General Info on the Berlinale Forum

Berlinale Forum – International Forum of New Cinema and 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 
Christoph Terhechte (Director)
Anna Hoffmann (Program Coordinator)
Karen Peek (Administration)

Contact for Forum Expanded 
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Director)
Uli Ziemons (Program Coordinator)

International Forum of New Cinema
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin
Telephone: +49-30-26955-200
Fax: +49-30-26955-222
Email: forum(at)arsenal-berlin.de
www.arsenal-berlin.de/forum

The next Berlinale Forum will take place from February 7-17,2013

The submission regulations and online registration portal for the 2013 Berlinale will be available from mid-September 2012.

International Forum of New Cinema 2012

Team: Christoph Terhechte (Director), Karen Peek (Head of Administration), Gerd Werner Schnabel (Film Registration), Anna Hoffmann (Program Coordinator), Delia Kunstmann (Communication), Caroline Pitzen (Guest Coordination), Hanna Keller, James Lattimer (Press and Publicity), Bernd Buder (Cinema Coordination)

Selection Committee: Anna Hoffmann, Hanna Keller, Birgit Kohler, James Lattimer, Anke Leweke, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Christoph Terhechte, Ansgar Vogt, Dorothee Wenner 

Program Advisors: Bernd Buder, Jutta Doberstein, Hans-Joachim Fetzer, Wolfgang Martin Hamdorf, Tanja C. Horstmann, Hanna Keller, Merle Kröger, Claudius Lünstedt, Elisabeth Lequeret (Paris), Luciano Monteagudo (Buenos Aires), Nikolaj Nikitin, Caroline Pitzen, Ralf Schenk, Gerd Werner Schnabel, Gabriela Seidel-Hollaender, Meenakshi Shedde (Bombay), Giovanni Spagnoletti (Rome), Kerstin Stolt, Cécile Tollu-Polonowski, Norman Wang (Hong Kong), Jacob Wong (Hong Kong)

Online Editor: Hanna Keller

Catalogue Editors: Karin Herbst-Meßlinger, Milena Gregor, Sabine Seifert

Program Brochure Editor: Christoph Terhechte, Hans-Joachim Fetzer, James Lattimer

Forum Expanded 2012

Curators: Anselm Franke, Nanna Heidenreich, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Bettina Steinbrügge, Uli Ziemons (assistant curator)

Staff: Uli Ziemons (Program Coordinator), Nora Molitor (Program Assistant, Online Editor), Angelika Ramlow (Guest Office), Angela Anderson (Exhibition Design, technical Director)

Advisory Board: Christa Blümlinger, Wulf Herzogenrath, Crissie Iles, Marc Siegel