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)

Film screenings 2026

Cinema Teams

Milan Bath, Stefan Bresinski, Marcel Golbs, Hannah Hauertmann, Emma Hinze, Frieda Knapp, Ak Knol, Greta Paul, Sandra Schmidt, Kamelia Tavitian, Klara Teigler, Zeze Schröter, Sonja Schreiber, Hannah Hohenhövel, Irma Weiche, Sel Alizadeh, Paula Engelke, Sina Raeder, Sandra Schmidt, Cassia Callenius, Mathilda Eifler, Jakob Friedrich Steinkötter

Moderators Film Talks

Members of the selection committee and: Michael Baute, Wolfgang Hamdorf, Birgit Kohler, Gary Vanisian, Afsun Moshiry, Anke Rauthmann, Borjana Gakovic, Charlotte Hafner, Laura Palys, Gaby Babic, Julia Schneider, Lisabona Rahman, Srikanth Srinivasan, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

Interpreters

Dasom Yang, Pamela Biénzobas, Katharina Müller, Magdalena Scharf, Masayo Kajimura, Merve de Grave, Mariko Wakayama, Patrycja Rozwora

Projectionists and Print Checks

Matthias Wyder, Bodo Pagels, Anselm Heller

Photographers

Dario Lehner (Forum), Leo Hugendubel (Forum Expanded events)

Editorial Team Website

Editor-in-chief 

Barbara Wurm

Administration

Kerstin Stolt

Editorial Team

Valentina Djordjević, Ted Fendt, Anna Hoffmann, Annina Lehmann, Alena Martens, Iris Ströbel, Gerd Werner Schnabel, Gary Vanisian, Ulrich Ziemons

Translations

Andreas Bredenfeld, Claire Cahm, James Lattimer, Stefan Pethke

Acknowledgements

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

Cem Altınsaray (Istanbul), Hiroyasu Ando (Tokyo), Alemberg Ang (Manila), Gaby Babić (Frankfurt/M.), Simone Baumann (Munich), Tilman Baumgärtel (Berlin), Marjorie Bendeck (Berlin), Madeleine Bernstorff (Berlin), Catherine Bizern (Paris), Guy Karim Borlee (Bologna), Aleksandra Božović (Podgorica), Andreas Bühlmann (Zurich), Clarisse Chapaz (Berlin), Aaron Cutler (Sao Paolo), Merlind David (Berlin), Emilie Dauptain (Vienna), Sandra den Hamer (Amsterdam), Anaïs Desrieux (Paris), Ute Dilger (Cologne), Dennis Doros (New York), Rabih El-Khoury (Berlin), Bettina Ellerkamp (Berlin), Daniela Elstner (Paris), Basak Emre (Istanbul), Marko Eraković (Podgorica), Yulia Evina Bhara (Jakarta), Pınar Evrenosoğlu (Istanbul), Sylvia Faßl-Vogler (Vienna), Azin Feizabadi (Berlin), Katharina Fichtner (Berlin), Sebastian Fischer (Cologne), Alberto Gemmi (Bologna), Melanie Nepinak Hadley (Winnipeg), Sang-jun Han (Seoul), Lissandra Haulica (Berlin), Sylva Häutle (Munich), Adelheid Heftberger (Berlin), Jörg Heitmann (Berlin), Amy Heller (New York), Mathilde Henrot (London), Tobias Hering (Berlin), Jimmy Hirayama (Paris), Marcie Jost (Werkleitz), Aline Juchler (Zurich), Hanseok Jung (Busan), Vanja Kaludjercic (Rotterdam), Melik Karapetyan (Jerewan), Ellen Kim (Seoul), Kumi Kitamura (Tokyo), Chanel Kong (Hong Kong), Yuliia Kovalenko (Odessa), Donsaron Kovitvanitcha (Bangkok), Armağan Lale (Istanbul), Anne Laurent Delage (Vienna), Anke Leweke (Berlin), Malve Lippmann (Berlin), Anja Lückenkemper (Auckland), Maha Maamoun (Cairo), Reem Magued (Cairo), Almagul Menlibayeva (Almaty), Nathalie Mierop (Amsterdam), Olaf Möller (Cologne/Helsinki), Afsun Moshiry (Berlin), Boris Nelepo (Lissabon), Cristina Nord (Nairobi), Luc Paquier (Berlin), Jin Park (Seoul), Jinhae Park (Seoul), Stefan Pethke (Berlin), Charlotte Procter (London), Jana Ptačková (Prague), Marcin Pienkowski (Wroclaw), Olimpia Pont Chafer (Berlin), Marten Rabarts (Rotterdam), György Ráduly (Budapest), Lisabona Rahman (Berlin), Claudia Reinhard (Berlin), Julian Ross (Amsterdam), Laurent Rueff (Zurich), Isabelle Ruiz (Montreal), Yuka Sakano (Tokyo), Elad Samorzik (Paris), Marketa Santrochova (Prague), Myriam Sassine (Beirut), Sandra Sayej (Beirut), Marc Siegmund (Seoul), Alessandra Speciale (Venice), Thanos Stavropoulos (Thessaloniki), Darja Suković (Podgorica), Can Sungu (Berlin), Kerry Swanson (Toronto), Andrei Tănăsescu (Bukarest), Derya Tarım (Istanbul), Christoph Terhechte (Marseille), Eduardo Valente (Niteroi), Anne Vassevière (Berlin), Angeliki Vergou (Thessaloniki), Dorothee Wenner (Berlin), Mark Williams (Wellington), Linda Winkler (Berlin), Jacob Wong (Hong Kong), Ala Younis (Amman), Peter Zorn (Werkleitz)