In 2019, a curator drew our attention to the fact that we have what is probably the last copy of Prem Kapoor's debut BADNAM BASTI in our archive. The film is considered India's first queer film. The artfully crafted musical melodrama, an adaptation of Kamleshwar's 1957 novella of the same name, revolves around a love triangle.

Beth B's film SALVATION! was shown at the Forum in 1987. In our podcast series "Arsenal 60ff. — Film Talks from 5 Decades", we are publishing the audience discussion with Beth B, the main actor Stephen McHattie and the passionate Berlin film audience, moderated by Ulrich Gregor.

The 15th Arsenal Summer School on the topic "After the Periphery, the Center: Cinema as Urban History " will take place from August 28 to 30, 2024 at Kino Arsenal and silent green.

We are in mourning.

Resounding Archives: The Politics of Listening to the Moving Image
From 17 to 22 September 2024 at silent green, Kino Arsenal, SINEMA TRANSTOPIA, Gerichtstraße 35 and migas listening bar

Archival Assembly #3 turns its focus to the importance of sound and language within the archival practices of international film history.

The program for Archival Assembly #3:

www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/cinema/film-series/archival-assembly-3/

In addition to the Silver and Golden Bears, various independent juries award prizes at the Berlinale. Forum and Forum Expanded films received several awards.

This year's Caligari film prize goes to SHAHID by Narges Kalhor. She receives the prize for a  "complex, multi-voiced work" that leads us "into the depths of one's own biography and the collective past."

The 30 films in the main programme of the 54^th Forum show how political awareness and cinematic form are connected, the diverse ways in which world knowledge can be experienced and why the most determined women are often to be found in the most remote corners of the globe.