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MY CHILDHOOD, MY COUNTRY:
FFQ&A with director Phil Grabsky
War in Ukraine
Ukraine
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Oliver Stone, Putin, and DR. STRANGELOVE
Between 2015 and 2017, US filmmaker Oliver Stone spoke for hours on end with Russian President…
Ukraine
Pop Culture
David Lynch’s Appeal to Putin
"What you sow, you shall reap". That’s what director David Lynch wrote to Vladimir Putin via…
Ukraine
Society
Podcast: War of Images
The team from Justice Reporters interview experts on the topic of “War of Images. Images in War”.
Ukraine
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Film
WINTER ON FIRE: Documentary on the Maidan Revolution
In his documentary on the 2013/14 uprising, Yevgeny Afineyevsky captures the historical moments…
Ukraine
Film
ATLANTIS: A Cinematic Prophecy
War has been raging between Ukraine and Russia for years. The establishment of Russian separatist…
Ukraine
Stream
Film
HOW TO DISAPPEAR: Taking a Stance of Denial
The anti-war film by the artist collective Total Refusal deals with the radically pacifist attitude…
Ukraine
Film
Sergei Loznitsa: Between Two Fronts
The Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa makes films like DONBASS, while also strongly positioning…
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…
Fashion
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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,…
Fashion
Pop Culture
Film
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
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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…
Fashion
Pop Culture
THE SIMPSONS are running at Fashion Week
THE SIMPSONS on the catwalk for Balenciaga. To mark the arrival of their latest collection, the…
Fashion
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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…
Fashion
Pop Culture
Film
Washing dirty laundry with the Gucci family
https://www.vogue.com/article/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-house-of-gucci-before-watching-…
Conspiracy myths
Conspiracy
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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?…
Conspiracy
Society
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…
Conspiracy
Stream
Pop Culture
The best SOUTH PARK Conspiracies
Those who think SOUTH PARK is sheer realism might feel validated by these episodes. Everyone else…
Conspiracy
Society
Watch Out: The Great Conspiracy
The ideas of QAnon and their German cousins, Querdenkers [lit. lateral thinkers] are widespread in…
Conspiracy
Pop Culture
John Oliver's Creme Egg Conspiracy
You've asked yourself this question after your last icy family party with your spiritually distant…
Award winners of the FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE
FFCGN 2017
Film
Jane Campion - Film Award Cologne
Oscar, Golden Globe and Silver Lion winner, Jane Campion was awarded the Film Prize Cologne and…
Festival
Film
Steve McQueen – Film Award Cologne
Oscar and Turner Prize winner, Steve McQueen was awarded the Film Award Cologne and came to accept…
FFCGN 2010
Film
David Lynch – Film Award Cologne
David Lynch, who won the lifetime achievement Oscar in 2019, was awarded the Film Award Cologne and…
FFCGN 2016
Film
Claire Denis – Film Award Cologne
Claire Denis was awarded the Film Award Cologne and came to accept the award in person in Cologne.…
FFCGN 2015
Film
Paolo Sorrentino – Film Award Cologne
Oscar and European Film Awards winner, Paolo Sorrentino was awarded the Film Award Cologne and came…
Festival
Film
Gaspar Noé – The Hollywood Reporter Award
The Hollywood Reporter Award goes to the best fictional feature in the Top Ten TV and Best of…
Festival
Film
Albrecht Schuch – International Actors Award
We chose to give the International Actors Award to one of the most versatile and gripping actors in…
Festival
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Phil Grabsky – phoenix Award
British documentary filmmaker Phil Grabsky won the phoenix award this year for his poignant…
Best of Film Festival Cologne 2021
Festival
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The cinema as a place of encounter
The 2021 festival is history - but the date for next year is already set: we'll see you again from…
Festival
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Big movies by top-directors
In 2021 we showed the latest films by some of the great directors of international cinema. Among…
Festival
Pop Culture
Strong German Series and TV-Events
Has always been in our focus: German series, which have now also reached the highest international…
Festival
Society
Stories for Change: Strategies and films for the future
The power of images meets the world in motion: Acute world events were once again a particular…
Festival
The Made in NRW festival series
In 2021, we once again showed how strong film productions from North Rhine-Westphalia are. All…
Festival
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Industry opportunities and challenges
Our numerous industry events in 2021 once again provided the platform for presenting the latest…
Festival
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These Awards were presented
The presentation of our awards at the E-Werk in Cologne was the festive highlight of the FILM…
Crime stories
True Crime
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Pop Culture
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…
True Crime
Society
A genre is booming: The lust for crime
The true crime genre is booming. Books, films, series, TV shows, podcasts. The stories about…
True Crime
Best of
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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…
True Crime
Quiz
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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 -…
True Crime
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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…
True Crime
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Killing time with the best True Crime Podcasts
The internet phenomenon GIF
Festival
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Internet Culture – GIFs without an author
Ping Pong Cat Psychedelic Kitty …
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GIF
Pop Culture
Short culture history: A Toxic GIFt for Society
In the beginning was the GIF – then came the flood of images. When these images learned to walk, an…
Festival
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Andy Kassier – Success is just a smile away
First Impression Next…
Festival
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Julia Farkas – Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Creatures …
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Anne Horel – Contemporary Divinities
Contemporary Divinities – Adam Driver …
How to celebrate life
Tribute to Life
Society
Legal, illegal, optimal, doesn’t matter at all
The zeitgeist works best in small portions. Microdosing is the name of the trend toward…
Tribute to Life
Film
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…
Tribute to Life
Trend
Neil Harbisson can hear colours
Synesthesia is one thing, transhumanism is something else altogether. The paths to perfection are…
Society
Film
Thomas Vinterberg: From the THE CELEBRATION to ANOTHER ROUND
Mads Mikkelsen put it this way at the Film Festival Cologne 2020: ANOTHER ROUND is a homage to…
Fast Forward Original
Society
Film
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…
Tribute to Life
Society
Existentialist motivational art: Kierke Caards
Øpen your ears før Søren! The 19th century existential philosopher’s wisdom can be insightful as…
Tribute to Life
Society
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…
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