In ever-darkening times across the globe amid hardening discourses, the films of the 54th Berlinale Forum emphatically engage with what it means to be human. Across a wide range of genres and with remarkable formal stringency, they give accounts of everyday realities linked to migration, colonialism, corruption or precarity, of care and loss, of stubborn characters and other heroes. At times set at secondary-seeming locations or in the past, they still lead us into the centre of what the world is currently about.
Barbara Wurm, Head of Forum
