Berlinale - Forum

A poignant tale of lost innocence, young Dib navigates the tumultuous landscape of 1950s Damascus following his father's death.

PARABETON shows in chronological sequence 17 buildings by the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) in Italy and France.

A hospital in Berlin-Neukölln at midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the scene. The beginning of a story that tells itself.

Can a documentary depict reality? Should it even try? Constanze Ruhm examines how reality and the construction of reality are different.

A political and sociological look at the transformation and gentrification of Berlin through teenage eyes.

On 3 summer afternoons, a family meets up a beautiful house in an upscale Berlin neighborhood. They come together but ultimately drift further apart.

A personal travelogue by Berlin-based director Thomas Arslan about a journey through Turkey.

Deniz, 21 works as a dubbing artist and has just ended her relationship with Jan. In one short day, she goes through a separation and a new beginning.

This documentary tells the incredibly shocking story of how a Nazi officer became a top politician and UN Secretary General.

The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.

A single decision can change the rest of your life - a film about what could have been.

An unconventional portrait of a man whose life motto reminds us of the poets of romanticism: The genius writes its own rules.

A banker smuggling black money catapults himself out of his old life with a dip in the cold lake water.

A portrait of a ‘German socialist art’ in the GDR up to the building of the wall in 1961.

At the beginning of the last century, Arno Breker was one of the great hopes of young German sculpture, esteemed by the painter Max Liebermann.

A trenchant image of the complications self-discovery and personality formation can be for adolescents.

The film is about love and hate, about right and wrong words. At its centre are Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, who met in post-war Vienna.

The testimonies of former Wehrmacht soldiers collected by Ruth Beckermann are still horrifying today.

Berlin-based independent filmmaker Eva Heldmann interviews five people who cannot pay their electricity bills.

This documentary tells the harrowing story of the global phenomenon of human trafficking.

Angelika Levi explores her German Christian-Jewish family heritage through the archives of photographs, audio tapes and films collected by her mother.

Karin Jurschick examins the reasons for her late mother's suicide.

In a temporal twist, this movie tells the story of an intervention into the future perception of a territory’s political history.

In elegant CinemaScope images, this film tells the story of the housekeeper Nadja in times of economic crisis as a tender melodrama.

Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Swiss mountains, 3 extraordinary vocal artists develop traditional yodelling into their own musical language.

A place and its inhabitants have to give way to the open-cast mine.

Beckermann's subjects offer a dramatic range of candid opinions about Arab-Jewish relations, immigration, the intifada, religion, and the economy.

A short film by Berlin-based film icon Michael Brynntrup full of photographs collected from personal profiles in gay chat rooms on the internet.