Press Releases 74th Berlinale

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

Mar 07, 2023: Barbara Wurm Appointed as New Head of the Berlinale Forum

As of August 1, 2023, the author and curator Barbara Wurm will be taking over as head of the Forum section [...]