Film Festival: Where the Wind Scatters Seeds;
7.−9. February 2025
Filmhaus Köln

Where The Wind Scatters Seeds, memories bloom from barren ground of tears in the soil, whispers of forgotten friends, shadows of distant homes, erased faces on torn photographs. Echoes of yesterday, dreams of tomorrow. 

 Info about the festival (invitation text)

Over the course of three days, a carefully curated film program, born from interdisciplinary collaboration - takes shape. 
Weaving together the intersection of memory, dislocation, and radical solidarity, the program uses film to confront, as well as imagine beyond colonial violence and the ways it warps our sense of self, community, time and space. Complimenting the film program with alternative media forms such as food, music, an interactive drawing corner & a healing conversation circle, the cinema is transformed into a space for nurturing ancestral forms of belonging. It reflects on the essence of home—its presence, what it carries, and the void left in its absence. The showcased works examine the act of remembering, transforming archives into dynamic spaces for resistance, reclamation, and processes of un-learning.

Curated by:

Schaho Balbas

Vincent E.

Idil Xaashi Hassan

Julia Jesionek

Lan Mi Lê

Polina Resnianska

Sarah Savalanpour

Shadi Tabibzadeh

Safiya Yon

Project Manager: Cate Lartey

 Info about the programs and tickets

The festival takes place over three days. You have to get tickets for the individual programs (price range between 4-10 EUR per ticket). There is no festival pass and no day ticket. The programs are held in English. Almost all (short) films have English subtitles (a few have English language without subtitles).

DAY 1: (dis)location within (7 february, from 18h)

Program #1: (dis)location

Program #2: within

DAY 2: Our Eyes Have Exhausted the Vocabulary of Death (8 february, from 15h)

Program #1: Two Rivers and a Wind

Program #2: Resisting Oblivion

Program #3: Vocabulary of Absence & Music Performance

DAY 3: Radical Kinship: Reimagining Communities Through Solidarity (9 february, from 15h)

Program #1: Living Archives

Program #2: Radical Solidarity

Program #3: Radical Imagination

+ Drawing Corner and Fundraiser for Palestine over the three days

 The film festival is part of NEW CURATORS, a project by Filmhaus Köln and ADKDW. Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW and and the Cultural Office of Cologne.