FilmInitiativ events from 1988 till 2014 (excluding Africa and Cologne in Film)
FilmInitiativ Köln e.V. has hosted numerous special film events, festivals and individual screenings since it was founded in 1988. Since the 1990s our efforts have focused on two main areas:
1. A comprehensive insight into contemporary African cinema
The programmes from all African film events and background information on African filmmaking can be found on our three-language website with database:
www.filme-aus-afrika.de und Film-Datenbank
2. The "Cologne in Film" project
The programmes from all Cologne film events and background information on Cologne’s film history with a virtual Cologne film archive can be found on the following website with database:
The following is a list of FilmInitiativ events that were not related to Africa or the Cologne in Film project:
2014
DIREN GEZI! WEHR DICH, GEZI! (Gezi resist!)
One year after the revolt in Turkey
10.6.2014, Filmforum NRW in cooperation with Jugendclub Courage
2012
Anti-racist film programme - (18.9. - 2.10.2012) Features, shorts and documentaries. Guests: Samuel Maffire, Christiana Antonakos-Wallace and Frieder Schleich. In Kooperation with "Öffentlichkeit gegen Gewalt e.V." and "Allerweltskino".
2010
The Third World in World War II - 15 films on the role of Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America and black soldiers from the US in World War II accompanying the exhibition of Recherche International e.V., which was presented in Cologne's NS documentary centre from September 16, 2010 to January 16, 2011. See:
www.3www2.de
Guests: Bernard Simon, Fitouri Belhiba, Charles Onana, Theodor Wonja Michael, Peter Finkelgruen, Malte Rauch and Nataly Jung-Hwa Han.
1999
Controlled demolition - Films about money, summits and resistance on the occasion of the G7 and EU summits in Cologne
Guests: Katharina Kean, Sumati Nair, Jörg Siepmann, Mohammed Soudani, Patrice Spadoni
1998
"Los Civilizadores" - Germanness in Guatemala
"The civilisators" - Bearers of civilization
Presentation of the film
Guests: Uli Stelzner, Thomas Walte
1997
Return from emigration
Guests: Gerhard Schick et Frank Schauder
Disturbance - from May 68 until autumn 77
International revolts and reactions in cinema
Guests: Lorenz Beckhardt und Ingolf Gritschneder
1996
Presentation of the works of Trinh T Minh-ha (USA/Vietnam)
Shoot for the Contents / Reassemblage / Naked Spaces - Living Round
1995
"Die Tochter des Puma" / ("The Daughter of the Puma")
by Ulf Hultberg, Asa Faringer
Presentation of the film
1994
"Satanstango"
by Béla Tarr, Hungary
Presentation of the film
Electric Shadows - Films from China
Guest: Klaus Eder
1993
Aboriginality
Films by the aborigines of Australia
Guests: Bernhard Lüthi, Djon Mundine
1991
Palestine in Cinema
Guests: Kaiss al-Zubaidi, Felicia Langer
1990
Here is Germany
Films about the private life of a Nation
Guests: Helano Sana, Josef Gangolt
1989
Fight the Beginnings (Wehret den Anfängen)
Films against Racism and Neo-Nazism
Guests: Ernest Mandel, Anne Tristan, Matthias von Hellfeld, Heiner Lichtenstein, Robert Thomas Frickel
1988
Radiant Times (Strahlende Zeiten)
Anti-nuclear films from different continents
Guest: Bertram Verhaag