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We are opening our audio archive with the podcast "Arsenal 60ff". The audience discussions during the Berlinale Forum are legendary – enthusiastic and often entertaining. We are presenting a selection and contextualizing them in conversations with experts.

Big changes are coming for Berlinale Forum: Cristina Nord is leaving as the Forum head, Barbara Wurm is taking over. In our podcast we are talking to the two of them together about what is special about the Berlinale Forum and where it is heading, but also looking back on four exciting and challenging years.

Assem Hendawi’s Film SIMIA: STRATAGEM FOR UNDESTINING in this year’s Forum Expanded programme uses a speculative AI to think about alternative futures. In our podcast we talked to him about robots telling dad jokes and why Samuel Beckett is the ultimate a human ChatGPT.

The representation of violence, suffering, disease or physical changes confront filmmakers with ethical and aesthetical questions. Esther Buss sketches out the relationship between corporeality and language in five documentaries showing at the 53rd Berlinale Forum.  

“No matter where you go, the screen is always white.” Julian Ross on Takahiko Iimura’s short stay in Berlin, that shaped his artistic practice in film and video in a transitional moment of his career.

"It takes just a familiar word, a sound, to collapse space": Devika Girish explores how the temporal experience of immigration has been represented in films from the 53rd edition of the Berlinale Forum.

Although international film students at Potsdam-Babelsberg looked at East Germany differently, their work has yet to receive a great deal of attention. Fabian Tietke on the political context in which their films were made and the two rediscoveries from the 1980s showing as part of Fiktionsbescheinigung.

Simon Rothöhler on Anthropocene figures, digital imaging technologies and material aesthetic differences in the films Poznámky z Eremocénu (Notes from Eremocene) by Viera Čákanyová and SUPER NATURAL by Jorge Jácome.

The Forum special programme "Fiktionsbescheinigung" sets out to counter the white gaze on German film history. Film curators Karina Griffith, Jacqueline Nsiah and Can Sungu discuss this year’s selection of films with Cristina Nord.

On the films made by the children of the disappeared, a state prosecutor as a hero for the big screen and the significance of the Forum film EL JUICIO in the process of coming to terms with the legacy of the Argentinean dictatorship. By Luciano Monteagudo

What does it mean to program a filmfestival if your country is at war? We talk with Yuliia Kovalenko who is part of our preview team in Odessa how the film community in the Ukraine deals with the situation.

The topic of this summer festival by the Berlinale Forum & Forum Expanded is film and nature and the human perspective. In our podcast we are talking with director Dane Komljen, whose film AFTERWATER opens the summer festival.

A podcast about the Forum program 2022 with Cristina Nord, head of Berlinale Forum. We are talking about non-human perspectives, the second year of Covid films, the surprising amount of literature adaptations. Also: how have our viewing habits changed and what does it mean for film culture? 

How have new developments in society and politics changed our view of film history? What role do Black Lives Matter, #MeToo or post-colonial perspectives play in how we perceive films? Curator Djamila Grandits, filmmaker Nina Menkes, author Girish Shambu and filmmaker Christoph Hochhäusler look for answers to these questions. Moderator: Bert Rebhandl.

The Forum special programme Fiktionsbescheinigung is now entering its second year. Curators Biene Pilavci and Enoka Ayemba talk to Forum head Cristina Nord about reverse brain drains, freedom, strategic essentialism and collective learning.

Mark Terkessidis on the lasting relevance of the films made by Hito Steyerl at the turn of the century.  

An examination of the sort of cinema the lockdown era has produced. By Jonathan Romney

An exploration of the possibilities of nonhuman perspectives in cinema. By Sasha Litvintseva

Ala Younis and Ulrich Ziemons took over the head of Forum Expanded in summer 2021. In our podcast, we talk about their plans, political art and the new Forum Expanded selection.

A tribute to the filmmaker Tatjana Turanskyj, who died far too early. By Christine Lang

The curators Karina Griffith and Can Sungu about the film program “Fiktionsbescheinigung. 16 Cinematic Perspectives on Germany”

Some thoughts on how film culture can open itself up to the demands of the present. By Cristina Nord

“Many People Who Left Germany Could Have Made a Huge Contribution to the Country” – Idrissou Mora Kpai in conversation with Enoka Ayemba and Karina Griffith

Using his family history as an example, Louis Henderson explains why true solidarity does not mean that we need to be equivalent but how our shared experiences and common interests can be the basis of unity. 

Karina Griffith about film as witness to an affective debt

A plea for transnational archival work. By Can Sungu

How do you make a film festival in Corona times? (In German)