The Forum special programme "Fiktionsbescheinigung" sets out to counter the white gaze on German film history. Film curators Karina Griffith, Jacqueline Nsiah and Can Sungu discuss this year’s selection of films with Cristina Nord.
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Essay
The Argentinean Military Dictatorship in Film
On the films made by the children of the disappeared, a state prosecutor as a hero for the big screen and the significance of the Forum film EL JUICIO in the process of coming to terms with the legacy of the Argentinean dictatorship. By Luciano Monteagudo
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Thought Needs Images: The Berlinale Forum Main Programme
Powerful documentaries stand alongside highly personal essay films. Features draw on pared-down plots or a penchant for the absurd in equal measure. The 28 films that make up the Forum main programme celebrate the diversity of cinematic forms and explore the predicaments of the past and present in unflinching fashion.
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An Atypical Orbit: The 18th Forum Expanded
A total of 34 works from 20 countries are being presented at the Forum Expanded cinemas, at the silent green Betonhalle, as well as at SAVVY Contemporary and in the Marshall McLuhan Salon of the Embassy of Canada in Berlin.
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Forum Special: Headed for the Retrospectives of the Future
Queer flamboyance in Rio de Janeiro, inverted ethnography in Bärwalde and the camera-aided dissections of Sohrab Shahid Saless: this year's Forum Special explores marginalised areas of film history. The “Fiktionsbescheinigung” series continues, while two newly restored historical films round off the programme.
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Podcast
Bilder Denken No. 6 Making and curating films in a war situation
What does it mean to program a filmfestival if your country is at war? We talk with Yuliia Kovalenko who is part of our preview team in Odessa how the film community in the Ukraine deals with the situation.
Testimonies on the state terror of the military dictatorship in Argentina, road trips through Los Angeles during the pandemic, and a science-fiction essay on life in the Eremocene. The 53d Berlinale Forum takes place from February 16 to 26, 2023.
The first selected films and installations include works by Lei Lei, Deborah Stratman and Eduardo Williams. The Forum Expanded group exhibition will once again be presented at silent green Betonhalle. The show opens on February 15, 2023.
There were a number of different reasons for the naming of Kino Arsenal in 1970. One of them was the allusion to the silent film by the Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko from 1929. We asked the author and film critic Bert Rebhandl to look at the film again from today's perspective. The result is a comprehensive research and re-examination.