Matthew Porterfield's Putty Hill was awarded Best Film and Best Director at Santiago International Film Festival, ex aequo with "Alamar" by Pedro González-Rubio. The film had its world premiere in this year’s Forum.
Laura Poitras' The Oath has received the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs, North America's biggest documentary film festival.
Nicolas Wadimoff's documentary Aisheen [Still Alive in Gaza] has been awarded 2 prizes at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon: the "Buyens-Chagoll" Award, endowed with 5.000 CHF. as well as a special mention by the Young Audience Award.
Tatjana Turanskyj's debut Drifter (Eine flexible Frau) which received its world premiere at the Forum this year, has been selected for the ACID programme and will be presented at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival.
This year's Caligari Prize winner La bocca del lupe by Pietro Marcello has received the Special Jury award as well as the SIGNIS award at the 12th Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI). El vuelco del cangrejo by Oscar Ruíz Navia received a special mention.
The forthcoming Indie Lisboa Festival will be celebrating the Forum's 40th anniversary by presenting the programme Four Decades of the Forum. The festival runs from April 22nd till May 2nd.
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Forum, the Buenos Aires Festival de Cine Independiente (BAFICI) will be showing a programme consisting of brand new as well as older films that have been shown at the Forum.
A selection of Forum films will be shown at the Paris Goethe Institute from April 7 - 14th. The programme will be opened by Angela Schanelec's Orly, a German-French co-prdocution.
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.