Forum will be celebrating its 49th edition during the 69th Berlin International Film Festival (7-17 February 2019), curated – after Christoph Terhechte stepped down this summer, following 17 successful editions – by an interim directorate consisting of the members of the board of directors of Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, which originally instigated this programme and has been organising it ever since. Said members are Milena Gregor, Birgit Kohler and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus.

(L'article continue plus bas - Inf. publicitaire)

The ambition that the independent section has always possessed – that is, to reflect on the medium of film, and expand the understanding of what it is and how it relates to the world, pushing "the boundaries of convention" in terms of form as well as message – is reaffirmed in this year's programme, the concept of which is not to present a "best of" list, but rather to gather together a selection of films "that try things out, take a stance and refuse to compromise", including by exploring other art forms besides film.

The main programme consists of 39 movies, 31 of which will screen as world premieres. Sixteen of these titles are European, and nine more are European co-productions. The whole selection includes many literary adaptations or works teeming with references to literature, such as a Super 8 silent-film version of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel The Children of the Dead, an opulent rendition of Robert Musil's novella The Portuguese Woman [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Rita Azevedo Gomes
fiche film] and an essayistic collage called An Open Rose, based on Rosa Luxemburg’s letters from prison, to mention but a few. As is customary, the documentary form is being granted a special place in the Forum section, represented, for instance, by two well-known European names in the field: Nikolaus Geyrhalter with Earth [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Nikolaus Geyrhalter
fiche film] and Jean-Gabriel Périot with Our Defeats [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film], in which scenes from May 1968, showing strikes and labour disputes, are restaged and discussed with high-school students.

This year’s Special Screenings, entitled “Archival Constellations”, have yet to be announced.  

Here is the list of all the films selected as part of the main programme of Forum 2019:

African Mirror [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Mischa Hedinger (Switzerland)
Belonging [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Burak Çevik
fiche film] - Burak Çevik (Turkey/Canada/France)
The Portuguese Woman [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Rita Azevedo Gomes
fiche film] - Rita Azevedo Gomes (Portugal)
The Blue Flower of Novalis - Gustavo Vinagre, Rodrigo Carneiro (Brazil)
Bait [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Mark Jenkin
fiche film] - Mark Jenkin (UK)
Breathless Animals - Lei Lei (USA)
Landless - Camila Freitas (Brazil)
From Tomorrow on, I Will [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Ivan Marković, Wu Linfeng (Germany/China/Serbia)
Delphine and Carole [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Callisto Mc Nulty
fiche film] - Callisto Mc Nulty (France/Switzerland)
Demons - Daniel Hui (Singapore)
The Children of the Dead [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Kelly Copper et Pavol Liška
fiche film] - Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska (Austria)
Hormigas [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Antonella Sudasassi Furniss (Costa Rica/Spain)
Earth [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Nikolaus Geyrhalter
fiche film] - Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Austria)
Far from Us - Verena Kuri, Laura Bierbrauer (Argentina)
Progress in the Valley of the People Who Don’t Know [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Florian Kunert (Germany)
Fourteen - Dan Sallitt (USA)
Fukuoka - Zhang Lu (Republic of Korea)
The Last to See Them [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Sara Summa (Germany)
Heimat Is a Space in Time [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Thomas Heise (Germany/Austria)
The Stone Speakers [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Igor Drljača (Canada/Bosnia and Herzegovina)
And Your Bird Can Sing - Sho Miyake (Japan)
Lapü - César Alejandro Jaimes, Juan Pablo Polanco (Colombia)
A Russian Youth [+lire aussi :
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Alexander Zolotukhin (Russia)
Vanishing Days - Zhu Xin (China)
Monsters. [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Marius Olteanu
fiche film] - Marius Olteanu (Romania)
Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You - Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (Lesotho)
MS Slavic 7 - Sofia Bohdanowicz, Deragh Campbell (Canada)
Leakage [+lire aussi :
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Suzan Iravanian (Iran/Czech Republic)
Just Don't Think I'll Scream [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Frank Beauvais (France)
Our Defeats [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Jean-Gabriel Périot (France)
Olanda [+lire aussi :
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Bernd Schoch (Germany)
Khartoum Offside [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Marwa Zein (Sudan/Norway/Denmark)
Homing [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Helvécio Marins Jr (Brazil/Germany)
Retrospekt [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Esther Rots (Netherlands/Belgium)
Serpentarius [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Carlos Conceição (Angola/Portugal)
So Pretty [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli (USA/France)
The Plagiarists - Peter Parlow (USA)
Warda, An Open Rose - Ghassan Salhab (Lebanon)
Music and Apocalypse [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Max Linz (Germany)
What We Left Unfinished - Mariam Ghani (US/Afghanistan/Qatar)
Years of Construction [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
fiche film] - Heinz Emigholz (Germany)