For the second time the DW-Akademie organises a course during the Berlinale for African Film- and Television Market and Festival organisers – this year with twelve participants from Benin, Cameroon, Kenia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tansania and Zimbabwe.

Photos, Texts, catalogue pages and screening dates: with a click on "program" you'll find all information on the films of the 35th Forum.

In addition to 4kitchens, the 35th Forum presents in the Black Box Area of Arsenal cinema four video installations by international artists. Opening is on February 11.

At this year's Slamdance Film Festival On the Outs received two top prizes, the Grand Jury Award for best narrative feature and the Audience Award. The Forum presents the film as European Premiere.

From February 9 to 20 the theater HAU 1 presents a videowalk by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: "I'd like you to walk with me... Swivel the camera in this direction, follow the picture so that we can stay together."

The Berlinale's showcase is dedicated to Korean director Im Kwon-Taek. The different sections will show seven of his films. In February and March the Arsenal cinema presents an Im Kwon-Taek retrospective.

The program of the 35th Forum presents itself in leaner, rejuvenated form. Reducing the selection of films by more than a quarter in comparison with earlier years focuses the gaze on essentials: an innovative, global filmmaking eager to experiment and take unconventional paths outside the mainstream.

At the Mumbai International Film Festival the Award of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Award) was presented to Amu by Shonali Bose (India, 2004). The Film will have its International Premiere at the Forum.

Michael Cimino's monumental anti-Western from 1980 is still regarded as Hollywood's biggest financial flop – and, by critics, as a masterpiece. As a supplement, the documentation Final Cut by Michael Epstein will be shown as a European premiere.

Last year's Forum entry will open in German cinemas on January 20.