Following its successful cinema release in November, Guy Maddin’s MY WINNIPEG (Canada 2007) is now available on DVD at Filmgalerie 451 as part of the arsenal edition range.

It may be three years old but is still a valuable news item: The curators Anselm Franke and Hila Peleg selected five films from Arsenal's collection for Manifesta7, which they showed in the vaults of a fortress in Fortezza, South Tyrol. One of the rediscoveries was BARN RUSHES by the American experimental filmmaker Larry Gottheim (1971, 36 minutes) about which Tony Conrad once wrote: "…elegant yet rustic in its simplicity of execution; tugged gently toward different sides of the set by hints of color and motion interactions, positive and negative spaces, etc., and the unyielding delivery on one of the great apotheoses of poetic cinema at fade-out time." The presentation at Manifesta7 not only allowed the film to be digitalized but a new copy to be purchased.

The 3000€ Tagesspiegel Readers' Prize went to Nesvatbov (Matchmaking Mayor) by Erika Hníková. The film will be shown again on the last day of the festival.

The independent juries of the Berlinale have awarded prizes to three films from the Forum programme: En terrains connus, Amnistia and Heaven's Story. Halaw and De Engel van Doel both received special mentions.

This year four films from the Forum and Forum Expanded programmes received TEDDY awards: Marco Berger's Ausente won best film; the TEDDY for best documentary went to Marie Losier's The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye. The prize for best short film was given to two films: to Barbara Hammer and Gina for their film Generations and to Barbara Hammer forMaya Deren's Sink.

This year's Caligari Prize goes to Marie Losier's The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, which also won the Teddy award for best documentary.

The prize of the Internatioanl Federation of Film Critics for a film in the Forum's programme goes to Heaven's Story by Zeze Takahisa.

Jonas Mekas, who is presenting his new film Sleepless Nights Stories at the Forum, and P. Adams Sitney will be discussing the beginnings and practice of the New York Anthology Film Archives which they both co-founded on 19.2.

Forum Expanded is taking to the radio waves for the very first time. The radio station Deutschlandradio Kultur will be presenting sound works from Keren Cytter, Dani Gal, Achim Lengerer, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Tony Conrad as part of the "Klangkunst" series. The works can also be heard beforehand at the Arsenal cinema on 16.2.

With Dreileben, the Forum will be showing a unique cinematic experiment: a project conceived for televlsion that is comprised of three 90 minute films by Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf and Christian Hochhäusler. The premiere wil be taking place at the Delphi cinema on 16.2, with a repeat screening at the International cinema on the final day of the festival.