Events and screenings of FilmInitiativ Köln e.V.
2008
Out of Europe X / 1st Panafrican Screen Award to Newton I. Aduaka (Nigeria)
48 films from Africa
Guests: Newton I. Aduaka, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, Nouri Bouzid, Cheick Fantamady Camara, Leona Goldstein, Adolf El Assal, Khaled El Hagar, Alain Gomis, Emmanuel Jal, Djamila Sahroui, Norbert Servos
Concerts with: Fodé and Mangué Camara, Felabration - Tribute to Fela Kuti with Oghenene Kolobo, Nicolas Addo-Nettey, Adé Bantu and Don Abi, Afrobeat Academy Band, Firedance, DJ Eric Soul and others, Emmanuel Jal and Band, Mariama Jalloh
2007
2nd Edition Screenplay award "KölnFilm"
30th May 2007 at Filmforum NRW, Cologne
African perspectives
Preview „Bamako“ by Abderrahmane Sissako
Murder of Dakar-Niger Express – globalization in Mali
Guest: Dr. Tiècoura Traoré
50 years of Ghana independence
Guests: King Ampaw, Fidèle Kientega
2006
Out of Europe IX
22 films from Africa
Guests: Zézé Gamboa, Z´ka (José) Laplaine, Rahmatou Keïta, Raymond Rajaonarivelo
2005
Screenplay award “KölnFilm 2005” and professional meeting:
„Cinema and the city: coincidence or challenge?"
Those days – 60 years after the end of World War II
Films from Cologne
Out of Europe - Special
Films from South Africa
Guest: Teddy Matera
Changes of a city
40 years Cologne in film
2004
Out of Europe VIII
15 films from Africa
Guests: Serge Bayala, Adama Roamba, Yamina Bachir Chouikh, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
"Köln im Film - Filmgeschichte(n) einer Stadt"
Presentation of the book and screening of selected film
2003
Out of Europe - Special
Films from Africa
„lurens – „Kölner Wochenschau“
Films from Cologne
Kinoaktiv – The independent filmgroups from Cologne present:
„Projektionen"
„Everybody has seen it...!"
9th November 1938 – Persecution of Jews and Anti-semitism in Cologne
2002
Out of Europe - Special
Lumumba – His murderers are still at loose
Guest: Ludo de Witte
Out of Europe VII
32 films from 14 African countries
Guests: Khaled El-Hagar, Newton I. Aduaka, Ahmat Mahamat, Dyana Gaye, Luis Marquès, Oliver Schmitz
2001
The long shadow of colonialism
Films about the situation in Western Sahara and Congo
Visions from Africa
Diapositives, fotos and films from 10 African countries
2000
Out of Europe VI
Films from Africa
Guests: Sarah Maldoror, Gérard Essomba Many, Sanvi Panou, Jean-Marie Teno
1999
Controlled Demolition
Films about money, summits and resistance
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
Out of Europe V
Films from Africa - 32 films from 12 African countries
Guests: José Laplaine, Ahmat Mahamat, Anne Laure Folly
Presentation of the film "La Colline oubliée"
The first Algerian film in Berber language
Guests: Abderrahmane Bouguermouh, Akli Kebaili
1997
Return from emigration
Guests: Gerhard Schick et Frank Schauder
Presentation of the films:
"Die Straße gehört uns" ("This is our Street") by Moustapha Dao (Burkina Faso) and "Le Franc" by Djibril Diop Mambety (Senegal)
Disturbance
from May 68 until autumn 77 - International revolts and reactions in Cinema
Guests: Lorenz Beckhardt und Ingolf Gritschneder
Treasures - contemporary short-films
8 films from 6 African countries
Guests: Hans-Peter Metzler, Fernand
1996
Out of Europe IV
Films from Africa
Guests: Fanta Nacro, Samba Félix Ndiaye, Jean-Marie Teno, Dawit Lakew, Ben’s Belinga, Peter Donatus
Presentation of the works of Trinh T Minh-ha (USA/Vietnam)
Shoot for the Contents / Reassemblage / Naked Spaces - Living Round
A week of remembrance: Ken Saro-Wiwa
Guests: Wole Soyinka, Thomas Giefer
1995
"Die Tochter des Puma" / ("The Daughter of the Puma") by Ulf Hultberg, Asa Faringer
Presentation of the film
"Hyänen" (Hyènes) by Djibril Diop Mambéty/Senegal
Presentation of the film
1994
"Satanstango" by Béla Tarr, Hungary
Presentation of the film
Electric Shadows
Films from China
Guest: Klaus Eder
1993
Out of Europe II
Films from Africa
Aboriginality
Films by the aborigines of Australia
Guests: Bernhard Lüthi, Djon Mundine
Out of Europe III
Films from Africa
Guests: Fanta Nacro, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, Jean-Marie Teno, Ahmed Diop, Prof. Ntite Mukendi, Prof. Etienne R. M’Baya
1992
Out of Europe I
Films from Western Africa
Guests: Mamady Keita, Jean-Marie Teno, S. Pierre Yaméogo, Saga Sawadogo
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: Against Racism and Neo-Nazism
Guests: Ernest Mandel, Anne Tristan, Matthias von Hellfeld, Heiner Lichtenstein, Robert Thomas Frickel
1988
Radiant Times
Anti-nuclear films
Guest: Bertram Verhaag