Specials

Specials

Our Specials programme includes films, talks, performances and a whole lot more – the icing on the cake, items that add extra flavour to the Festival’s programme.

For this edition of the festival, we have invited our Berlin colleagues from Arsenal on location to present the documentary film about the first women’s film seminar in 1973, a film that could only be completed over 50 years later. We are delighted that our jury member Yasemin Şamdereli will be presenting her latest cinema film Samia. And with our popular Cinema to Go format, we are bringing short films into public spaces – for free and outdoors.

But cuts and ‘non-increases’ in the independent scene’s budget have stopped us serving the full Specials menu this year – so the Cologne programme will not take place, for example.

Please get behind the Cologne campaign for the independent scene to turn this situation around: Make some noise! Keep your hands off the independent scene! Keep your hands off film culture!

Einfach

Claudia von Alemann

DE
1966
Experimental
5’
OF

A white-painted hallway, a staircase from which someone steps out onto the street. A kitchen where dishes are being washed, […]

Fakenham Occupation

Susan Shapiro

GB
1972
Documentary
12’
OFe

Fakenham Occupation is Susan Shapiro’s first film. The film documents the occupation of a factory in Fakenham, Norfolk, in the […]

CuteFM – Collective for music and visuals CuteFM༼ つ ◕◡◕ ༽つ presents itself with a playful mix of music and […]

The Long Road to the Director’s Chair The first International Women’s Film Festival in Germany took place in 1973. Back […]

IT
1975/76
Experimental
8’
OFe

An experimental short film by a pioneer of the Italian women’s movement. Following the landmark 1971 collective film L’Aggetivo Donna, […]

Love your city – that’s rule number one in Jürgen Wiebicke’s Erste Hilfe für Demokratie-Retter (First Aid for Democracy Saviours). […]

Samia

Yasemin Şamdereli

IT / DE / BE / SE
2024
Spielfilm
102’
OmU

Samia is growing up in a modern Muslim large family in Mogadishu. At home, the atmosphere is warm and humorous, […]

This programme of short films complements the screening of The Long Road to the Director’s Chair by Vibeke Løkkeberg and […]

Subjektitüde

Helke Sander

DE
1966
Experimental
5’
dt. OmeU

This film deconstructs a seemingly trivial situation: a brief encounter between a young woman and two men at a bus […]

NO
2025
Documentary
70’
OmeU

The documentary Abort (1972) by Vibeke Løkkeberg played a role in abortion law reform in Norway. L’Aggetivo Donna (1972) by […]