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.