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.

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! [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Radu Jude
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intervista: Adrian Cioflâncă
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intervista: Irene Gutiérrez
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intervista: Viera Čakányová
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intervista: Lois Patiño
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intervista: Carmen Losmann
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intervista: Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabe…
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intervista: David Zamagni e Nadia Rano…
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intervista: Louis Henderson
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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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Javier Fernández Vázquez
scheda film] - Javier Fernández Vázquez (Spain)
Window Boy Would Also Like to Have A Submarine [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Alex Piperno (Uruguay/Argentina/Brazil/Netherlands/Philippines)
Entre perro y lobo [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Irene Gutiérrez
scheda film] - Irene Gutiérrez (Cuba/Spain)
This Is My Desire - Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri (Nigeria/USA)
FREM [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Viera Čakányová
scheda film] - Viera Čákanyová (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
Generations - Lynne Siefert (USA)
The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror that Travels Through Time [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Constanze Ruhm
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In Deep Sleep - Maria Ignatenko (Russia)
Strike or Die [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Jonathan Rescigno (France)
The Exit of the Trains [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Adrian Cioflâncă
scheda film] - Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncă (Romania)
As Above So Below - Sarah Francis (Lebanon)
Art Comes from the Beak the Way It Has Grown [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Sabine Herpich (Germany)
The House of Love [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Luca Ferri (Italy)
Red Moon Tide [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lois Patiño
scheda film] - 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Carmen Losmann
scheda film] - Carmen Losmann (Germany)
Ouvertures [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Louis Henderson
scheda film] - Louis Henderson and Olivier Marboeuf together with The Living and the Dead Ensemble (UK/France)
Petit Samedi [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Paloma Sermon Daï
scheda film] - Paola Sermon-Daï (Belgium)
The Calming - Song Fang (China)
Corporate Accountability - Jonathan Perel (Argentina)
Zero - Kazuhiro Soda (Japan/USA)
Uppercase Print [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Radu Jude (Romania)
After the Crossing [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Joël Richmond Mathieu Akafou (France/Burkina Faso/Belgium)
The Twentieth Century - Matthew Rankin (Canada)
The Two Sights [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Joshua Bonnetta (Canada/UK)
Victoria [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabe…
scheda film] - 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: David Zamagni e Nadia Rano…
scheda film] - Nadia Ranocchi, David Zamagni (Italy)