Arsenal 60 ff. – Film talks from five decades of Forum

The audience discussions at the Berlinale Forum are legendary: they are enthusiastic, interested, profound, honest and enlightening – on the part of the filmmakers and the audience. Most of the talks were recorded and have since been digitized.

In order to recover this cultural treasure, Arsenal presents selected conversations as podcasts and contextualizes them in dialogue with experts. We begin with three films and three conversations that we have selected for the exhibition "Was anderes machen (The Home and the Movie", which can be seen at silent green until November 26.

Helke Misselwitz’ WINTER ADÉ

Helke Misselwitz's film gives an immediate impression of life and the mood in the GDR one year before its collapse. Birgit Kohler, program director of the Arsenal cinema, talks to us about Misselwitz's remarkable feel for her protagonists, GDR documentaries in the 1980s and how WINTER ADÉ influenced her career.

WINTER ADÉ will be screened on December 7 at Arsenal as part of "Was anderes machen".

Helke Sander's DIE ALLSEITIG REDUZIERTE PERSÖNLICHKEIT – REDUPERS

Helke Sander describes the social reality of working, single mothers and is also a document of walled West Berlin. We talk about this with Elena Baumeister and Fiona Berg from the feminist collective feminist elsewheres, who organized a festival of the same name at Arsenal in early November. What does the film mean for young feminists today?

Safi Faye's FADJAL

Safi Faye's FADJAL combines documentary and fiction in a portrait of a Senegalese village. Karina Griffith, film curator and member of the Forum Expanded selection committee, explains the background. We talk about what makes good audience questions, the European view of African films and how Faye does ethnology from the inside.

The podcast Arsenal 60 ff. is hosted by Valie Djordjević. She is a social media editor for the Forum and Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, as well as an author, photographer and translator. Most recently, she published the book "Die Berliner Schule im globalen Kontext. A transnational arthouse cinema" edited by Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher (Transcript Verlag 2023).

The podcast is part of ARSENAL 60 ff. and is made possible by a grant from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.