The first season of the Arsenal Filmatelier (in collaboration with the FilmSoundProject SonONOlux) on the subject of light comes to a close on 9.12. with a comprehensive closing presentation. Since March this year, the Arsenal Filmatelier team, which consists of Ute Aurand, Robert Beavers, Anna Faroqhi, Eunice Martins, Laura Mello, Haim Peretz, and Stefanie Schlüter, have watched and discussed a wide range films at Arsenal with nearly 200 Berlin school children from five schools in Kreuzberg, Adlershof, Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg, and Neukölln. They conceived and realized their own cinematic works in urban space and at the schools, experimenting with analogue and digital formats and researching and recording whole worlds of sounds. We would like to present some of the works created in this way on 9.2. at Arsenal, including the first live performance of a film soundtrack which Eunice Martins and Laura Mello developed with pupils from the Leibniz Gymnasium. Funded from the Berlin Project Fund for Cultural Education.

Dealing with the past is an important precondition for shaping the present. It is the only way of legitimizing responsibility for the future. The "Future of Memory - Nationwide School Cinema Program for Remembering the Holocaust in Film" project follows up "Asynchronous. Documentaries and Experimental Films on the Holocaust. From the Collection of the Arsenal." Throughout 2016, school events featuring films from the Asynchronous project will take place all over Germany.

For the short film day on the shortest day of the year, on December 21 filmmaker and curator Maike Mia Höhne presents a program dedicated to filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950–2015), who died recently. We never met. Her work was already with me. Now she's gone. "Go into the light", sings Almut Klotz, "and don't get lost while you do – go into the light and be free."