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 – Institute for Film and Video Art 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:
Cristina Nord (Section Head)
Anna Hoffmann (Program Coordinator)
Email: forum(at)arsenal-berlin.de

Contact for Forum Expanded:
Uli Ziemons & Ala Younis (Section Heads)
Email: forumexpanded(at)arsenal-berlin.de

Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin
Telephone: +49-30-26955-200

Berlinale Forum 2023

Organisation

Cristina Nord (head), Roberto Anjari-Rossi, Mathilde Chevallier, Silvia Cojocaru, Anna Hoffmann, Katrin Lang, Claudio Muscogiuri, Gerd Werner Schnabel, Auste Serapinaite

Film Selection

Selection Committee: Joan Aguilar, Anna Hoffmann, James Lattimer, Cristina Nord, Jacqueline Nsiah

Programme Advisors: Enoka Ayemba, Alia Ayman, Bernd Buder, Jesse Cumming, Birgit Kohler, Jan Künemund, Rizki Lazuardi, Luciano Monteagudo, Arindam Sen, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Can Sungu, Müge Turan

Fiktionsbescheinigung: Jacqueline Nsiah, Can Sungu, Karina Griffith

With the Cooperation of Wellington Almeida, Udita Bhargava, Jutta Doberstein, Susana Gomes, Tanja C. Horstmann, Marie Kloos, Yuliia Kovalenko, Claudius Lünstedt, Deniz Sertkol-Bergner, Kerstin Stolt, Andrei Tănăsescu

Press and Publicity

Valie Djordjević (social media), Jan-Philipp Kohlmann (public relations), Alena Martens (press)

Forum Expanded 2023

Curators

Karina Griffith, Shai Heredia, Ala Younis, Ulrich Ziemons

Team

Ala Younis, Ulrich Ziemons (heads) Charlotte Bohn (organisation), Angelika Ramlow (accreditation and distribution), Ndidi J. Iroh (guest management), Carolina Redondo (exhibition design and head of production), Catharina Barich (assistant exhibition production), Iris Ströbel (editor), Nina Eckhardt (press and publicity), Valie Djordjević (social media), Clemens Stetzuhn (internship), Jasmina Al Quaisi, Carlos Busquets, Ignacia Carramiñana, Fine Freiberg, Nathan Gray, Josephin Hanke, Jens Heinzel, Anka Mirkin, Mascha Nehls, Ute Waldhausen, Micha Werner, Alessio Zannini (exhibition set-up)

Film screenings 2023

Cinema Teams

Aghyad Abou Koura, Milan Bath, Petra Beck, Linda Biju Remani, Stefan Bresinski, Viktor Bone, Irene Cruz, Jan Eilhardt, Salome Gersch, Marcel Golbs, Nele Sophie Kaiser, Friederike Knapp, Johanna Misselwitz, Sandra Schmidt, Kamelia Tavitian, Klara Teigler, Rafaela Wahl Herrera, Andreas Werner, u.a.

Q&As

Members of the selection committee and: Alia Ayman, Michael Baute, Bernd Buder, Jesse Cumming, Karina Griffith, Wolfgang Hamdorf, Tina Kaiser, Yuliia Kovalenko, Roger Koza, Jan Künemund, Annette Lingg, Birgit Kohler, Birgit Möller, Constanze Ruhm, Arindam Sen, Can Sungu, Andrei Tanasescu, Gary Vanisian, Sven von Reden

Projectionists and Print Checks

Johannes Bock, Alexander Boldt, Anselm Heller, Bodo Pagels, Nikolas Schuppe

Photographers

Dario Lehner (Forum), Corinna Mehl (Forum Expanded exhibitions), Leonie Hugendubel (Forum Expanded events)

Editorial Team Website

Editor-in-chief 

Cristina Nord

Administration

Kerstin Stolt 

Editorial Team

Charlotte Bohn, Jesse Cumming, Valie Djordjević, Hans-Joachim Fetzer, Hanna Keller, Jan-Philipp Kohlmann, James Lattimer, Annette Lingg, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Iris Ströbel, Sven von Reden, Uli Ziemons

Translations

Esra Akkaya, Alexandra Bootz, Tomke Braun, Allison Brown, Claire Cahm, Mathilde Chevallier, Deborah Cohen, Clara Drechsler, Lukas Foerster, Kathrin Hadeler, Harald Hellmann, Daniel Hendrickson, Anna Catharina Hofmann, Andrea Honecker, Hilda Hoy, Millay Hyatt, Ekkehard Knörer, James Lattimer, Dominikus Müller, Stefan Pethke, Sven von Reden, Eric Rosencrantz, Gregor Runge, Matthew James Scown, Donna Stonecipher, Anne Thomas, Meret Weber, Sabine Weier

Acknowledgements

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

Ido Abram (Amsterdam), Elena Agudio (Florence), Josephine Aleyt (Berlin), Angela Anderson (Berlin), Amra Bakšić Čamo (Sarajevo), Lars Barthel (Berlin), Danielle Belanger (Montreal), Marjorie Bendeck (Berlin), Catherine Bizern (Paris), Ahmet Boyacioglu (Ankara), Ilka Brombach (Potsdam), Jesse Broissot (Toronto), Tobias Büchner (Berlin), Andreas Bühlmann (Zurich), Elle Burchill (New York), Carla Cattani (Rome), Inhan Cho (Seoul), Thomas Choury (Paris), Jesse Cumming (Cairo), Merlind David (Berlin), Christian De Schutter (Brussels), Jean Ducharme (Berlin), Bettina Ellerkamp (Berlin), Başak Emre (Antalya), Pınar Evrenosoğlu (Antalya), Katharina Fichtner (Berlin), Anselm Franke (Berlin), Asako Fujioka (Tokyo), Hirasawa Go (Tokyo), Maureen Gonsalves (Bangalore), Nina Goslar (Mainz), Griselda Guerrasio (Rome), Amine Hattou (Algier), Ai Hamaguchi (Tokyo), Tobias Hering (Berlin), Jörg Heitmann (Berlin), Maike Mia Höhne (Hamburg), Yort Jansen (Brussels), HUH Moon-young (Busan), Shozo Ichiyama (Tokyo), Anna Jäger (Berlin), Sara Jäpelt (Berlin), KIM Joeun (Busan), KIM Minjee (Jeonju), Woody Kim (Busan), Diana Kluge (Berlin), Yuliia Kovalenko (Odesa), Katja Krause (Potsdam), Armağan Lale (Istanbul), Renan Laru-an (Berlin), Anne Laurent Delage (Vienna), Robin Lee (Busan), Anke Leweke (Berlin), Anja Lückenkemper (Berlin), Carole Lunt (Berlin), Jovan Marjanović (Sarajevo), Maša Marković (Sarajevo), Cristina Marx (Potsdam), Riya Matthew (Bangalore), Nathalie Mierop (Amsterdam), Tina Mettner (Berlin), Andrea Monti (New York), Sung Moon (Jeonju), Aily Nash (New York), Abhishek Nilamber (Berlin), Garbiñe Ortega (Bilbao), Hannah Osenberg (Berlin), PARK Ki yong (Busan), Gonzalo Pedro de Amatria (Madrid), Mark Peranson (Berlin), Matías Piñeiro (New York), Olimpia Pont Chafer (Berlin), Rosella Rinaldi (Rom), Sofia Saa (Berlin), Yuka Sakano (Tokyo), Rasha Salti (Berlin), Eva Sangiorgi (Vienna), Marketa Santrochova (Prague), Gordon Schirmer (Berlin), Marc-André Schmachtel (Munich), Bert Schmidt (Frankfurt/Main), Björn Schmitt (Frankfurt/Main), Peter B. Schumann (Berlin), Nicolas Schuppe (Nürnberg), Herbert Schwarze (Berlin), Genne Speers (Toronto), Kerry Swanson (Toronto), Marten Taege (Wiesbaden), Andrei Tănăsescu (Bukarest), Peter Taylor (Berwick), Christoph Terhechte (Leipzig), Luís Urbano (Lisbon), Eduardo Valente (Niteroi), Miguel Valverde (Lisbon), Edith van der Heijde (Amsterdam), Monica Villares (Zurich), Klaus Volkmer (Munich), Dorothee Wenner (Berlin), Mark Williams (Wellington), Linda Winkler (Berlin), Jacob Wong (Hongkong), Barbara Wurm (Berlin)