Video art, experimental and underground films: Once again the area where film and art intersect finds its place at the Berlinale. Called into being in 2006, Forum expanded serves the critical commentary and expansion of cinematography.

My Country, My Country by Laura Poitras, which had its world premiere in the Forum 2006, was nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science for the Oscar as best documentary feature.

World cinematography of sharp contrasts and astonishing parallels: this year's program of the Berlinale Forum comprises films from 29 countries including 25 world premieres and 15 debut films.

This year for the first time, the daily Berlin newspaper "Der Tagesspiegel" appoints a readers' jury which will award the best film of the 37th Forum. The award is endowed with 3.000 Euro.

With Don Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan returns to the Berlinale. Farhan Akhtar's remake of the legendary Indian gansterfilm will be shown at the 37th Forum.

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With the European premiere of Guy Maddin's "Brand Upon the Brain!" and the performance by Isabella Rossellini in the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Forum presents a live spectacle with an orchestra, a castrato's voice, and foley artists.

One of the first entries selected for the 37th International Forum of New Cinema is Ad Lib Night (Aju teukbyeolhan sonnim) by Korean director Lee Yoon-ki. His debut This Charming Girl was shown at the Forum in 2005.

Screening nine film classics by Okamoto Kihachi from the 1950s and '60s, the upcoming Forum once again devotes a focused program to a Japanese old master.

A number of last Forum's films have been released theatrically in 2006 so far with Windows on Monday being the latest. Soon more films will open in cinemas, distributed by Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek: John & Jane and Lenz.