Arsenal is moving out of the Filmhaus on Potsdamer Platz by the end of 2024 and will open its new cinema in the West Hall of the silent green Kulturquartier in Berlin-Wedding in 2026. In mid-December 2024, we will say goodbye to 25 years at Potsdamer Platz and will move on into a year as a traveling cinema playing at various locations in Berlin, Germany and internationally.

Seven films from the upcoming Forum Expanded programme have been confirmed. The works selected shed light on both the palpable and more ephemeral effects of power, grief, and dispossession.

From biopics to musicals, from road movies to images of closeness: the first eight films of the 54th Berlinale Forum show historical awareness, are culturally wide ranging and take a stand in socially and politically challenging times.

On November 30, before the screening of Birgit Hein's film BABY, I WILL MAKE YOU SWEAT, the publication "Viva Birgit Hein", edited by Mike Holboom, will be presented.

We are opening our audio archive with the podcast "Arsenal 60ff". The audience discussions during the Berlinale Forum are legendary – enthusiastic and often entertaining. We are presenting a selection and contextualizing them in conversations with experts.

The head of Berlinale Forum Barbara Wurm introduces her new selection team. It is made up of a broad range of experts—filmmakers, critics, curators and academics.

Following the presentation at Berlinale Forum we are delighted to welcome Fiona Tan's film in our distribution program. In the collection of the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, she researched archive material dating from before the 1920s. The material depicts everyday life and above all the hard work only slowly being made easier by machines.

We are delighted to add Claire Simon's latest film to our distribution programme. After its premiere at the Berlinale Forum 2023, NOTRE CORPS was presented at numerous festivals worldwide and is now available to rent with German subtitles fur customers in Germany, Austria and German speaking Swizerland.

On April 15 2023, war erupted in Sudan between two rival military factions. Two members of the Sudanese Film Group, Suliman Elnour and Ibrahim Shaddad, had to leave Sudan. They abandoned their work, their archives, their premises and all their worldly possessions and escaped with their families to Egypt in June 2023. The Arsenal wants to support them and asks for help.

Arsenal is offering a workshop in 16mm shooting, processing, archiving, print intersection and cleaning, digitization and projection in cinema from September 9th to 13th. Arsenal members and partners will accompany the participants through the entire process: from producing a 16mm film, to digitizing it, then on to projecting it in the cinema, with added insights into archiving and caring for prints.