Berlinale Spotlight: Forum Expanded
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The Berlinale programme for experimental cinema, Forum Expanded presents five shorts that investigate, probe and queer the textures, legacies and continuities of natural and political histories. – Ulrich Ziemons.
Presented in association with Goethe Institut.
Warnings to the Distant Future 2025
Warnungen an die ferne Zukunft
“How should those who come after us be warned of danger”? A film about the search for the German-German nuclear waste repository – between warning signs, feedback loops, flowing flocks of birds and the area between sign and object.
In Sum 2026
Phi Pattana
Corroded pixels struggle to form an image as they move through Cold War promises of development in rural Thailand, haunted by archival voices.
Pink Schlemmer 2025
In 2024, a deteriorated 16mm print of a film about Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus dances resurfaced, now awash in vibrant pink from chemical aging. Oliver Husain and collaborators use this flamboyant tint to reimagine the 1925 choreographies.
Filme Pin 2026
Between light, metal and silver, Filme Pin turns a collection of solidarity pins into an archive at another scale: spectres of exile and international struggle against Portugal’s fascist and colonial regime.
Forever…Forever 2026
The uninterrupted light trail of 1 year and 10 months, condensed down to 20 minutes, filmed on a self-made camera. Daily rhythms accelerate, slowly at first, then more intensely. A structuralist film about transience.