The selection of the Berlinale’s Forum (10-20 February) is now complete, with its main programme comprising 27 titles. Alongside these films, the audience will also be invited to discover Forum Special, further exploring the “Fiktionsbescheinigung” series devoted to the question of how culture and cinema are related to society and racism.

Apart from We Haven’t Lost Our Way [+lire aussi :
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While Alain Gomis – who previously showed Félicité [+lire aussi :
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“The selection process for the 52nd Berlinale Forum made one thing very clear: however much the pandemic may have paralysed life in our societies, filmmakers worldwide have lost none of their inventiveness or artistic desire,” it was stated.

The complete list of titles of the main section (including the previously announced ones - see the news) is as follows:

A Flower in the Mouth [+lire aussi :
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Afterwater [+lire aussi :
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Camouflage - Jonathan Perel (Argentina)
Dry Ground Burning [+lire aussi :
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Europe [+lire aussi :
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For the Many – The Vienna Chamber of Labour [+lire aussi :
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Geographies of Solitude - Jacquelyn Mills (Canada)
Happer’s Comet - Tyler Taormina (USA)
Hot in Day, Cold at Night - Park Song-yeol (South Korea)
Jet Lag [+lire aussi :
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L'état et moi [+lire aussi :
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Memoryland [+lire aussi :
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My Two Voices - Lina Rodriguez (Canada)
Nuclear Family - Erin Wilkerson, Travis Wilkerson (USA/Singapore)
Poet - Darezhan Omirbayev (Kazakhstan)
Rewind and Play [+lire aussi :
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Scala - Ananta Thitanat (Thailand)
Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day? [+lire aussi :
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Striking Land [+lire aussi :
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Super Natural [+lire aussi :
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Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter - Gustavo Vinagre (Brazil)
The Kegelstatt Trio [+lire aussi :
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The Middle Ages - Alejo Moguillansky, Luciana Acuña (Argentina)
The United States of America - James Benning (USA)
The Veteran - Jeronimo Rodriguez (Chile)
This House - Miryam Charleswith, Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Florence Blain Mbaye, Eve Duranceau (Canada)
We Haven’t Lost Our Way [+lire aussi :
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