Guy Maddin's Brand Upon the Brain! from the 2007’s Forum programme is brought into the cinemas by the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art e.V. It is on show at the Berlin cinema fsk from 17th December to 6th January.

Soundless Wind Chime from this year's Forum programme is shown at the Gay Film Night in German cinemas in December. In Berlin Bernhard Bulling, the main actor, is expected as special guest at the show on the 18th of December.

Harun Farocki's Zum Vergleich received the ARTE Documentary Award at this year's Duisburger Filmwoche, a festival for German language documentaries. The film had its world premiere at the Forum this year.

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.