Archive translation. This graduation-event report was published in September 2021. Programme details, participants and screening arrangements reflect that date; consult ifs Cologne for current courses and events.
In brief: The graduating bachelor’s class of the International Film School Cologne (ifs) presented its final projects at Cologne’s Cinenova cinema to representatives of the media industry.
The 58 graduates came from screenwriting, directing, creative producing, cinematography, picture and sound editing, VFX and animation, and production design.
Programme: The event included excerpts from 11 fiction graduation films, eight scripts for feature-length films and three final animation projects.
The animation and VFX projects were Circus in Town, a historically inspired story centred on elephants; Yûgen, a dystopian mystery about the individual in the modern city; and Bloom, a comedy about an ambitious tree.
Digital Production previously covered Circus in Town in DP 04:2021 and Yûgen in DP 05:2021. Related archive reports describe the ifs master’s programmes in Entertainment Producing and Film.
