A total of 34 works from 20 countries are being presented at the Forum Expanded cinemas, at the silent green Betonhalle, as well as at SAVVY Contemporary and in the Marshall McLuhan Salon of the Embassy of Canada in Berlin.

Queer flamboyance in Rio de Janeiro, inverted ethnography in Bärwalde and the camera-aided dissections of Sohrab Shahid Saless: this year's Forum Special explores marginalised areas of film history. The “Fiktionsbescheinigung” series continues, while two newly restored historical films round off the programme.

What does it mean to program a filmfestival if your country is at war? We talk with Yuliia Kovalenko who is part of our preview team in Odessa how the film community in the Ukraine deals with the situation.

Testimonies on the state terror of the military dictatorship in Argentina, road trips through Los Angeles during the pandemic, and a science-fiction essay on life in the Eremocene. The 53d Berlinale Forum takes place from February 16 to 26, 2023.

The first selected films and installations include works by Lei Lei, Deborah Stratman and Eduardo Williams. The Forum Expanded group exhibition will once again be presented at silent green Betonhalle. The show opens on February 15, 2023.

The Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art is planning to move into new premises in the silent green Kulturquartier in 2025. 

There were a number of different reasons for the naming of Kino Arsenal in 1970. One of them was the allusion to the silent film by the Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko from 1929. We asked the author and film critic Bert Rebhandl to look at the film again from today's perspective. The result is a comprehensive research and re-examination.

The topic of this summer festival by the Berlinale Forum & Forum Expanded is film and nature and the human perspective. In our podcast we are talking with director Dane Komljen, whose film AFTERWATER opens the summer festival.

The 13^th Arsenal Summer School will take place August 17–19, 2022, at Arsenal cinema and silent green, under the title "The Unique Object in an Era of Ubiquity".