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»ifs-Begegnung« Gender & Diversity

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.
As part of ifs-Begegnung Gender & Diversity, we regularly show feature films and documentaries in alternation.

All events take place at Filmforum NRW at Museum Ludwig. Admission is free.

In recent years we have shown:

9. October 2024
Elbow

Aslı Özarslan, DE/TR/FR 2024, feature film, 86′
Guest: Andac Karabeyoglu Thomas (DoP)
Moderation: Maxa Zoller (artistic director IFFF Dortmund+Köln)

12. June 2024
Baby I Will Make You Sweat
Birgit Hein, DE 1994/1995, experimental, 66’
Guest: Britta Wandagoo (Filmmaker and professor for documentary, journalistic and artistic film formats at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences)
Moderation: Maxa Zoller (artistic director IFFF Dortmund+Köln)

13th September 2023
Darshan Singh will in Leverkusen bleiben
Navina Sundaram, DE 1973, Contribution ARD afternoon program, 43′
Guest: Merle Kröger (author and producer)
Moderation: Maxa Zoller (artistic director IFFF Dortmund+Köln)

8th March 2023
Working on it
Karin Michalski and Sabian Baumann, DE/CH 2008, experimental, 50′
Guest: Karin Michalski (director)
Moderation: Natascha Frankenberg (curator IFFF Dortmund+Köln)

9th November 2022
Something Must Break
Ester Martin Bergsmark, SE 2014, feature film, 90′
Curation and moderation: Marcel-Jana Urban and Beverly Stura-Cura (Netzwerk queer@filmschule, ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln)

14th September 2022
Freda
Gessica Généus, HT/FR/BJ 2021, feature film, 92′
Award Best Debut Feature Film IFFF Dortmund+Köln 2022
Moderation: Dr. Maxa Zoller (artistic director IFFF Dortmund+Köln)

9th March 2022
Threshold
Coraci Ruiz, BR 2020, documentary, 77′
Followed by a talk with Flo Bader (Universität Köln) and Dr. Maxa Zoller (artistic director IFFF Dortmund+Köln)

10th November 2021
The Orphanage
Shahrbanoo Sadat, DK/DE/FR/LU/AF/QA 2019, feature film, 90′
Guest: Shahrbanoo Sadat (director)
Moderation: Dr. Maxa Zoller (artistic director IFFF Dortmund+Köln)

16th June 2021
In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beer Garden in Teheran
Narges Kalhor, DE/IR 2019, experimental documentary, 75′
During the Festival in June 2021, we talked with director Narges Kalhor as part of the »ifs-Begegnung« Gender & Diversity. The conversation is still available on our Vimeo channel.

1st July 2020
Johanna Dohnal – Visionary of Feminism
Sabine Derflinger, AT 2019, documentary, 107′
Guests: Sabine Derflinger (director) and Alice Schwarzer (Journalist/companion)
Moderation: Dr. Maxa Zoller (artistic director IFFF Dortmund+Köln)

 

Aufnahme des vollbesetzten Filmforum NRW.

 

Bild eines Filmgesprächs nach einer ifs Gegegnung-Veranstaltung.

 

Aufnahme eines Filmgesprächs zwischen drei Personen im Filmforum NRW.

 

Filmgespräch zwischen zwei Personen im Filmforum NRW.

 

Filled cinema auditorium with conversation on stage.

 

Conversation situation in the cinema for the screening of Elbow.

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