Berlinale 2025: Forum, Forum Expanded und Berlinale Shorts
Film screenings and installations as part of the 75th Berlinale
This year, silent green is once again hosting the Berlinale. As part of the 27th edition, our concrete hall is transformed into a temporary cinema, showcasing films from the Forum, Forum Expanded, and Berlinale Shorts sections. In addition, moderated film discussions foster dialogue between film and society, art and reality, inviting lively exchanges. Furthermore, Forum Expanded presents six cinematic installation works in the Betonhalle and Kuppelhalle, as well as a seventh work on our premises.
Here is the link to the Berlinale-programme.
Forum
The 55th Forum main programme comprises 30 films from five continents – including seven feature debuts – and encounters a world and its people that are in a bad state. “Sounding out a diverse range of cinematic forms, the Forum shows contemporary cinema that moves beyond the cult and the commercial – giving off sparks of humanity, interrogating the status quo and functioning as a seismograph of our time,” says section head Barbara Wurm.
Reflecting on today by looking at the past marks a key quality of the documentary forms showing at the Forum, which make up around half of the entire program and stand in close relation to the selection of the 2025 Forum Special “Open Wounds, Open Words”.
More information on the programme of the Forum on the arsenal website.
More about the Forum Special here.
Forum Expanded
In its 20th edition, Forum Expanded brings together 24 works from 21 countries. Employing practices that span installation, film, video and sculpture, the selected artists and filmmakers employ translucence as a means of engaging with the cataclysmic realities of the present. Whether dealing with personal or collective histories, ongoing wars, extractivism, legacies of colonialism or social inequalities, their approaches frequently hinge on intervention rather than observation. Be it through tinted glass, virtual reality, historical speculation or sonic augmentation: their works actively project ideas, images and sounds that alter how we perceive reality and refract our view of the world. They make what is missing even more tangible by redirecting our gaze and throw what lies beyond or outside of our perception into ever sharper relief as a result.
More information on the programme of the Forum Expanded on the arsenal website.
Installations & dome projection
In addition to numerous films, 7 installations will be on display at silent green. At silent green’s Kuppelhalle, a special presentation of Lisa Jackson’s 360-degree dome projection film Wilfred Buck’s Star Stories provides an immersive view of Indigenous astronomy. While on the lawn outside of the venue, the visitor’s own smartphones provide the lenses through which they can experience the augmented reality installation Alternatives Denkmal für Deutschland (ADfD) (Alternative Monument for Germany), a community-based virtual monument to migration in Germany.
Sinking Suns (Neda Saeedi)
RAPTURE (Alisa Berger)
J-N-N (Ginan Seidl)
Wilfred Buck’s Star Stories (Lisa Jackson and The Macronauts)
Alternative Monument for Germany (ADfD)
Admission free
Berlinale Shorts
20 films from a total of 18 production countries are celebrating their premieres at the 2025 Berlinale Shorts, of which 15 are world premieres. The programme combines classic storytelling with surreal works, features various styles of animation and presents experimental documentary forms.
More informationen about the Berlinale Shorts.
75. Berlinale: Forum, Forum Expanded & Berlinale Shorts
Thursday,13.– Sunday, 23. February
Betonhalle, Kuppelhalle
Tickets via Berlinale-Website