This participatory, discussion-based and interdisciplinary six-week workshop, led by Mohammad Shawky Hassan, will take place every Tuesday and Thursday from 1 September to 24 September.

Safi Faye’s KADDU BEYKAT is not only considered a milestone in African film history; it is a work of global historical and artistic significance. Last year, it won the third edition of the Locarno Heritage Restoration Contest and was digitally restored by Cinegrell. The 79th Locarno Film Festival presented the premiere of the restored version on August 8, 2026.

Following its world premiere at the Berlinale Forum, where IF PIGEONS TURNED TO GOLD won both the Caligari Film Prize and the Berlinale Documentary Film Prize, Pepa Lubojacki’s debut film will open on November 5, accompanied by the Caligari Film Prize Tour.

Queer Cinema pioneer Barbara Hammer (1939–2019) started making films at the age of 27, coming out as a lesbian in her early 30s: “My life has been lived in film.” The sheer wealth of film material of her life also forms the basis for BARBARA FOREVER, Brydie O’Connor’s debut feature which achieves the mammoth task of doing justice to her dazzling and charismatic personality.

Arsenal is offering a workshop in 16-mm shooting, processing, archiving, print inspection and cleaning, digitization and projection in cinema from October 3 – 7.

Spurred by her Alzheimer-afflicted mother’s strange evocation of home-invading tigers, filmmaker Madhusree Dutta travels to Assam, India. Here, she learns about the Flying Tigers: US aircraft that transferred military supplies during WWII across the perilous Himalayas, from Assam to Kunming, China.

19.–21. August 2026, at Arsenal Filminstitut

Introduction to Humanities. From the Film Archive of Living Environments 

From August 31 to September 4, 2026, the Kino 16 workshop will offer an introduction to artistic work with 16 mm film.

Cynthia Beatt’s debut centers on Queenie (Tilda Swinton), who, after years of intimacy, feels nothing but emptiness in her relationship with Burrsie (Lutz Weidlich). They decide: “It’s time for a party.”