Blicke
4 days in November
The Ruhr Region’s international film festival screens documentaries and feature films, music clips, animation and experimental movies.
›› Bochum-Langendreer, endstation.kino, Wallbaumweg 108, Tel. 0 234/2 66 16
›› www.blicke.org
Duisburger Filmwoche
1 week
Festival for German documentary movies, where the expression “documentary film’’ is widely used.
›› Duisburg, Filmforum am Dellplatz & Kulturzentrale HundertMeister
›› www.duisburger-filmwoche.de
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
5 days
500 films and videos are on the starting block to compete for a coveted movie shorts prize.
›› Oberhausen-Altstadt-Mitte, Lichtburg Filmpalast, Grillostr. 34
›› www.kurzfilmtage.de
Internationales Frauenfilmfestival (IFFF)
5 days in April
The world’s most important women’s film festival takes place in alternate years in Cologne and Dortmund.
The next one in Dortmund is in April 2012.
›› www.frauenfilmfestival.eu
Kirchliches Filmfestival
3 days in March
This film festival has screened moving films covering the themes of humanity, suffering, ethics, justice and solidarity, all since 2002.
›› Cineworld Recklinghausen: Recklinghausen-Stadtmitte, Kemnastr. 3-3a
›› www.kirchliches-filmfestival.de