Today, the Berlinale (16-26 February) announced the full line-ups for its Forum and Forum Expanded strands. In detail, this year’s Forum section will see “powerful documentaries stand alongside highly personal essay films”, and according to the official press release, the 28 titles look set to “celebrate the diversity of cinematic forms, approaches and narratives, and explore the predicaments of the past and present in unflinching fashion”.

Among the Forum’s European highlights is, without a doubt, Claire Simon’s new documentary Our Body [+lire aussi :
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Meanwhile, the 34 films and installations from 20 countries which make up this year’s Forum Expanded line-up revolve around “political and personal legacies which often lie in shambles”, and see their makers “keen on artistic experimentation, [...] propelling them forward on ever-changing and surprising trajectories”. The seven European (co-)productions included in this strand are Ana Vaz’s The Tree (Spain/Brazil), Manthia Diawara’s AI: African Intelligence (Portugal/Senegal/Belgium), Dan Guthrie’s Black Strangers (UK), Heiko-Thandeka Ncube’s The early rain which washes away the chaff before spring rains (Germany), Graeme Arnfield’s Home Invasion (UK), Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory’s Prototype (Canada/Denmark) and Cana Bilir-Meier’s In-between Worlds (Germany).

Here is the complete list of titles (including the previously announced ones – see the news):

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Allensworth – James Benning (USA)
Anqa [+lire aussi :
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About Thirty – Martin Shanly (Argentina)
Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait [+lire aussi :
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The Bride – Myriam U Birara (Rwanda)
Cidade Rabat [+lire aussi :
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De Facto [+lire aussi :
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The Intrusion [+lire aussi :
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The Temple Woods Gang [+lire aussi :
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Leaving and Staying [+lire aussi :
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Between Revolutions [+lire aussi :
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There Is a Stone – Tatsunari Ota (Japan)
Where God Is Not [+lire aussi :
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Our Body [+lire aussi :
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A Golden Life [+lire aussi :
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The Face of the Jellyfish – Melisa Liebenthal (Argentina)
Remembering Every Night – Yui Kiyohara (Japan)
Forms of Forgetting – Burak Çevik (Turkey)
Regardless of Us – Yoo Heong-jun (South Korea)
In Ukraine [+lire aussi :
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Concrete Valley – Antoine Bourges (Canada)
Dearest Fiona [+lire aussi :
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Horse Opera – Moyra Davey (USA)
The Trial [+lire aussi :
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Calls from Moscow [+lire aussi :
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Mammalia [+lire aussi :
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Notes from Eremocene [+lire aussi :
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interview : Viera Čákanyová
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This Is the End [+lire aussi :
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