Forum and Forum Expanded will present a selection of this year's programme in Brussels as part of the 'German Film Festivals on Tour'-series, once again. Besides screenings of Forum films at the BOZAR cinéma, a selection of works from the Forum Expanded exhibition ANTIKINO (The Siren’s Echo Chamber) will be on show at Cinéma Galeries from September 4 - October 6.

The film programme at BOZAR opens on September 10 with Jean-Gabriel Périot's NOS DÉFAITES (Our Defeats) followed by a discussion with the director and Birgit Kohler, who was responsible for this year's programme as the interim head of the Forum. Further films to be presented on September 11 and 12 are DELPHINE ET CAROLE, INSOUMUES (Delphine and Carole) by Callisto Mc Nulty, A PORTUGUESA (The Portuguese Woman) by Rita Azevedo Gomes, ERDE (Earth) by Nikolaus Geyrhalter and MOTHER I AM SUFFOCATING. THIS IS MY LAST FILM ABOUT YOU by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese.

The film critic, writer, and curator Cristina Nord is the new director of the Forum. Since it was founded in 1971, the Forum has taken place as part of the Berlin International Film Festival, curated and organised independently by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art.

Cristina Nord (born in 1968) served as film editor for the cultural section of the daily “taz. die tageszeitung” in Berlin from 2002 to 2015. Her writing deals with a broad spectrum of film forms from the present and from film history. Alongside her award-winning print media work, Cristina Nord has been active as a lecturer and curator for a variety of institutions, including the Freie Universität Berlin, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and the Duisburger Filmwoche. After moving to the Goethe-Institut in 2015, Cristina Nord was the Brussels-based director of programming focusing on southwestern Europe, where she conceived and realised projects from all cultural sectors, all the while remaining closely associated with film and cinema.