Industry get-together

Industry get-together

Since 2013, IFFF Dortmund+Köln has organised panel discussions and network meetings at the Berlinale in Berlin.

Events:

2022

»Imagine Afghanistan. Women Filmmakers and Their Vision« 2022

Held as an associated event of the European Film Market (EFM) at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival in cooperation with the film network LaDOC, we organised a panel discussion, moderated by Andrea Kuhn, director of the Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival.

Guests:
Director Shahrbanoo Sadat (The Orphanage)
Director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami (Sonita)
Director Zamarin Wahdat (Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl), Bambirak).

Please find the complete recording of our event in English here.

2021

»FREE THE GAZE – A best practice discussion on cinematic emancipation«

In 2021 the event was held as a panel discussion via Zoom under the title FREE THE GAZE – A best practice discussion on cinematic emancipation. Practices of participatory forms of representation and solidarity-based collaborations were discussed.

Guests:
Curator and director Ania Freer (Goat Curry Gallery, Real Talk)
Emma Davie (director of Becoming Animal, I am Breathing & lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art)
director and cinematographer Néhémie Lémal (On ne peut plus rien dire)
producer and screenwriter Paulina Lorenz (Futur Drei, Druck)

Moderation:
Ama Josephine B. Johnstone (author, artist, curator, scholar and Pleasure activist)

The event took place in collaboration with ifs internationale filmschule köln, Pro Quote Film and WIFT Germany.

The recording video is online available on our channels on Vimeo and Youtube.

2021

»Why are Woman Film Festivals important now«

During the corona pandemic, the International Women’s Film Festival Network, led by IFFF Dortmund+Köln, produced the global women’s film festival video Why are Women Film Festivals important now?

2020

»The other Story: Feminist scripts in cinema now«

2020 panel discussion addressed the current status of women in the film industry. “How do you develop new forms of storytelling?” was the event’s guiding question.

Guests:
Denise Quistorp (Director Austrian Culture Forum Berlin)
Barbara Fränzen (Head of the Film Department, Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport; Austria)
Maxa Zoller (artistic director IFFF Dortmund+Köln)

Keynote:
Kathrin Resetarits (Scriptwriter, Actress, Director, Professor; Austria)

Panel:
Kathrin Resetarits (Scriptwriter, Actress, Director, Professor; Austria)
Elma Tataragic´ (Scriptwriter, Professor, Programmer Sarajevo Film Festival; Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Tatjana Turanskyi (Scriptwriter, Director, Pro Quote Film; Germany)

Moderation:
Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg (drehbuchForum Wien, FC Gloria,
Initiator of the script competition »If she can see it, she can be it«; Austria)