Berlinale Forum & Forum Expanded

The Berlinale Forum, or the International Forum of New Cinema to give it its full name, is an event organized by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art as part of the Berlin International Film Festival. Since 2006, Forum Expanded has extended the program to encompass experimental film and video art shown both in cinema and exhibition contexts. The Berlinale Forum is funded by the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (KBB) GmbH.

Films submitted to the Forum must have been completed within one year of the start of the festival, have a running time of at least 60 minutes, and may have not been shown previously in Europe, with the exception of the film’s country of origin. Film and video works submitted to Forum Expanded can be of all formats and lengths.

Contact for the Forum:
Barbara Wurm (Section Head)
Anna Hoffmann (Program Coordinator)
Email: forum(at)arsenal-berlin.de

Contact for Forum Expanded:
Uli Ziemons & Ala Younis (Section Heads)
Email: forumexpanded(at)arsenal-berlin.de

Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin
Telephone: +49-30-26955-200

Berlinale Forum 2024

Organisation

Barbara Wurm (head), Mathilde Chevallier, Silvia Cojocaru, Anna Hoffmann, Katrin Lang, Claudio Muscogiuri, Kim Sarah Nägele, Gerd Werner Schnabel, Auste Serapinaite, Gary Vanisian

Press and Publicity: Valie Djordjević (social media, Arsenal website), Alena Martens (press)

Film Selection

Selection Committee 2024: Irina Bondas, Christiane Büchner, Feven Haile, Anna Hoffmann, Asja Makarevic, Lisabona Rahman, Fabian Tietke, Carolin Weidner, Barbara Wurm

Programme Advisors: Wellington Almeida, Sarah Bahgat, Jesse Cumming, Jutta Doberstein, Susana Gomes, Rebecca Heiler Ciraudo, Sebastian Höglinger, Birgit Kohler, Yuliia Kowalenko, Luciano Monteagudo, Afsun Moshiry, Katja Wiederspahn

Forum Special: Gaby Babic, Christiane Büchner, Fabian Tietke, Barbara Wurm

Forum Expanded 2024

Curators

Karina Griffith, Shai Heredia, Ala Younis, Ulrich Ziemons

Team

Ala Younis, Ulrich Ziemons (Leitung), Celia Bouali (Organisation und Gästebetreuung), Angelika Ramlow (Akkreditierung und Distribution), Iris Ströbel (Redaktion), Ann Roy (Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit), Valie Djordjević (Social Media), Nathan Gray (Koordination Installationen), Rachel Micallef Somerville (Praktikantin)

Film screenings 2024

Cinema Teams

Milan Bath, Stefan Bresinski, Jan Eilhardt, Marcel Golbs, Hannah Hauertmann, Emma Hinze, Nele Sophie Kaiser, Friederike Knapp, Greta Paul, Sandra Schmidt, Kamelia Tavitian, Klara Teigler, Andreas Werner and others.

Moderators Film Talks

Afsun Moshiry, Anke Rauthmann, Asja Makarevic, Birgit Kohler, Borjana Gaković, Carolin Weidner, Christiane Büchner, Fabian Tietke, Gaby Babic, Gary Vanisian, Irina Bondas, Lisabona Rahman, Madeleine Bernstorff, Michael Baute, Olaf Möller, Pamela Biénzobas, Rebecca Heiler Ciraudo, Sailesh Naidu, Srikanth Srinivasan, Wolfgang Hamdorf, Yuliia Kovalenko

Projectionists and Print Checks

Johannes Bock, Alexander Boldt, Anselm Heller, Bodo Pagels, Nikolas Schuppe

Photographers

Dario Lehner (Forum), Leo Hugendubel (Forum Expanded events)

Editorial Team Website

Editor-in-chief 

Barbara Wurm

Administration

Kerstin Stolt 

Editorial Team

Jesse Cumming, Valie Djordjević, Anna Hoffmann, James Lattimer, Iris Ströbel, Sven von Reden, Gerd Werner Schnabel, Gary Vanisian, Uli Ziemons

Translations

Andreas Bredenfeld, Claire Cahm, Clara Drechsler, Anna Galts, Harald Hellmann, Daniel Hendrickson, Andrea Honecker, Hilda Hoy, James Lattimer, Dominikus Müller, Stefan Pethke, Sven von Reden, Matthew James Scown, Donna Stonecipher, Anne Thomas

Acknowledgements

Forum and Forum Forum Expanded express their thanks to the following people and institutions: 

Gulnara Abikeyeva (Almaty), Ido Abram (Amsterdam), Yasaman Ahmadi (Berlin), Dirk Aßmann (Berlin), Ute Aurand (Berlin), Gaby Babić (Frankfurt/M.), Daria Badior (Kyiv), Danielle Belanger (Montreal), Marjorie Bendeck (Berlin), Madeleine Bernstorff (Berlin), Catherine Bizern (Paris), Charlotte Bohn (Berlin), Jesse Broissot (Toronto), Andreas Bühlmann (Zürich), Guillaume Cailleau (Berlin), Carla Cattani (Rome), Merlind David (Berlin), Christian De Schutter (Brüssel), Siw Dörte Diallo (Accra), Marina Drozdova (Cannes), Stefanie Eckert (Berlin), Nina Eckhardt (Berlin), Bettina Ellerkamp (Berlin), Katharina Fichtner (Berlin), Sebastian Fischer (Köln), Anselm Franke (Berlin), Angela Haardt (Berlin), Heike Friesel (Accra), Richard Gersch (Berlin), Maureen Gonsalves (Bangalore), Juan David Gonzales Monroy (Berlin), Griselda Guerrasio (Rome), Jörg Heitmann (Berlin), Maike Mia Höhne (Hamburg), Young-woo Kim (Seoul), Yuliia Kovalenko (Odesa), Daniel Krull (Accra), Armağan Lale (Istanbul), Anne Laurent Delage (Wien), Anke Leweke (Berlin), Carole Lunt (Berlin), Anja Lückenkemper (Berlin), Sarah Mersch (Tunis), Tina Mettner (Berlin), Nathalie Mierop (Amsterdam), Olaf Möller (Köln/Helsinki), Kathrin Mundt (Osnabrück), Boris Nelepo (Lisabon), Cristina Nord (Nairobi), Jacqueline Nsiah (Accra), Hannah Osenberg (Berlin), Mark Peranson (Berlin), Manon Piel (Berlin), Olimpia Pont Chafer (Berlin), Julian Ross (Amsterdam), Sofia Saa (Berlin), Yuka Sakano (Tokio), Rasha Salti (Berlin), Eva Sangiorgi (Wien), Marketa Santrochova (Prag), Julia Schaginurowa (Berlin), Herbert Schwarze (Berlin), Can Sungu (Berlin), Dietmar Schwärzler (Vienna), Andrei Tănăsescu (Bukarest), Peter Taylor (Berwick-Upon-Tweed), Meiske Taurisia (Jakarta), Christoph Terhechte (Leipzig), Eduardo Valente (Niteroi), Edith van der Heijde (Amsterdam), Dorothee Wenner (Berlin), Heike Winkel (Berlin), Linda Winkler (Berlin), Jacob Wong (Hongkong), Matthias Zeiske (Berlin)