Special distribution offer celebrating Richard Serra’s 70th birthday:
Richard Serra's film and video works in a program of three scenarios for reduced rental fee

Yoav Shamir's Defamation is the winner of the Grierson Award for the best documentary at this year's London Film Festival. The documentary, which deals with contemporary discourses around anti-semitism, had its world premiere at the Forum earlier this year.

Between July 15th and September 9th every Wednesday at 9.30pm on the terrace of the restaurant Friedrich (in case of bad wheather inside!) at the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Alexanderstraße 1. Service charge: 3€. All films with english subtitles if not in english OV.

Between July 15th and September 9th every Wednesday at 9.30pm on the terrace of the restaurant Friedrich (in case of bad wheather inside!) at the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Alexanderstraße 1. Service charge: 3€. All films with english subtitles if not in english OV.

On Sunday, July 5th, the final day of the Dialogues with Films - Four Decades of the Forum symposium, a central panel discussion on "Independent Film and Festivals" will be held with: Jia Zhangke, Sharon Lockhart, Jean-Marie Téno, Jasmila Žbanić, Christoph Terhechte, the head of the Forum and Ulrich Gregor, the founder of the Forum.

You can congratulate the Forum on its 40th Birthday, share your memories and anecdotes and discuss what the Forum means to you with other users in the Forum anniversary guest book, which can be found at Happy Birthday.

The texts are an appetiser for the Dialoges with Films - Four Decades of the Forum, with the curators describing how they came to choose the films, their personal intepretations of them as well as their relationship to the Forum. The texts can be found on the pages for the individual films.

Brigitte Bertele's film Night Before Eyes, which received its world premiere at the Forum in 2008, has won the Studio Hamburg Young Filmmakers' Award for Best Screenplay.

The Forum is to be honoured at this year's Norwegian Short Film Festival, to be held in Grimstad from June 10th-16th, with a screening of Burrowing and a presentation given by Christoph Terhechte.

To celebrate the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Forum, the "Dialogues with Films: 4 Decades of the International Forum of New Cinema" symposium will be held at Kino Arsenal from July 1st – 5th.