TEHRAN – The Film Museum of Iran will be hosting the Forum and Forum Expanded, a Berlin Film Festival program that will screen a lineup of short films on Saturday.

The Forum and Forum Expanded is a program independently organized by the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art as part of the Berlin Film Festival – Berlinale.

A selection of six Iranian and foreign short films already screened at the Berlinale will go on screen during the program. 

The short films are “Bruce Lee in the Land of Balzac” by Maria Thereza Alves from France, “Falgoosh, Blames & Flames” by Mohammadreza Farzad from Iran, “Have You Ever Killed a Bear or Becoming Jamila” by Marwa Arsanios from Lebanon and “On Construction of Griffith’s Films” by Harun Farocki from Germany.

Also included are “Today Is 11th June 1993”, a co-production between of Germany and Bosnia directed by Clarissa Thieme and “Xenogenesis” by Morishita Akihiko from Japan.

Forum and Forum Expanded director Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is expected to talk about the program and the Arsenal Institute before the screening session, which will be organized in collaboration with Iran’s Art and Experience Cinema and the Embassy of Germany.

The Forum and Forum Expanded aims to expand the understanding of what film is, to test the boundaries of convention and open up fresh perspectives to help grasp cinema and how it relates to the world in new ways. 

Photo: “Today Is 11th June 1993”, a co-production between Germany and Bosnia directed by Clarissa Thieme, will be screened in the Forum and Forum Expanded in Tehran.

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