After it says goodbye to Potsdamer Platz at the beginning of 2025, Arsenal will kick off a year without its own screens before a new cinema opens in the silent green Kulturquartier of Berlin's Wedding district in early 2026.

After many years of meaningful contribution to Forum Expanded, Ala Younis will be stepping down from her position as co-head of the Berlinale section. She will continue her work in art, curatorial, publishing, and research projects. Ulrich Ziemons remains the section’s head.

Beth B's film SALVATION! was shown at the Forum in 1987. In our podcast series "Arsenal 60ff. — Film Talks from 5 Decades", we are publishing the audience discussion with Beth B, the main actor Stephen McHattie and the passionate Berlin film audience, moderated by Ulrich Gregor.

We are in mourning.

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.