The 40th Forum opens with the Bill Douglas Trilogy tomorrow night at Delphi theatre. In addition to the films, which are part of the Forum anniversary programme, a trailer consisting of historical clips of news coverage on the Forum will be shown.

Bilbliothèque Pascal, which will have its international premier at the Berlinale's Forum section, received four prizes at the Hungarian Film Week: In addition to the "Golden Reel Main Prize" the film obtained the "Student Jury's Main Prize", the "Best Cinematography" prize and the "Gene Moskowitz Foreign Critics’ Prize".

The 5th edition of Forum Expanded starts with numerous exhibition openings. On the 10th of February the first group exhibition already opens at the Akademie der Künste. The grand opening of the Hamburger Bahnhof as well as the "Auto-Kino" in the Temporäre Kunsthalle takes place at the 11th. On the 12th both the Filmhaus and many galleries start with their programme.

For this year's anniversary the Berlinale takes its movies as well as the film crews on a flying red carpet to Berlin's "Kiez" cinemas. The Forum presents Orly and Au revoir Taipei in the cinemas Hackesche Höfe and Capitol Dahlem.

The Caligari Film Prize will be awarded to a film from the Forum program for the 25th time this year. The award ceremony will be held at the Arsenal cinema after a reception at the HomeBase Lounge on February 19th.

The Program of the 5th edition of Forum Expanded is now online.

For the seventh year international tv- and film festival professionals are visiting the Berlinale invited by the Deutsche Welle (DW). This year's twelve participants come from Zambia, China, Tanzania, Burundi, India, South Africa, Thailand, Morocco and the Philippines.

Ulrich and Erika Gregor, co-founders of the Forum, have been awarded the Berlinale Camera as part of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. Following a speech in their honour by film historian Naum Klejman the film "Gisihiki" by Nagisa Oshima, which was shown at the first ever official Forum in 1971, was then screened.

The 40th Forum Program is now online. Under Program both the Main Program and Special Screenings as well as the program Four Decades of the Forum can be found. Forum Expanded will follow shortly.

Winter's Bone by Debra Granik has been awarded the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The film, which will receive it's international premiere at the forthcoming Forum, was also given the Waldo Screenwriting Award. Laura Poitras' The Oath received an Excellence in Cinematography Award.