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BERLINALE 2020

The Berlinale announces Forum and Forum Expanded line-ups

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- For the 50th anniversary of the gathering's most daring section, new head Cristina Nord and her team have selected 35 films and another 39 installations and films for the Expanded segment

The Berlinale announces Forum and Forum Expanded line-ups
The House of Love by Luca Ferri

The Berlinale Forum, which started 50 years ago as an independent section of Europe's largest film festival, has announced its 2020 selection under the leadership of new head Cristina Nord.

Forum will open with the Chilean production THE TANGO OF THE WIDOWER and Its Distorting Mirror by Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento, which the programmers say is perfectly representative of the line-up, in which many of the 35 films – 28 of which are world premieres – are characterised by how they look for ways to mediate between the past and the present.

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Out of the 35 titles (for the full list, scroll down), 20 are European (co-) productions, and Berlinale regular and the winner of two Silver Bears for Aferim! [+see also:
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, Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, has two in the selection: Uppercase Print [+see also:
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and The Exit of the Trains [+see also:
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, the latter co-directed with Adrian Cioflâncă. Other notable European entries include Irene Gutiérrez's Entre perro y lobo [+see also:
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(Cuba/Spain), Viera Čákanyová's FREM [+see also:
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(Czech Republic/Slovakia), Sabine Herpich's Art Comes from the Beak the Way It Has Grown [+see also:
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(Germany), Luca Ferri's The House of Love [+see also:
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(Italy), Lois Patiño's Red Moon Tide [+see also:
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(Spain), Clarissa Thieme's Was bleibt / Šta ostaje / What Remains / Re-visited (Germany/Austria/Bosnia and Herzegovina), Carmen Losmann's Oeconomia [+see also:
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(Germany), the Belgian production Victoria [+see also:
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by Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer and Isabelle Tollenaere, the Italian title Zeus Machine. The Invincible [+see also:
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by Nadia Ranocchi and David Zamagni, and the UK-French co-production Ouvertures [+see also:
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 by Louis Henderson and Olivier Marboeuf together with The Living and the Dead Ensemble. For more information, please click here.

As for the Forum Expanded multimedia section, which combines feature-length and short films with exhibitions and installations, there are 39 titles dedicated to themes such as migration, racism, sexism, state violence, capitalism, colonialism, extractivism, the climate crisis, fears for the future, the loss of history and more, according to the curators, who are led by section head Stefanie Schulte Strathaus. Fifteen of the entries are European (co-) productions, including Jonna Kina's Akiya (Finland/Japan/USA), Ana Vaz's Apiyemiyekî? (Brazil/France/ Netherlands/Portugal), Anton Vidokle's Citizens of the Cosmos (USA/Japan/Ukraine), Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy's Her Name Was Europa (Germany), Laura Huertas Millán's Jiíbie (Colombia/France), Petna Ndaliko Katondolo's Matata (Democratic Republic of the Congo/USA/Netherlands), Graeme Arnfield's The Phantom Menace (UK), Amel Alzakout and Khaled Abdulwahed's Purple Sea (Germany), Vika Kirchenbauer's Untitled Sequence of Gaps (Germany), and the Belgian-German-DRC co-production Télé Réalité by Lucile Desamory, Gustave Fundi and Glodie Mubikay. For more details and the full list of titles, please click here.

Here is the full list of titles:

Berlinale Forum

THE TANGO OF THE WIDOWER and Its Distorting Mirror - Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento (Chile) (opening film)
Anne at 13,000 ft
- Kazik Radwanski (Canada/USA)
A Storm Was Coming [+see also:
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interview: Javier Fernández Vázquez
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- Javier Fernández Vázquez (Spain)
Window Boy Would Also Like to Have A Submarine [+see also:
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- Alex Piperno (Uruguay/Argentina/Brazil/Netherlands/Philippines)
Entre perro y lobo [+see also:
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interview: Irene Gutiérrez
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- Irene Gutiérrez (Cuba/Spain)
This Is My Desire - Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri (Nigeria/USA)
FREM [+see also:
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interview: Viera Čakányová
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- Viera Čákanyová (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
Generations - Lynne Siefert (USA)
The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror that Travels Through Time [+see also:
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interview: Constanze Ruhm
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- Constanze Ruhm (Austria/ Germany/France)
In Deep Sleep - Maria Ignatenko (Russia)
Strike or Die [+see also:
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- Jonathan Rescigno (France)
The Exit of the Trains [+see also:
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interview: Adrian Cioflâncă
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- Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncă (Romania)
As Above So Below - Sarah Francis (Lebanon)
Art Comes from the Beak the Way It Has Grown [+see also:
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- Sabine Herpich (Germany)
The House of Love [+see also:
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- Luca Ferri (Italy)
Red Moon Tide [+see also:
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interview: Lois Patiño
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- Lois Patiño (Spain)
Light in the Tropics - Paula Gaitán (Brazil)
Maggie’s Farm - James Benning (USA)
Medium - Edgardo Cozarinsky (Argentina)
The Alien - Nader Saeivar (Iran)
Oeconomia [+see also:
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interview: Carmen Losmann
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- Carmen Losmann (Germany)
Ouvertures [+see also:
trailer
interview: Louis Henderson
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 - Louis Henderson and Olivier Marboeuf together with The Living and the Dead Ensemble (UK/France)
Petit Samedi [+see also:
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interview: Paloma Sermon Daï
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- Paola Sermon-Daï (Belgium)
The Calming - Song Fang (China)
Corporate Accountability - Jonathan Perel (Argentina)
Zero - Kazuhiro Soda (Japan/USA)
Uppercase Print [+see also:
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- Radu Jude (Romania)
After the Crossing [+see also:
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- Joël Richmond Mathieu Akafou (France/Burkina Faso/Belgium)
The Twentieth Century - Matthew Rankin (Canada)
The Two Sights [+see also:
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 - Joshua Bonnetta (Canada/UK)
Victoria [+see also:
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- Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere (Belgium)
The Viewing Booth - Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (Israel/USA)
Divinely Evil - Gustavo Vinagre (Brazil)
Was bleibt I Šta ostaje I What remains I Re-visited - Clarissa Thieme (Germany/Austria/ Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Zeus Machine. The Invincible [+see also:
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trailer
interview: David Zamagni and Nadia Ran…
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]
- Nadia Ranocchi, David Zamagni (Italy)

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