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FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE
20–27 October 2022

FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE 2022
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Bright New Talents
Visual experiments. Unfiltered emotions. The courage to be radical. With the aim of representing…
DECISION TO LEAVE
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New Films by Great International Directors
The FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE shows the latest works of great directors from all over the world for the…
THE KINGDOM EXODUS
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Best International Series
Like no other festival, we bring the most exciting series to the screen. In Top Ten TV, innovative…
FUMER FAIT TOUSSER
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Film Culture and the Zeitgeist
The FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE is the film festival for the film-cultural zeitgeist, in all its…
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Great Variety in the NRW Competition
With a high density of talented creatives, a bold public funding structure and strong production…
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Stories for Change
What stories can make the world a better place? With a selection of intrepid and uncompromising…
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Thrilling Crime Stories
Hardly anything seems to last as long as the interest in human abysses. The boom of true-crime…
Sessions & Events
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Global Day. Stories for Change
These days moving images and modern audiovisual media are indispensable for communication about…
Prod X Change 2022
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Producers XChange 2022. Branded Entertainment
Digitization opens many opportunities to media and content creatives. Linear content fuses with…
European Series Day
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European Series Day
The European Series Day presents the European serial market’s trends and tendencies and discusses…
COMEDY CONNECTOR
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Cologne Comedy Connector
The Cologne Comedy Connector is an event designed to bring established and aspiring comedy…
Netzwerktreffen Benelux meets NRW
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Networking Event Benelux Meets NRW
Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg share a common living and economic area with North…
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Upcoming: High end documentary series in the ARD Mediathek
The ARD Mediathek, under the aegis of the WDR, launches no less than two promising true crime…
European Work in Progress Cologne
Sessions & Events
European Work in Progress Cologne (EWIP)
European Work in Progress Cologne is an industry event with the aim of connecting international…
Glotz und Gloria
Sessions & Events
Glotz, Gags & Gloria - Wie arbeiten Macherinnen von Comedyserien?
What is it we’re laughing at? How much melancholia, taboo or silence does comedy require? What…
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Sessions & Events
International Distribution Summit
The fim industry is in the middle of a major upheaval. How can independent distributors find…
NRW Stipendien neu
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NRW stipends for artistic filmmaking
At the FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE the Filmbüro NW and DOXS RUHR present the winners of their coveted…
Film Culture and the Zeitgeist
Urban GIF Parcours
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Urban GIF Parcours
This year, we are transforming Cologne's city center into an open-air gallery again. With the…
RADICAL DREAMER WERNER HERZOG
Best of Cinema Documentary
WERNER HERZOG – RADICAL DREAMER
Portrait of an artist as an old soul: Thomas von Steinaecker reviews the phenomenon that is Werner…
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Zombies go on a rampage on a movie set – but that’s not the only disaster brewing here. Michel…
FUMER FAIT TOUSSER
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SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING
They are called Nicotine, Ammonia, Methanol, Benzene and Mercury, and together they are the “Tabac…
LEONOR WILL NEVER DIE
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LEONOR WILL NEVER DIE
It's not often that a film within a film (within a film) is so original, funny and emotionally…
THE KINGDOM EXODUS
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THE KINGDOM EXODUS
Lars von Trier’s 1994 mystery series THE KINGDOM became a cult hit. One sequel and quarter century…
LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL
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LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL
Lilith Stangenberg once again fearlessly takes on a role that pushes her right to the limit. Just…
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Best of Cinema Documentary
LYNCH/OZ
How to understand David Lynch? The interpreters of America‘s most mysterious filmmaker are legion.…
Interviews
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"Most people are more afraid of losing their mind than of dying."
Gaspar Noé is known for putting a strain on his audience's nerves with provocative films like…
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"There are many things hiding beneath the surface …"
An artist talk of a special kind. David Lynch explains the magical and mysterious world of…
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“We have to mobilize – our liberty is at stake”
We spoke to Steve McQueen about his stirring BBC series UPRISING. In it, he lets survivors and…
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“The essence of filmmaking is the visual image”
With MY CHILDHOOD, MY COUNTRY: 20 YEARS IN AFGHANISTAN, director Phil Grabsky has created an…
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How to celebrate life
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Legal, illegal, optimal, doesn’t matter at all
The zeitgeist works best in small portions. Microdosing is the name of the trend toward…
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The most surprising dance scenes on the big screen
Dancing isn’t just limited to musicals. Whether it's a thriller, drama or comedy, there's often…
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Just before a blackout – The alcohol content check
Drinking scenes in films are known to be a bottomless pit. And if you let the boozed-up movie…
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Existentialist motivational art: Kierke Caards
Øpen your ears før Søren! The 19th century existential philosopher’s wisdom can be insightful as…
Joey Schweitzer
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Expert tutorials for all life situations: Better Ideas
Joey Schweitzer doesn't have good ideas, he has Better Ideas – and in doing so, he has somehow…
Fashion on the move
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Yves Saint Laurent – Design and character
The paradox of unfolding one’s individual characteristics in someone else's clothes … this is the…
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Fashion on the move: Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fashion
Fashion is for fashionable people. Maybe so, but ... in film and any in motion picture content,…
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The biggest stars of fashion on the big screen
The world of haute couture - those who build such impressive backdrops around themselves as the…
Fashion Commercials
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Fashion Commercials from Scorsese to Coppola
The relationship between film and fashion can be seen even in the smallest details - from costume…
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THE SIMPSONS are running at Fashion Week
THE SIMPSONS on the catwalk for Balenciaga. To mark the arrival of their latest collection, the…
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The fashionable aspects of digitalization
The art of the fashion show and its cinematic staging: an immersive affair that combines the cut of…
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Washing dirty laundry with the Gucci family
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Conspiracy myths
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Which conspiracy suits you?
You see ghosts where others watch the news? Is that why you have the secret services on your tail?…
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The pigeons are not what they seem
Pigeons in London's Trafalgar Square are not only a must-see for tourists, the birds, for their…
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The best SOUTH PARK Conspiracies
Those who think SOUTH PARK is sheer realism might feel validated by these episodes. Everyone else…
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Watch Out: The Great Conspiracy
The ideas of QAnon and their German cousins, Querdenkers [lit. lateral thinkers] are widespread in…
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John Oliver's Creme Egg Conspiracy
You've asked yourself this question after your last icy family party with your spiritually distant…
Crime stories
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Play a detective and solve the case!
The ultimate dream of any detective getting in to the nitty gritty of a crime scene - without the…
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A genre is booming: The lust for crime
The true crime genre is booming. Books, films, series, TV shows, podcasts. The stories about…
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The most captivating True Crime movies on the big screen
In the beginning there was the word, then came the deed, the assassination, and the image we…
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Our True Crime Fact Check
Files, files, files: As a True Crime fan, you live in your own world of evidence and conjecture -…
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True Crime online: Anatomy of a shot to the head
True Crime is not only a feeling – see: goose bumps. True crime is also a matter of the head. This…
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Killing time with the best True Crime Podcasts
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