News 74th Berlinale
Forum & Forum Expanded
Feb 08, 2024: Empathetic, Diverse and with Solidarity: the 2024 Forum
Between generations, between genres, between people – this year, the Forum once again invites you to journey to and beyond the borders of what is familiar in film. For the first time headed by Barbara Wurm, the section combines a diversity of genres with analytical cinema and provides a platform for those voices that are drowned out, derided or suppressed elsewhere. At times, the films tell their stories slowly, at other times they are action-packed; sometimes they sing and sometimes they remain silent [...]Forum & Forum Expanded
Feb 07, 2024: Distant Connections
In the interview section heads Ala Younis and Ulrich Ziemons talk about ghosts as multipurpose metaphors, 16mm as a resurgent material in experimental film making and what may have surprised them in this year’s selection [...]Forum & Forum Expanded
Jan 17, 2024: From Unseen Corners. The 30 Films in the Main Programme of the 54th Forum
Under new section head Barbara Wurm, the Forum presents itself in typically daring fashion in relation to its pressing interest in the filigree and the fragmentary. Yet the programme also shows a clear openness towards larger-scale forms of cinema that might at first glance seem familiar [...]Forum & Forum Expanded
Jan 17, 2024: Forum Expanded 2024: Distant Connections
The 19th edition of Forum Expanded presents 19 cinematic works from 20 countries. The selected films, installations and performances repeatedly draw our attention to communities – their constitution, the breaking points they face and the dangers and constraints to which they are exposed to [...]Forum & Forum Expanded
Jan 09, 2024: Relations & Resistance: The 2024 Forum Special
This year’s Forum Special is dedicated to films that show a stance – whether in the 1970s or 2023 [...]Forum & Forum Expanded
Dec 20, 2023: Forum Expanded Announces the First Seven Films Selected for the 2024 Programme
The works selected shed light on both the palpable and more ephemeral effects of power, grief, and dispossession [...]Forum & Forum Expanded
Dec 13, 2023: The First Films of the 54th Forum: Women, Communes, Generations
The 54th Forum is blazing new trails. The first eight films selected set their sights on history and the present, on women and different generations [...]Forum & Forum Expanded