In 1998 retrospective at the '51st Locarno International Film Festival', Switzerland.
In 2003 retrospective at the '5th Buenos Aires International Festival of
Independent Cinema', Argentinia.
In 2007 retrospective at the '8th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF)', South Korea. Farocki was additionally a director of the 'Jeonju Digital Project 2007' together with Pedro Costa and Eugène Green.
He contributed to the screenplays of 11 films by director Christian Petzold.