Forum Expanded's 2015 Berlinale program reflects on cinema's closed doors through experimental film and video

The 65th Berlin International Film Festival, known as Berlinale, took place from February 5 to 15, 2015, with the Forum Expanded segment hosted at the Akademie der Künste. Under the theme 'To the Sound of the Closing Door,' it presented essayistic works, including Jen Lui's 'The Machinist's Lament' (2014) and Yu Cheng-Ta's 'Practicing Live' (2014). Noteworthy films included Wim Wenders's 'Every Thing Will Be Fine' (2015), featuring James Franco, and Jafar Panahi's 'Taxi' (2015), which earned the Golden Bear. Additional films of interest were 'Madare ghalb atomi' (2015), 'Balikbayan #1' (2015), 'The Story of Judas' (2015), 'The Club' (2015), 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato' (2015), and 'The Forbidden Room' (2015), highlighting a range of innovative narratives.