Several films presented as part of the Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded have been digitally restored and are now available at arsenal distribution: EGARO MILE (Eleven Miles, India 1991) and TALES FROM PLANET KOLKATA (India 1993) by Ruchir Joshi, NUESTRA VOZ DE TIERRA, MEMORIA Y FUTURO (Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future, Columbia 1981) by Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva, THE SECOND JOURNEY (TO ULURU) (Australia 1981) by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, TAMBAKU CHAAKILA OOB ALI (India 1982), IDHI KATHA MATRAMENA (India 1983) by Deepa Dhanraj as well as seven Sudanese short films: three by Ibrahim Shaddad – JAGDPARTIE (DDR 1964), JAMAL (Sudan 1981) and AL HABIL 1985 (Sudan 1985) – three by Eltayeb Mahdi – AL DHAREEH (Egypt 1977), AL MAHATTA (Sudan 1989) and ARBA’A MARAT LIL-ATFAL (Sudan 1979) – as well as WA LAKIN ALARDH TADUR (USSR 1978) by Suliman Elnour.

Furthermore, as part of this month’s Youssef Chahine retrospective we have been able to acquire 35 mm prints (with English subtitles) of BAB AL-HADID (Cairo Station, 1958), AL ARD (The Land, 1970), AL ASFOUR (The Sparrow, 1972), ISKINDEREYA … LEH? (Alexandria … Why?, 1979), ISKINDEREYA KAMAN WE KAMAN (Alexandria Again and Forever, 1989) and CAIRO AS SEEN BY CHAHINE (1991). The digital restorations and acquisitions are part of Arsenal’s “Archive außer sich” project.

This year's Forum Expanded exhibition at the silent green Betonhalle as well as the Ebensperger Rohmberg Gallery, the Luxoom Lab and SAVVY Contemporary on the same grounds can be seen until March 9.

The group exhibition "ANTIKINO (The Siren’s Echo Chamber)" gathers new works by Monira Al Qadiri, Heike Baranowsky, James Benning, Félix Blume, Harun Farocki, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman, Shadi Habib Allah, Catherine Sullivan, Clarissa Thieme, Diana Vidrascu, Ute Waldhausen, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Evan Calder Williams and Anne Low, Billy Woodberry, Ala Younis, Akram Zaatari, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam.