In addition to the films from the Forum's main programme three special screenings with films by Japanese master Shimazu Yasujiro are also being repeated at the Arsenal cinema from February 23rd - 25th.

A selection of films from this year's programme will be repeated at the Arsenal cinema next week: Kyoto Story, Nénette, The Oath, Putty Hill and Sona, the Other Myself.

The screening of Winter's Bone as the winner of the "Tagesspiegel" Readers' Jury prize will now be taking place at CinemaxX 6 at 20.30 due to technical reasons.

This year's Femina Film Prize for an "outstanding artistic contribution made by a female technician" was awarded to Reinhild Blaschke for her set design on Thomas Arslan's Im Schatten (In the Shadows).

The independent juries at this year's Berlinale have awarded prizes to 3 films from the Forum programme: Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza), Au revoir Taipei and Winter's Bone. The latter also received the prize of the "Tagesspiegel" Readers' Jury.

Pietro Marcello's La bocca del lupo has won both this year's Caligari and the TEDDY Award, the Berlinale's queer film prize.

The prize of the international film critics association FIPRESCI for a film of this year's Forum programme was given to El vuelco del cangrejo by Oscar Ruíz Navia.

Sharon Lockhart and the protagonist of her film Double Tide, Jen Casad, will be guests at the GREEN ME Lounge on February 18th. During Berlinale environmental subjects are being discussed here by means of selected films.

In her unique performance The Abstract Prophecy Conference Islandic artist Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir controls an abstract PowerPoint world blended in with music, videos, performances and poetry.

Complementing the exhibition Cinema City at the cinemas Arsenal, Cubix and Delphi, a panel discussion with the initiators of the project and screening will be hold on February 16th.

Ulrich and Erika Gregor, co-founders of the Forum, have been awarded the Berlinale Camera as part of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. Following a speech in their honour by film historian Naum Klejman the film "Gisihiki" by Nagisa Oshima, which was shown at the first ever official Forum in 1971, was then screened.

Seven of the world's most talented young indigeneous filmmakers from the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will be presenting their project Embargo Collective at the Arsenal cinema on February 15th.

Forum Expanded provides daily guided gallery tours to the various exhibition venues across town. It is advisable to book in advance due to the limited number of places and great demand.

Once again, several Forum guests are also involved in the Talent Campus programme: Laura Poitras, Anat Zuria, Madhusree Dutta, Caroline Kamya, Claire Denis, Yamada Yoji and Abe Tsutomu will be taking part in various panel discussions. Islandic artist Ásdís Sif Gunarsdóttir can be seen in a performance.

A lounge with posters and catalogues from four decades of Forum history is open to visitors on the ground floor of the Filmhaus from today on. In addition to the historical material, five new video installations by Lucien Castaing-Taylor are on show there.

The 40th Forum opens with the Bill Douglas Trilogy tomorrow night at Delphi theatre. In addition to the films, which are part of the Forum anniversary programme, a trailer consisting of historical clips of news coverage on the Forum will be shown.

Bilbliothèque Pascal, which will have its international premier at the Berlinale's Forum section, received four prizes at the Hungarian Film Week: In addition to the "Golden Reel Main Prize" the film obtained the "Student Jury's Main Prize", the "Best Cinematography" prize and the "Gene Moskowitz Foreign Critics’ Prize".

The 5th edition of Forum Expanded starts with numerous exhibition openings. On the 10th of February the first group exhibition already opens at the Akademie der Künste. The grand opening of the Hamburger Bahnhof as well as the "Auto-Kino" in the Temporäre Kunsthalle takes place at the 11th. On the 12th both the Filmhaus and many galleries start ...

For this year's anniversary the Berlinale takes its movies as well as the film crews on a flying red carpet to Berlin's "Kiez" cinemas. The Forum presents Orly and Au revoir Taipei in the cinemas Hackesche Höfe and Capitol Dahlem.

The Caligari Film Prize will be awarded to a film from the Forum program for the 25th time this year. The award ceremony will be held at the Arsenal cinema after a reception at the HomeBase Lounge on February 19th.