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Archival Assembly #4
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Archival Assembly #4 – Archives, otherwise
25 – 30 September 2026
Here and Now –  The Films of Christoph Hochhäusler
From September 3 to 24, we will be presenting a retrospective of Christoph Hochhäusler’s films. The director will be present at the Arsenal on September 3 and 4.
Opening of the new Arsenal Cinema
On May 3, we’re opening our new cinema in the Westhalle at silent green!

Tomorrow 09:00
Post-Memory, Post-Archive: Nigerian Film History (1960s–1980s) – Eleven Contemporary Perspectives
Arsenal-Foyer
Tomorrow 09:30
Symposium Panel 1: The UNREST Project: Restitution Dreaming as a Decolonial Practice
Panelists: Erica Carter (King’s College London, Hussein Shariffe Foundation, UNREST), Tamer El Said (Cimatheque - Alternative Film Center, UNREST cultural partner), Eiman Hussein (Shariffe Creative Collection, Hussein Shariffe Foundation), Judith Opoku-Boateng (University of Ghana)
Arsenal
Tomorrow 12:00
The Dislocation of Amber / Ughniyat touha al-hazina
The Dislocation of Amber (Intiza’ al Kahraman)
Ughniyat touha al-hazina (Sad Song of Touha)
Guests: Tamer El Said (Cimatheque - Alternative Film Center), Talal Afifi (Sudan Film Factory, Sudan Independent Film Festival; online), Eiman Hussein (Hussein Shariffe Foundation)
Arsenal
Tomorrow 14:30
Symposium Panel 2: Archival Resilience
Panelists: Hadi Alipanah (Curator and researcher), Olena Honcharuk, (Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre), Moderation: Vinzenz Hediger (Cinémathèque suisse)
Arsenal
Tomorrow 17:00
Found Futures 1: Living Archive Residents
Guests: Lilia Ben Achour (Living Archive Resident), Jere Ikongio (Living Archive Resident), Drika de Oliveira (Living Archive Resident)
Arsenal
Tomorrow 20:30
MYTH AND MERCURY and other films by Rosa Barba
Rosa Barba Italy, France, Germany 2025
35 mm Original version 22 min.
Guest: Rosa Barba, Moderation: Marc Siegel (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Arsenal
27.09. 09:00
Post-Memory, Post-Archive: Nigerian Film History (1960s–1980s) – Eleven Contemporary Perspectives
Arsenal-Foyer
27.09. 09:30
Symposium Panel 3: Book launch “Restitution and the Moving Image”
Panelists: Giovanna Fossati (Utrecht University), Lisabona Rahman (Independent archivist), Nikolaus Perneczky (Cambridge Digital Humanities), Cecilia Valenti (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)
Arsenal
27.09. 12:00
Scattered Bodies of Cinema
Introduction: Nikolaus Perneczky (Cambridge Digital Humanities), Cecilia Valenti (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)
Arsenal
27.09. 14:30
Symposium Panel 4: Fragmentation and the Decentralization of the Archive
Panelists: Amrita Biswas (Utrecht University), Achilleas Papakonstantis (Cinémathèque suisse), Moderation: Maral Mohsenin (Eye Filmmuseum)
Arsenal
27.09. 17:00
Found Futures 2: Ukrainian Animation / Egyptian, Belgian and Swiss Amateur Films / Letters from the Archive
Guests: Olena Honcharuk (Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre), Anastasiya Verlinska (LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival; online), Caroline Fournier (Cinématheque suisse), Tamer El Said (Cimatheque - Alternative Film Center)
Arsenal
27.09. 20:30
O Vento Sopra do Norte
José Cardoso Mozambique 1987
35 mm Original version with English subtitles 101 min.
Guests: Tiago Baptista (Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema), Introduction: Tomaz Zitha (Instituto Nacional de Indústrias Culturais e Criticas; online)
Arsenal
28.09. 09:00
Post-Memory, Post-Archive: Nigerian Film History (1960s–1980s) – Eleven Contemporary Perspectives
Arsenal-Foyer
28.09. 09:30
Symposium Panel 5: Technologies of Heritage
Panelists: Caroline Fournier (Cinémathèque suisse), Robert Ochshorn (Reduct.Video, KASK School of the Arts; online), Benoît Turquety (University Paris 8), Moderation: Sreya Chatterjee (HTW)
Arsenal
28.09. 12:00
Early Films by Ahmed Bouanani
Ahmed Bouanani Morocco 1966-1973
Digital file
Guest: Touda Bouanani (Living Archive Resident)
Arsenal
28.09. 14:30
Symposium Panel 6: Archival Affect
Panelists: Sukhpreet Kahlon (South Asian Film Festival of Montreal), Mosa Mpetha (Film curator), Moderation: Salma Siddique (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Arsenal
28.09. 17:00
Found Futures 3: ZAMANI / War on Memory – The Forgotten History of Nigeria's Post-war (1967-70) Cinema
Guests: Petna Ndaliko Katondolo (Living Archive Resident), Didi Cheeka (Living Archive Resident)
Arsenal
28.09. 20:30
Crimean Childhood around 2000
Anastasiia Bergalevich Germany/Russia 2026
DCP Original version with English subtitles 94
Guest: Anastasiia Bergalevich
Arsenal
29.09. 09:00
Post-Memory, Post-Archive: Nigerian Film History (1960s–1980s) – Eleven Contemporary Perspectives
Arsenal-Foyer
29.09. 09:30
Symposium Panel 7: The Rosenthals - Mainz - Lima - Mainz
Panelists: Julio César Gonzales Oviedo (Universidad de Los Andes [UNIANDES]), Carolina Cappa (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola), Daniel Meiller (Deutsche Kinemathek), Markus Ruff (Arsenal Filminstitut), Moderation: Marc Siegel and Alexandra Schneider (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)
Arsenal
29.09. 12:00
MADE IN USA and other films by Christine and Kurt Rosenthal
Christine and Kurt Rosenthal 1970-1975
Guests: Daniel Meiller (Deutsche Kinemathek), Carolina Cappa (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola), Julio César Gonzales Oviedo (Universidad de los Andes)
Arsenal
29.09. 14:30
Symposium Panel 8: Solidarity in/and the Archive
Panelists: Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto (Columbia University; online), Mohanad Yaqubi (Idioms Film, Ramallah and KASK School of the Arts; online), Moderation: Laliv Melamed (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Arsenal
29.09. 17:00
Found Futures 4: Kino und Kampf: Sneak preview of this year’s DOK Leipzig retrospective / Have a Seat with Me
Guests: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Arsenal Filminstitut), Ola Staszel (festival director DOK Leipzig), Florian Wüst (Independent curator), Wua-Ling Wu (Living Archive Resident)
Arsenal
29.09. 20:30
Mortu Nega
Flora Gomes Guinea-Bissau 1988
DCP Original version with English subtitles 96 min.
Guests: Cecilia Cenciarelli (Cineteca di Bologna), Aboubakar Sanogo (African Film Heritage Project)
Arsenal
30.09. 09:00
Post-Memory, Post-Archive: Nigerian Film History (1960s–1980s) – Eleven Contemporary Perspectives
Arsenal-Foyer
30.09. 09:30
Symposium Panel 9: Futurity and Archival Speculation
Panelists: Fabian Tietke (Film critic and film programmer), Hani Salwah Yaakup (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Moderation: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Arsenal Filminstitut)
Arsenal
30.09. 12:00
Nevinost bez zaštite
Dušan Makavejev Yugoslavia 1968
DCP Original version with English subtitles 78 min
Introduction: Petra Belc Krnjaić (University of Klagenfurt, VERN’ University Zagreb)
Arsenal
30.09. 14:30
Symposium Panel 10: Unarchiving Paranational Cinema
Panelists: Karina Griffith (Berlin University of the Arts), Petra Belc Krnjaić (University of Klagenfurt and VERN’ University in Zagreb), Brigitta Kuster (Humboldt University of Berlin), Volker Pantenburg (University of Zurich, SNF-Project Paranational Cinema - Legacies and Practices), Nikola Radić (University of Zurich), Philip Widmann (Paranational Cinema – Legacies and Practices, University of Zurich)
Arsenal
30.09. 17:00
Found Futures 5: An Excavation into Arsenal Filminstitut’s Programming History / Arsenal Index
Guests: Teresa Althen (FILE NOT FOUND), Samuel Bich (FILE NOT FOUND Resident), Bianca Bozzeda (Kultur Ensemble Palermo, Goethe-Institut Palermo), Clio Nicastro (HaFI), Beatrice Zerbato (HaFI Resident)
Arsenal
30.09. 20:30
Inside the Dwoskin Archive
Stephen Dwoskin UK 1970-1994
Guest: Henry K. Miller (Anglia Ruskin University)
Arsenal
01.10. 18:00
Germany-Nigeria Film Week
Welcome and conversation with Ali Nuhu (Nigerian Film Corporation)
Arsenal

Archival Assembly #4

Here and Now –  The Films of Christoph Hochhäusler

Opening of the new Arsenal Cinema

Post-Memory, Post-Archive: Nigerian Film History (1960s–1980s) – Eleven Contemporary Perspectives

Symposium Panel 1: The UNREST Project: Restitution Dreaming as a Decolonial Practice

The Dislocation of Amber / Ughniyat touha al-hazina

Symposium Panel 2: Archival Resilience

Found Futures 1: Living Archive Residents

MYTH AND MERCURY and other films by Rosa Barba

Post-Memory, Post-Archive: Nigerian Film History (1960s–1980s) – Eleven Contemporary Perspectives

Symposium Panel 3: Book launch “Restitution and the Moving Image”

Scattered Bodies of Cinema

Symposium Panel 4: Fragmentation and the Decentralization of the Archive

Found Futures 2: Ukrainian Animation / Egyptian, Belgian and Swiss Amateur Films / Letters from the Archive

O Vento Sopra do Norte

Post-Memory, Post-Archive: Nigerian Film History (1960s–1980s) – Eleven Contemporary Perspectives

Symposium Panel 5: Technologies of Heritage

Early Films by Ahmed Bouanani

Symposium Panel 6: Archival Affect

Found Futures 3: ZAMANI / War on Memory – The Forgotten History of Nigeria's Post-war (1967-70) Cinema

Crimean Childhood around 2000

Post-Memory, Post-Archive: Nigerian Film History (1960s–1980s) – Eleven Contemporary Perspectives

Symposium Panel 7: The Rosenthals - Mainz - Lima - Mainz

MADE IN USA and other films by Christine and Kurt Rosenthal

Symposium Panel 8: Solidarity in/and the Archive

Found Futures 4: Kino und Kampf: Sneak preview of this year’s DOK Leipzig retrospective / Have a Seat with Me

Mortu Nega

Post-Memory, Post-Archive: Nigerian Film History (1960s–1980s) – Eleven Contemporary Perspectives

Symposium Panel 9: Futurity and Archival Speculation

Nevinost bez zaštite

Symposium Panel 10: Unarchiving Paranational Cinema

Found Futures 5: An Excavation into Arsenal Filminstitut’s Programming History / Arsenal Index

Inside the Dwoskin Archive

Germany-Nigeria Film Week

Arsenal 60ff. Film talks from five decade Berlinale Forum

Video documentation Symposium Archival Assembly #3

Arsenal on Location 2025