As in previous years, the Paris Goethe Institute is showing a selection of Forum titles. From April 13-15, Birgit Kohler will present five films from this year's programme: DEADWEIGHT by Axel Koenzen, DIE GETRÄUMTEN (THE DREAMED ONES) by Ruth Beckermann, RIO CORGO by Maya Cosa and Sergio da Costa, INERTIA by Idan Haguel and LANDSTÜCK (PIECE OF LAND) by Volker Koepp.

The selection is part of the programme "The Berlinale in Paris", which also presents a range of Panorama titles on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the the Teddy Award.

What's ringing, scratching, rustling in the film? Since films were first shown in 1895, they have been accompanied by sounds and music. A sound track collects sounds, music and noise. Before ourselves experimenting with sounds and noise and coming up with ideas for a sound track for Marie Menken's DWIGHTIANA (USA 1959) that we will eventually perform live, we will find out what can be seen and heard in six shorts: A small boy dreams in VALSE TRISTE by Bruce Conner (USA 1979), SUSAN THROUGH CORN (Kathleen Laughlin, USA 1974) shows a woman walking through the cornfields and EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (Excerpt, Harry Smith, USA 1933–56) depicts shapes and movements of light. In Buster Keaton's THE BALLOONATIC (Excerpt, USA 1923), we are suddenly flying in a balloon and in Joyce Wieland's SAILBOAT (Canada 1968) we hear the sea.

March 13, Arsenal 2

DIE GETRÄUMTEN (THE DREAMED ONES) by Ruth Beckermann has received the Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Feature Film at the Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film.

In the film, which received its world premiere as part of this year's Forum programme, two actors recite the correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, which reveals their tragic love story over the course of 20 years. The textual drama is channelled through the actors' voices, even as they sometimes leave their roles to discuss what the words do to them.

This month, arsenal distribution is releasing last year's Caligari award winner: BALIKBAYAN #1 – MEMORIES OF OVERDEVELOPMENT REDUX III by Kidlat Tahimik. In addition to the cinema release and the Caligari award tour through a number of German cities, the Arsenal presents a complete retrospective of Kidlat Tahimik's work with the director being present from March 1-12.

The Caligari jury described BALIKBAYAN #1 as "a dazzling comet of "Third Cinema" that, after almost 40 years of production time, had finally exploded into the present." In it, Kidlat Tahimik travels to the 16th century, slipping into the role of Enrique de Malacca, Ferdinand Magellan's slave, and suggesting that it is not the Portuguese explorer who first circumnavigated the globe but his servant, whose story was promptly forgotten. BALIKBAYAN #1 is also about the adventure of the filmmaker himself trying to make a film that he had already declared an "eternal work in progress" in 1982. The film closes yet another circle in Berlin. The Forum was first struck by "Silent Lightning" (the translation of the pseudonym Kidlat Tahimik) from the Philippines almost 40 years ago, when shwoing Tahimik's debut PERFUMED NIGHTMARE, which later on became a cult film of postcolonial cinema.