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 [+leggi anche:
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While Alain Gomis – who previously showed Félicité [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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Afterwater [+leggi anche:
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Camouflage - Jonathan Perel (Argentina)
Dry Ground Burning [+leggi anche:
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Europe [+leggi anche:
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For the Many – The Vienna Chamber of Labour [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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L'état et moi [+leggi anche:
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Memoryland [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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Scala - Ananta Thitanat (Thailand)
Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day? [+leggi anche:
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Striking Land [+leggi anche:
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Super Natural [+leggi anche:
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Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter - Gustavo Vinagre (Brazil)
The Kegelstatt Trio [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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