News Archive

24.01.2025

Our programme is online & advance booking has started!

This it is: the result of our months of research and screenings. The six-day programme of the 42nd IFFF Dortmund+Cologne […]

05.03.2025

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 […]

04.03.2025

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 […]

03.03.2025

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 […]

01.03.2025

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, […]

28.02.2025

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 […]

18.02.2025

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 […]

06.02.2025

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 […]

30.01.2025

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 […]

22.01.2025

2 February: »Beyond Silence« at World Views Cologne

On Sunday, 2nd February, we warmly invite you to the screening of Jenseits der Stille at the Odeon Kino in […]

22.01.2025

30 January: Art on the MOve: Scissors, pen, camera – female pioneers of cinema

Inspired by the art of trick film pioneer Lotte Reiniger, we present a short film programme about film editing in […]

22.01.2025

5 February: »Tiger Stripes« at »ifs-Begegnung« Gender & Diversity

On Wednesday, 5th February, we will be showing the feature film Tiger Stripes together with ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln. Tiger […]