arsenal distribution is releasing YOURS IN SISTERHOOD by Irene Lusztig as of December 6, another film which premiered at this year's Forum.

Irene Lusztig’s documentary set-up succeeds in bringing a wealth of experiences from an earlier generation of the feminist movement into a complex dialogue with the present: In the film women from all walks of life read out and comment upon letters originally sent to the liberal feminist magazine “Ms.” in the 70s in a range of everyday locations across the US.

Flowing cascades of signs, rotating words, dancing letters, scratched, embossed, double-exposed, superimposed, animated – from the very beginning of cinema, printed characters have been freed from their static identity and made dynamic in multiple ways. Letters that succumb to movement have very different functions in this new system: they open or close films, act as a commentary or a metaphor (of storytelling), as providers of information or graphic elements, as a dramatic tool or an emotionalizing factor. Writing in film opens up new areas of association, posing questions about visibility and structure, perception and materialism, mise-en-scene and innovation. This is what we want to explore in the Magical History Tour’s excursion into the moving world of letters, presenting examples of how writing has been dealt with in fiction, avant-garde and experimental cinema as well as in "classic" writing or Lettrist films.

The Horn of Africa region is more known for its armed conflicts and political, social, and humanitarian crises than for its cinema culture. Even if the number of local productions is far more modest than that of the continent’s Francophone countries, a lively film scene has sprung up in recent years. AFRIKAMERA 2018 – The Horn of Africa presents a selection of current features and documentaries from and about the region as well as from neighboring East African countries such as Kenya, Uganda, and Ruanda.

AGGREGAT by Marie Wilke can be seen in selected cinemas across Germany from November 29. The film received its world premiere at this year's Forum and was shown and awarded at numerous film festivals since.

Calmly and soberly, AGGREGAT collects astutely observed and carefully arranged scenes from the daily life of media and politics in contemporary Germany.

CLASSICAL PERIOD by Ted Fendt picked up the main award of the International Film Festivals in Belfort. The film received its world premiere at this year's Forum.

"CLASSICAL PERIOD is a long, circling conversation around, away from, and back to an 1864 translation of Dante’s “Divine Comedy”. The translation is by Henry Longfellow, its endnotes are copious, the result of an over twenty-year engagement with the book.

The film presents a portrait of Cal, a friend since a decade, and some friends of ours. It is also a chance to record some places important to me: my grandmother’s house in South Philadelphia, the upstairs room of my friend Michael Carwile’s apartment.

People meet in sun-filled rooms, on street corners at dawn, and in shadowy apartments – their status as characters in a fiction always being thrown off-kilter by a camera and a microphone whose gaze and ears linger in a grey zone between objectivity and subjectivity." (Ted Fendt)