »So, what’s the outlook like?«

The environment in the three films is shattered, dismantled. Landscapes pass by and with them all memory of their existence. In one instance, it is the present that starts to falter under inequality, at another, all orientation is lost in the future, and at another, the place from the...

was brennt Jana Bauch
was brennt
Jana Bauch
DE
2023
Documentary
30’
OmeU
desired! – film lust & queer

The environment in the three films is shattered, dismantled. Landscapes pass by and with them all memory of their existence. In one instance, it is the present that starts to falter under inequality, at another, all orientation is lost in the future, and at another, the place from the...

Farewell Recording for an observer of an unknown time and place Rita Macedo
Farewell Recording for an observer of an unknown time and place
Rita Macedo
DE
2023
Experimental
26’
OmU
desired! – film lust & queer

The environment in the three films is shattered, dismantled. Landscapes pass by and with them all memory of their existence. In one instance, it is the present that starts to falter under inequality, at another, all orientation is lost in the future, and at another, the place from the...

C-TV (Wenn ich Dir sage, ich habe Dich gern...) Cordula Thym, Eva Egermann
C-TV (Wenn ich Dir sage, ich habe Dich gern...)
Cordula Thym, Eva Egermann
AT
2023
Experimental
30’
OmU
desired! – film lust & queer

The environment in the three films is shattered, dismantled. Landscapes pass by and with them all memory of their existence. In one instance, it is the present that starts to falter under inequality, at another, all orientation is lost in the future, and at another, the place from the...

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