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.

Communities and the convoluted ways in which they end up having to live in order to secure their continued existence are the pulse of this year’s programme. In the films of this year’s programme, everyday objects and materials become metaphorically repurposed as a means of exploring hidden networks.

This year’s Forum Special shows films that take a stance – from the 1970s to today. As forms of resistance, they draw on relationships and intimacy, listen and speak out: transgenerational, activist-minded, creative, persistent.

Arsenal is moving out of the Filmhaus on Potsdamer Platz by the end of 2024 and will open its new cinema in the West Hall of the silent green Kulturquartier in Berlin-Wedding in 2026. In mid-December 2024, we will say goodbye to 25 years at Potsdamer Platz and will move on into a year as a traveling cinema playing at various locations in Berlin, Germany and internationally.

Seven films from the upcoming Forum Expanded programme have been confirmed. The works selected shed light on both the palpable and more ephemeral effects of power, grief, and dispossession.

From biopics to musicals, from road movies to images of closeness: the first eight films of the 54th Berlinale Forum show historical awareness, are culturally wide ranging and take a stand in socially and politically challenging times.

On November 30, before the screening of Birgit Hein's film BABY, I WILL MAKE YOU SWEAT, the publication "Viva Birgit Hein", edited by Mike Holboom, will be presented.