The newly inaugurated „Doc Alliance Award“ for best European documentary was given to the film Citizen Havel. The award is endowed with 5,000 euros and was announced on November 15th.
The distribution of "Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art" will release Aditya Assarat’s Wonderful Town in German cinemas on 27th November; in Switzerland, Trigon distribution has been showing the film successfully since the end of October.
manifesta7 - the Fortezza filmprogram
November 11th we present at Cinema Arsenal the manifesta 7 film program curated by Anselm Franke and Hila Peleg for Fortezza / Franzensfeste. In attendance: the curators and the artists Harun Farocki, Karoe Goldt und Karl Kels
Guest curator Ian White at Cinema Arsenal
It's Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But The Situation In Which He Lives: Art, Cinema and Context Now - PROGRAMME CHANGE
Victoire Terminus, Kinshasa by Renaud Barret and Florent De La Tullaye has been selected as the winner of this year's Grierson Award for Best Feature-length Documentary at the 52nd London Film Festival.
The First Steps Award 2008 for Best Feature Film by a young German director was given to Brigitte Bertele and script-writer Johanna Stuttmann for their film Night Before Eyes (Nacht vor Augen).
Political protest and right-wing threats had aborted the Japan premiere of Li Ying’s Yasukuni in April. Subsequent public debate, however, has encouraged the film’s belated cinema release and nationwide attention. Once again, August 15 marks the anniversary of Japan’s military surrender in WW II – a date notorious for the right-wing’s pilgrimage to the Yasukuni shrine.
At the 23rd International Documentary Film Festival Munich the "Special Documentary Award", sponsored by BLM (Bavarian Authority for Private Broadcasting) and worth 2,500 Euro, went to Občan Havel (Citizen Havel) by Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek.
Public meeting for a self organised film lab
For all of those working with film and for everybody who always wanted to learn how
arsenal experimental welcomes Bruce Elder (Toronto)