Berlinale Forum & Forum Expanded

The Berlinale Forum, or the International Forum of New Cinema to give it its full name, is an event organized by Arsenal Filminstitut as part of the Berlin International Film Festival. Since 2006, Forum Expanded has extended the program to encompass experimental film and video art shown both in cinema and exhibition contexts. The Berlinale Forum is funded by the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (KBB) GmbH.

Films submitted to the Forum must have been completed within one year of the start of the festival, have a running time of at least 60 minutes, and may have not been shown previously in Europe, with the exception of the film’s country of origin. Film and video works submitted to Forum Expanded can be of all formats and lengths.

Contact for the Forum:
Barbara Wurm (Section Head)
Anna Hoffmann (Program Coordinator)
Email: forum(at)arsenal-berlin.de

Contact for Forum Expanded:
Uli Ziemons (Section Head)
Email: forumexpanded(at)arsenal-berlin.de

Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded
Gerichtstr. 53
13347 Berlin
Telephone: +49-30-26955-200

Berlinale Forum 2026

Organisation

Barbara Wurm (head), Silvia Cojocaru, Léonie Duflot, Clara Föhres, Anna Hoffmann, Claudio Muscogiuri, Laura Palys, Gerd Werner Schnabel, Auste Serapinaite, Gary Vanisian

Press and Publicity: Valentina Djordjević (social media & website), Alena Martens (editorial office), Mirna Schippers (press)

Film Selection

Wellington Almeida, Irina Bondas, Christiane Büchner, Yun-hua Chen, Jesse Cumming, Jutta Doberstein, Charlotte Hafner, Anna Hoffmann, Birgit Kohler, Yuliia Kowalenko, Asja Makarević, Luciano Monteagudo, Afsun Moshiry, Igor Soukhmanov, Srikanth Srinivasan, Fabian Tietke, Ansgar Vogt, Carolin Weidner, Katja Wiederspahn, Barbara Wurm

Forum Special: Gaby Babić, Christiane Büchner, Fabian Tietke, Barbara Wurm

Forum Expanded 2026

Curators

Karina Griffith, Shai Heredia, Ulrich Ziemons

Team

Ulrich Ziemons (head), Rachel Micallef Somerville (curatorial assistance, organisation and guest management), Angelika Ramlow (accreditation and distribution), Iris Ströbel, Charlotte Bohn (editorial office), Ann Roy (press & social media), Richard Gersch (exhibition coordination & production), August Kleist (intern), Daniel Hendrickson (translations)

Editorial Team Website

Editor-in-chief 

Barbara Wurm

Administration

Kerstin Stolt 

Editorial Team

Valentina Djordjević, Anna Hoffmann, James Lattimer, Alena Martens Iris Ströbel, Gerd Werner Schnabel, Gary Vanisian, Ulrich Ziemons

Translations

Andreas Bredenfeld, Claire Cahm, Clara Drechsler, Anna Galts, Harald Hellmann, Daniel Hendrickson, Andrea Honecker, Hilda Hoy, James Lattimer, Dominikus Müller, Stefan Pethke, Sven von Reden, Matthew James Scown, Donna Stonecipher, Anne Thomas

Acknowledgements

Forum and Forum Forum Expanded express their thanks to the following people and institutions: 

Gulnara Abikeyeva (Almaty), Ido Abram (Amsterdam), Yasaman Ahmadi (Berlin), Dirk Aßmann (Berlin), Ute Aurand (Berlin), Gaby Babić (Frankfurt/M.), Daria Badior (Kyiv), Danielle Belanger (Montreal), Marjorie Bendeck (Berlin), Madeleine Bernstorff (Berlin), Catherine Bizern (Paris), Charlotte Bohn (Berlin), Jesse Broissot (Toronto), Andreas Bühlmann (Zürich), Guillaume Cailleau (Berlin), Carla Cattani (Rome), Merlind David (Berlin), Christian De Schutter (Brüssel), Siw Dörte Diallo (Accra), Marina Drozdova (Cannes), Stefanie Eckert (Berlin), Nina Eckhardt (Berlin), Bettina Ellerkamp (Berlin), Katharina Fichtner (Berlin), Sebastian Fischer (Köln), Anselm Franke (Berlin), Angela Haardt (Berlin), Heike Friesel (Accra), Richard Gersch (Berlin), Maureen Gonsalves (Bangalore), Juan David Gonzales Monroy (Berlin), Griselda Guerrasio (Rome), Jörg Heitmann (Berlin), Maike Mia Höhne (Hamburg), Young-woo Kim (Seoul), Yuliia Kovalenko (Odesa), Daniel Krull (Accra), Armağan Lale (Istanbul), Anne Laurent Delage (Wien), Anke Leweke (Berlin), Carole Lunt (Berlin), Anja Lückenkemper (Berlin), Sarah Mersch (Tunis), Tina Mettner (Berlin), Nathalie Mierop (Amsterdam), Olaf Möller (Köln/Helsinki), Kathrin Mundt (Osnabrück), Boris Nelepo (Lisabon), Cristina Nord (Nairobi), Jacqueline Nsiah (Accra), Hannah Osenberg (Berlin), Mark Peranson (Berlin), Manon Piel (Berlin), Olimpia Pont Chafer (Berlin), Julian Ross (Amsterdam), Sofia Saa (Berlin), Yuka Sakano (Tokio), Rasha Salti (Berlin), Eva Sangiorgi (Wien), Marketa Santrochova (Prag), Julia Schaginurowa (Berlin), Herbert Schwarze (Berlin), Can Sungu (Berlin), Dietmar Schwärzler (Vienna), Andrei Tănăsescu (Bukarest), Peter Taylor (Berwick-Upon-Tweed), Meiske Taurisia (Jakarta), Christoph Terhechte (Leipzig), Eduardo Valente (Niteroi), Edith van der Heijde (Amsterdam), Dorothee Wenner (Berlin), Heike Winkel (Berlin), Linda Winkler (Berlin), Jacob Wong (Hongkong), Matthias Zeiske (Berlin)