19.–21. August 2026, at Arsenal Filminstitut

Introduction to Humanities. From the Film Archive of Living Environments 

35mm projection in single-act presentation with crossfade

The 3-day workshop (22–24 July 2026) is intended to provide insight into the activities and preparations for an analog film screening, as they are conducted in this form in most cinematheques worldwide.

In his first feature-length desktop documentary for cinema, filmmaker Kevin B. Lee delves into the historical traces of extremist propaganda and the efforts of those resisting its violent impacts.

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

In Punku (the Quechua word for ‘gateway’), J.D. Fernández Molero unnervingly explores being young in contemporary Peru, with its jumble of late-stage capitalism, traditional culture, and strongly defined gender roles. Here, indigenous teenagers broadcast their lives on TikTok and homeopathic potions are as trusted as modern medicine. Tinged with autobiographical touches, Punku is the story of unlikely friendship between Iván and Meshia, who find commonality as outsiders. 

On January 1st, 2026,  Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art will become the Arsenal Filminstitut. With this new name, the institution reinforces its future profile and is to be grasped to an even greater extent as a central location for film education, research and a multi-faceted practice that embraces curatorial, artistic and experimental forms of contemporary film culture and how these are communicated.  

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.