MAYHEM (Abigail Child, b/w, 16mm, 17' USA 1987)

arsenal experimental has aquired the latest work by Canadian filmmaker, artist, and musician Michael Snow from the program "Forum expanded".

Christoph Girardet's and Matthias Müller's new film KRISTALL (2006) - distributed by arsenal experimental - wins the "Grand Prix Canal+ du court métrage" at the international filmfestival in Cannes.

The exhibition Poor Man's Expression will once again expand the projection space of Kino Arsenal into the Foyer. Between May 4th and May 29th screenings, readings and performances by ten international artists and filmmakers will be presented both in the installation and the cinema.

Anne Quirynen's videoinstallation MAXIMILIAN'S DARKROOM on display until April 16th at "A Room of One's Own" in Brussels

This spring five more films from the Forum program 2005 will open in German cinemas. As first Forum films 2006 Aus der Ferne (From Far Away), We Can't Go Home Again and Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind... (And If They Haven't Passed Away...) will be released theatrically.

Strange Circus (Kimyo na sakasu) by Sono Sion receives the Award of the "Berliner Zeitung" Reader's Jury. It comes with 3.000 Euro.

A selection of films presented in the 36th Forum will be shown once again in the Arsenal cinema the week after the Berlinale.

The Independent Juries of the Berlinale gave three more awards to films from the program of the 36th Forum: Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon, Close to Home and Dear Pyongyang.

At the 20th Teddy Awards Au-delà de la haine by Olivier Meyrou and Combat by Patrick Carpentier have been awarded.