November 11th we present at Cinema Arsenal the manifesta 7 film program curated by Anselm Franke and Hila Peleg for Fortezza / Franzensfeste.
In attendance: the curators and the artists Harun Farocki, Karoe Goldt und Karl Kels

It's Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But The Situation In Which He Lives: Art, Cinema and Context Now - PROGRAMME CHANGE

Victoire Terminus, Kinshasa by Renaud Barret and Florent De La Tullaye has been selected as the winner of this year's Grierson Award for Best Feature-length Documentary at the 52nd London Film Festival.

The First Steps Award 2008 for Best Feature Film by a young German director was given to Brigitte Bertele and script-writer Johanna Stuttmann for their film Night Before Eyes (Nacht vor Augen).

Political protest and right-wing threats had aborted the Japan premiere of Li Ying’s Yasukuni in April. Subsequent public debate, however, has encouraged the film’s belated cinema release and nationwide attention. Once again, August 15 marks the anniversary of Japan’s military surrender in WW II – a date notorious for the right-wing’s pilgrimage to the Yasukuni shrine.

At the 23rd International Documentary Film Festival Munich the "Special Documentary Award", sponsored by BLM (Bavarian Authority for Private Broadcasting) and worth 2,500 Euro, went to Občan Havel (Citizen Havel) by Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek.

For all of those working with film and for everybody who always wanted to learn how

Friday, May 16th, 7pm, Cinema Arsenal 1

the filmic oevre of the visual music, electronic art and experimental cinema pioneer now in distribution by arsenal experimental

At the 10th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival the Signis Jury gave special mention to Diorthosi (Correction) by Thanos Anastopoulos. Corridor #8 by Boris Despodov received the HBO Documentary Films Emerging Artist Award at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto.