Berlin Film Festival Unveils Berlinale Forum and Berlinale Forum Expanded Lineup

Berlin Film Festival revealed the titles featured in the Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded at the 2026 festival, addressing social, cultural, ecological, and political issues present and future.

“Finding an entry point to the world through cinema — and returning to film grain, pixel, photo, camera view, soundtrack and archive image as well as increasingly turning to virtual and AI-generated images”, section head Barbara Wurm remarks, “is something that independent filmmakers are dealing with as well as those more established in the system, whether in auteur and genre cinema or fiction and documentary. The exciting thing about this year’s edition — probably the most political in a long time — is the diverse range of different cinematic forms used to set out concrete themes that hurt, such as enduring colonialism and the structural repression of Indigenous populations, violence against women, systems of corruption, social injustices. These are contrasted by self-explorations, and, like last year already, conscious elective affinities.”

Forum Expanded is once again presenting two expanded cinema performances that transform the cinema space into a broader stage for image and sound with a multitude of analogue film and slide projections.

In memory of Ken and Flo Jacobs, the American avant-garde film pioneers who passed away in 2025, their short film Let There Be Whistleblowers (Forum Expanded 2007) will be screened once again.

Berlinale Forum

AnyMart
by Yusuke Iwasaki | with Shota Sometani, Erika Karata, Masahiko Nishimura
Japan 2026
Forum | World premiere | Debut film
A supermarket as both a microcosm of Japanese society and the setting for a socially critical horror film. Expressionless faces and a supervisor who demands zombie-like friendliness. Only the young Sakai does not stop hoping. What a debut!

Auslandsreise (Foreign Travel)
by Ted Fendt | with Leonie Rodrian, Florian Model, Alejo Franzetti, Hanna Döring, Sigrid Vagt
Germany 2026
Forum | World premiere
A year in Berlin: Leonie wanders through the city and the texts of Anna Maria Ortese. Speaking with friends and translator Sigrid Vagt, she is also looking for the narrative threads of her own life. A film about reading, shot in glowing, matter-of-fact 16mm.

Black Lions – Roman Wolves
by Haile Gerima
Ethiopia / USA 2026
Forum | World premiere | Documentary form
Decades in the making, Haile Gerima’s sweeping survey of Italy’s brutal colonial legacy in Ethiopia is a monumental reckoning with suppressed history. With a balladeer’s spirit, Gerima forges an epic saga of resistance, freedom, and national pride.

Cesarean Weekend
by Mohammad Shirvani | with Nader Mashayekhi, Peyman Yeganeh, Milad Ahmadzadeh, Armin Shirvani, Bita Jamshidi
Iran 2026
Forum | World premiere
In a villa in the north of Iran, the dividing lines between different generations of a family and those separating celebration from discord are sounded out, as is the meaning of love. An intense, wild, and philosophical depiction of contemporary Iran.

Chronos – Fluss der Zeit (Chronos – Flow of Time)
by Volker Koepp | with Tanja Kloubert, Anetta Kahane, Volha Hapeyeva, Ana Scutelnicu
Germany 2026
Forum | World premiere | Documentary form
Tracing biographical lines, Volker Koepp steps into his oeuvre, rich in encounters. Returning to Lithuania, Moldova and Czernowitz, he looks back and brings things up to date, as the war against Ukraine becomes a determining element of the present. Epic.

Crocodile
by The Critics, Pietra Brettkelly | with Raymond J. Yusuff, Godwin Josiah, Ronald Yusuff, Victor Josiah, Richard Yusuff
New Zealand / Nigeria 2026
Forum | World premiere | Documentary form
In Nigeria, the young art collective The Critics, armed with makeshift gear, conjures homemade sci-fi spectacles, chronicling their reality while blasting into wild imagined worlds. A vibrant documentary and a gleeful ode to the power of (self) invention.

De capul nostru (On Our Own)
by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu | with Denisa Vraja, Vlad Furtună
Romania / Italy 2026
Forum | World premiere
Flavia’s mother a carer in Italy; her father on a building site. Luca and Tina supposed to be looked after by their fragile grandmother. A wonderful coming-of-age film about growing up among those of the same age when the adults have left the stage.

Doggerland
by Kim Ekberg | with Anita Holm, John Holm, Astrid Drettner, Roger Carlsson, Lotta Bäck-Vogel
Sweden 2026
Forum | World premiere
Instead of finding a “proper” job, Alf, pushing 40, lives with his mum and drifts though Norrköping’s cultural scene. Chats and faces, routines and intuitions, local politics and everyday life – the intimate and the social, in black-and-white analogue images.

Effondrement (Collapse)
by Anat Even
France 2026
Forum | World premiere | Documentary form
In mourning, Anat Even began travelling with a camera along the Gaza Strip after October 7 – again and again. Striving to show the reality of this painful border. Trying not to look away. An essay about questions of causality and responsibility.

EIGHT BRIDGES
by James Benning
USA 2026
Forum | World premiere
“It seems to be the time to consider bridges.” – James Benning

Einar Schleef – Ich habe kein Deutschland gefunden (Einar Schleef – No Germany Did I Find)
by Sandra Prechtel | with Einar Schleef
Germany 2026
Forum | World premiere | Documentary form
With his monumental productions, Einar Schleef pushed theatre to the outer reaches, confounded expectations in East and West alike, grappled with GDR origins and the BRD present. A universal artist emerges from the archive: “I’m not human, I’m dynamite”.

Everything Else Is Noise
by Nicolás Pereda | with Teresita Sánchez, Rosa Estela Juárez Vargas, Luisa Pardo, Lázaro G. Rodríguez, Francisco Barreiro
Mexico / Germany / Canada 2026
Forum | World premiere
In Mexico, Tere, a musician-composer, opens her home to a TV interview with a friend, as topics meander and new voices drift in. An absurdist comical chamber piece that skewers art-world hypocrisy, mocks pretension, and celebrates a singular womanly bond.

Flying Tigers
by Madhusree Dutta | with Madhusree Dutta, Mi You, Purav Goswami
Germany / India 2026
Forum | World premiere | Documentary form
An Alzheimer’s-plagued mother’s fear of tigers in Assam sparks a multi-location probe into the US army unit supplying Kunming in WWII. A collective quest through history’s butterfly effects, told via found stories and turned hybrid. Forest up in the Mountain by Sofia Bordenave | with Mirta Ñancuano, Lorena Cañuqueo, Joaquin Rapoport

Argentina 2026
Forum | World premiere | Documentary form
In 2017, young Mapuche Rafael Nahuel was killed by police in the Patagonian forest. Site visits, court proceedings – the film unites the elements involved in solving the crime. Meticulously observed: the struggle for civil rights and narrating history.

Ghost in the Cell
by Joko Anwar | with Abimana Aryasatya, Endy Arfian, Bront Palarae, Morgan Oey, Lukman Sardi
Indonesia 2026
Forum | World premiere
Joko Anwar’s supernatural horror-comedy set in a prison: inmates must unite against a murderous ghost who turns corpses into art installations. Staying calm is near-impossible – and riotously funny, laced with sharp jabs at power, corruption, and violence.

Hear the Yellow
by Banu Sıvacı | with Selva Erdener, Suleyman Kadim Kabaali, Asena Hotamış, Kerem Ozdogan, Okan Selvi
Turkey 2026
Forum | World premiere
Due to family matters, Suna returns to the Turkish village where she is from. Riven with cracks caused by drought, her parental home is as fragile as the relationships between the local people. Undeterred, Suna shines a light into the past’s dark corners.

I Built a Rocket Imagining Your Arrival
by Janaína Marques | with Verônica Cavalcanti, Luciana Souza, Fabíola Líper, Christiane de Lavor, Ridson Reis
Brazil 2026
Forum | World premiere | Debut film
Fifty-something Rosa, lying in an MRI scanner, is prompted to summon a happy memory. She plunges into a meandering, subconscious road trip with her bubbly mother, where wild imagination becomes a tender, unruly form of therapy.

If Pigeons Turned to Gold
by Pepa Lubojacki | with David Richter, Pepa Lubojacki, David Lubojacki, Marco Arnone
Czechia / Slovakia 2026
Forum | World premiere | Debut film | Documentary form
Alcohol addiction is a constant in Pepa Lubojacki’s family. In an attempt to find a sisterly-brotherly way of dealing with it, text, longterm observation, beats and AI-animated photos are combined into an unflinching, yet loving form of disclosure.

Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman
by Mawena Yehouessi, Fallon Mayanja, Rob Jacobs, Victoire Karera Kampire, Paul Shemisi, Anne Reijniers
Belgium 2026
Forum | World premiere
African American composer Julius Eastman’s music and voice take turns. Sparked by colonial and life history. Raw, radical, crystal clear. A multipart, flashy, transnational-collective performance by six artists. An homage.

Liebhaberinnen (Women as Lovers)
by Koxi | with Johanna Wokalek, Hannah Schiller, Ben Münchow, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Jasmin Artosha Mokhtare
Germany / Luxembourg 2026
Forum | World premiere | Debut film
An invisible bond links a young cam girl and a trade fair hostess, making the impossibility of female satisfaction all too apparent. Constant disquiet pervades this Elfriede Jelinek adaptation, fuelled by the dismal promises of late capitalism.

Lust
by Ralitza Petrova | with Snejanka Mihaylova, Nikola Mutafov, Mihail Milchev, Alexis Atmadjov
Bulgaria / Denmark / Sweden 2026
Forum | World premiere
With formal rigour and subtly playing with genre, body and soul, this story of knots and liberation follows Lilian, who is as inscrutable as her desires, constrained by a pact of celibacy. When her father dies, she returns to the place of her past.

Masayume
by Nao Yoshigai | with Nao Yoshigai
Japan 2026
Forum | World premiere | Debut film | Documentary form
After her mother’s death, Nao retreats to a Zen temple to wrestle with grief. Blending family archives, hand-drawn animation and performance art, this seductively meditative documentary explores suffering, and the gentle art of transcending it.

Members of the Problematic Family
by R Gowtham | with Karuththadayan, Ara.Ajith Kumar, Kanchana Senthil, TPS, Saravana Siddharth
India 2026
Forum | World premiere | Debut film
A man dies young. Funeral rites – yes; mourning – not so much. A death that stirs and shakes things up. A film that shows the violence of family relationships with uncanny subtlety and verve, the pendulum of void and solace. What a debut feature!

My Name
by Chung Ji-young | with Yeom Hye-ran, Shin Woo-bin, Choi Jun-woo, Park Ji-bin
South Korea 2026
Forum | World premiere
Young-oak is a boy with a girl’s name at a boys’ school rich in testosterone. His mother is not concerned. Veteran director Chung Jiyoung allows the violence of South Korea’s early years to slam into this complex identity drama with the force of a comet.

Nous sommes les fruits de la forêt (We Are the Fruits of the Forest)
by Rithy Panh | with Pa Kreb, Mak Kreb, Yeay Kreb, Mak Lisa, Pouk Choeut
Cambodia / France 2025
Forum | European premiere | Documentary form
The Indigenous Bunong practice agriculture by hand and end up in conflict with Cambodia’s lucrative trade in CO2 certificates, losing the forest of whose ownership they have no conception. Now and then, split screen. A visual firework display.

Panda
by Xinyang Zhang | with Xianmin Zhang, Elvis Yang, Han Chen, Jiahe Lyu, Ruyin Zhang
Singapore / Hong Kong, China 2026
Forum | World premiere | Debut film
Four wraithlike figures of different ages and pasts, haunted by memory, drift along Nanjing’s wintry riverbanks. They share an abandoned ruin where talk turns to poetry, painterly pauses, instrumental reveries and the unabashed group therapy of karaoke.

Piedras preciosas (Gemstones)
by Simón Vélez | with Juan Lugo, Laura Taurines, Sofía Jaramillo, Yira Plaza, Daniel Cortés
Colombia / Portugal 2026
Forum | World premiere | Debut film
Machado is harvesting grapes in France when he is asked to carry out a tricky mission: to steal an emerald back home in Colombia. A tale full of swindles that swings elegantly between bourgeois greed and the rigours of doing what needs to be done.

Prénoms (Given Names)
by Nurith Aviv
France 2026
Forum | World premiere | Documentary form
Flowers as a gift for guests, the Latin alphabet as a form of order. A film of rules which varies, multiplies and expands into a novel of nomadic world knowledge as it narrates. Nurith Aviv visits her friends and asks for their first names – c’est ça!

Szenario (Scenario)
by Marie Wilke
Germany 2026
Forum | World premiere | Documentary form
In Europe’s biggest military model city, war is not just rehearsed, but also directly taught. Marie Wilke’s sober, focused observation shows the Bundeswehr navigating how to deal with the past, adapt to the future and present itself.

The Day of Wrath: Tales from Tripoli
by Rania Rafei
Lebanon / Saudi Arabia / Qatar 2026
Forum | World premiere | Documentary form
The story of a city and its uprisings. From the 1940s into the present, Rania Rafei follows Tripoli, Lebanon’s second-biggest city, over the years, moving through different generations and factions. An act of political tenderness.

The Moths & the Flame
by Kevin Contento | with Jean Voltaire, Malik Hall, Wiltavious McKelton, Tavion Jamal Dent, Helen Contento
USA 2026
Forum | World premiere | Documentary form
In Pahokee, Florida, the myth of the absent Black father is contradicted every day: housework, children’s birthdays, neighbourhood, care. In vignettes brimming with solidarity, Contento traces out his protagonists’ self-confidence. Calm and attentive.

Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt (Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party)
by Daniela Magnani Hüller
Germany 2026
Forum | World premiere | Debut film | Documentary form
Soberly and with restraint, the director reconstructs the attempted femicide she survived 14 years before. Intense conversations with people from her past provide an external perspective on an act subjectively and objectively impossible to grasp.

Berlinale Forum Expanded

A Circle as the Center of the Whole
by Utkarsh
India / USA 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Documentary form | Short film
The city of Delhi is a site of constant excavation, formed by fragments of what is left behind. Archaeology becomes method and metaphor, revealing an absence in the ground around which the city forms.

Born of the Yam
by Mark Chua & Lam Li Shuen | with Yazid Jalil
Singapore 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere
A techno-mythological ritual of light and sound to an imagined demigod born of a yam. This 16mm expanded cinema performance evokes the spectres of ritualism and mythic idols in our modern times.

Butterfly Stories: Malaise II
by Laurence Favre
Switzerland / Germany 2026
Forum Expanded Exhibition | World premiere | Exhibition
This analogue multi-screen installation is part of the ongoing artistic research project “Expanded Spectropoetics”. It addresses collections from natural history museums to activate haunting memories of the forthcoming.

Casting for a Film, Ihsan’s Diary
by Lamia Joreige | with Rana Zidane, Aly Harkous, Imad Alawneh, Omar Ahmed, Dana El Sherif
Lebanon 2026
Forum Expanded Exhibition | World premiere | Exhibition
In Beirut, actors audition for a film based on a soldier’s diary written in Jerusalem in 1915. They interpret scenes, reflect on the First World War and the present-day, and explore longing, identity and memory.

El León
by Diana Bustamante
Colombia 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Documentary form | Short film
Strange images overlap like floating ghosts: a dead body, a singer, an audience. The film shows, paradoxically and theatrically, how death inhabits the León de Greiff Auditorium in Colombia.

Exprmntl 4 Knokke
by Claudia von Alemann, Reinold E. Thiel
Germany 1968
Forum Expanded | Documentary form | Short film
Turn of the year 1967/68: at the fourth EXPRMNTL festival in the Belgian seaside resort of Knokke, the film documents spontaneous performances, happenings and protest actions, capturing – only a few months before May ’68 – the harbingers of cultural upheaval.

Fanfictie: Volcanology
by Riar Rizaldi | with Agatha Irena, Ula Zuhra
Indonesia / Italy 2025
Forum Expanded Exhibition | International premiere | Exhibition
Deep down in the bowels of a mountain, a Dutch geologist’s volcanic theories clash with local cosmologies in the Indonesian archipelago. Colonial science encounters the poetic, radical possibilities of reading nature otherwise.

Filme Pin
by María Rojas Arias & Andrés Jurado (La Vulcanizadora) | with Ana Naomi de Sousa
Colombia / Portugal 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Documentary form | Short film
Between light, metal and silver, a collection of solidarity pins turns into an archive of another scale: spectres of exile and international struggle against Portugal’s fascist and colonial regime.

Film No. 4 (Bottoms)
by Yoko Ono
USA 1966
Forum Expanded
In silent, black-and-white sequences, Yoko Ono shows naked, walking buttocks. The Fluxfilm from 1966 offers a new take on the portrait, proposing an image of humanity in its most vulnerable and egalitarian form.

Floresta do fim do mundo (Forest of the End of the World)
by Felipe M. Bragança, Denilson Baniwa | with Iracema Pankararu, Ítalo Martins, Ywyzar Tentehar
Brazil 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Short film
Suely, an Indigenous woman living in a large Brazilian city, spends her days in a small apartment. In her dreams, she communicates with a forest and connects to secrets of a world undergoing radical changes.

Forever…Forever
by Johann Lurf
Austria / France 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Short film
The uninterrupted light trail of one year and ten months, condensed down to 20 minutes, filmed on a self-made camera. Daily rhythms accelerate, slowly at first, then more intensely. A structuralist film about transience.

Fruits of Despair
by Nima Nassaj
Iran 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Documentary form | Short film
While making a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an Iranian filmmaker is thrust into war himself. He is forced to flee Tehran with his family, and his political essay transforms into a twelve‑day diary of survival, exile and identity.

İki Laborantın Yorgun Saatleri (The Weary Hours of Two Lab Assistants)
by Burak Çevik | with Nalan Kuruçim, Bahar Çevik, Didar Püren Erbek
Turkey / Germany / United Kingdom / Croatia 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Short film
Late at night, two lab assistants analyse an unknown substance. A coffee break turns into a fortune-telling session, shifting their gaze from science to intuition. They imagine a space where rational inquiry and foresight coexist.

Industries of Denial, Stage 10: From Musa Dagh to Port Saïd
by Angela Melitopoulos, Kerstin Schroedinger | with Joséphine Gallagher, Angela Melitopoulos, Kerstin Schroedinger
Germany / Greece / Finland 2025
Forum Expanded Exhibition | International premiere | Exhibition
A cartographic installation with 16mm archival photographs and essayistic travelogues, weaving together the Baghdad Railway’s history and the denial of genocidal politics with the migration routes of eastern Anatolian minorities.

Katabasis
by Martin Moolhuijsen
Germany / Italy 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Animation | Short film
In a cave situated between the ridges of a human fingerprint, a primordial encounter with matter, light and sound unfolds.

Land Invaders
by Cassandra Gardiner, Juan Mateo Menendez
USA 2026
Forum Expanded Exhibition | World premiere | Exhibition
Land Invaders is an 8-bit video game that reimagines the history and legacy of colonialism, letting players symbolically confront intergenerational trauma through arcade-style gameplay.

Let There Be Whistleblowers
by Ken Jacobs, Flo Jacobs
USA 2005
Forum Expanded
A train passes through a tunnel and hurtles onto a station. Time and space are toyed with. Composed to the first part of “Drumming” by Steve Reich. Presented in memory of Flo and Ken Jacobs.

Metanoia
by Bigum + Björge
Germany / Finland 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere
A live expanded cinema performance: a realm of light and shadow blending with sound textures. Moving images and material collages create a dreamlike landscape, awakening something undiscovered and untamed.

MUSCLE
by Karimah Ashadu
Italy / United Kingdom / USA / Germany / Nigeria 2025
Forum Expanded | International premiere | Documentary form | Short film
MUSCLE is an intimate portrait of Lagos bodybuilders. Close-ups of inflated muscles, bulging veins and glistening skin blur into abstract forms, reflecting on the shifting embodiment and representation of the Black male body.

Narrative
by Anocha Suwichakornpong | with Ubolvadee Junthorn, Phayaw Akkahad, Ornanong Thaisriwong, Kunpat Singhathong, Sunanta
Peechavet
Thailand / South Korea / Japan 2025
Forum Expanded | European premiere | Documentary form | Short film
The film stages a fictional trial around the 2010 Bangkok massacre, blending witness testimony with the filmmaker’s research. A meditation on truth and justice in the absence of official accountability.

Nursery Rhymes. (Holy) Water
by Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński | with Joy Alphonsus, Chioma Okoh, Henrie Dennis
Austria / Italy 2025
Forum Expanded | International premiere | Short film
“Rock, water, fire, air…” – the rhythmic singing of a children’s song echoes on. This film intertwines play and the memory of the forced baptism of three African girls in 1855 Bruneck, Tyrol, into acts of resistance.

Oghneyet Touha Al Hazina (Sad Song of Touha)
by Atteyat Al Abnoudy
Egypt 1972
Forum Expanded | Documentary form
A dream-like portrait of life on the streets of Cairo. The unobtrusive camera accompanies fire-eaters, childlike serpent people and others whose stories are told by the piercing voice of poet Abdel Rahman Al Abnoudy, husband of the director.

Phi Pattana (In Sum)
by Komtouch Napattaloong
Thailand 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Documentary form | Short film
Corroded pixels struggle to form an image as they move through Cold War promises of development in rural Thailand, haunted by archival voices.

Pink Schlemmer
by Oliver Husain | with Tanveer Alam
Canada 2025
Forum Expanded | European premiere | Short film
In 2024, a deteriorated 16mm print of a film about Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus dances resurfaced, now awash in vibrant pink from chemical aging. Oliver Husain and collaborators use this flamboyant tint to reimagine the 1925 choreographies.

The Dislocation of Amber
by Hussein Shariffe
Sudan 1975
Forum Expanded | Documentary form
Suakin, a formerly flourishing port in Sudan, today lies in ruins, a shadow of its former self. The film interweaves an artistic tapestry using visual imagery, symbols, abstraction and the melodic voice of the late Sudanese singer Abdel-Aziz Dawoud.

The Recce
by Daniel Mann
United Kingdom / Germany 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Documentary form | Short film
Drawing on a location test filmed in Uganda and an email exchange with the scout, this short film captures cinema’s ties to land and its entanglement with colonial imaginaries, binding the fiction of filmmaking with state-building.

The sun that fell into the water
by Lena Kocutar | with Pilar Petropoulos-White, Ivana Kocutar
Germany / Slovenia 2025
Forum Expanded Exhibition | World premiere | Exhibition
A power plant on Maribor river island in present-day Slovenia, built under German occupation, now powers a computing centre monitoring extinction. Thermal and infrared visions reveal lingering presences, blurring the line between living and non-living.

This Desirable Device
by Mina Simendić
Serbia / Germany 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Documentary form | Short film
Exploring the power that comes with language itself, the worth of the device, not the meaning, an artist considers the actual price of emigrating into a “better life”, while working in a restrictive political climate.

This Suffocating Now
by Vika Kirchenbauer
Germany 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Documentary form | Short film
At a time when elements of fascisation are becoming ever more apparent, ever more pervasive, artist Vika Kirchenbauer takes a personal look at what is in the air in present-day Germany.

Uchronia
by Fil Ieropoulos | with Kristof, Flomaria Papadaki, D. Mortimer, Amani Cosmo, Robert Carithers
Greece / Netherlands 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere
Arthur Rimbaud’s ghost wanders through history, meeting revolutionary figures such as Emma Goldman, David Wojnarowicz and Marsha P. Johnson. A layered collage of encounters questioning identity, revolution and the role of the artistic avant-garde.

Warnungen an die ferne Zukunft (Warnings to the distant future)
by Juliane Jaschnow, Stefanie Schroeder
Germany 2025
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Documentary form | Short film
“How should those who come after us be warned of danger?” A film about the search for the German-German nuclear waste repository – between warning signs, feedback loops, flowing flocks of birds and the area between sign and object.

We Deh Here
by Maybelle Peters
United Kingdom 2025
Forum Expanded Exhibition | German premiere | Exhibition
A 16mm film installation responding to legacies of Scottish colonialism and slavery in Guyana through archival research, matrilineal lines and sewing.

Yurugu – Invisible Lines
by Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, Laurent Van Lancker
Democratic Republic of the Congo / Belgium / USA 2026
Forum Expanded | World premiere | Documentary form | Short film
A film about the gift of re-membering what was dis-membered by the colonial project. Dreamscapes, ritualised practices of sharing and ancestral rhythms render visible the previously invisible lines that once held communities and ecosystems in sacred balance.