Artists’ Film International (AFI) 2025: Dream States
Friday, Nov 14, 2025 – Thursday, Nov 20, 2025
Featuring works by Dalia Al Kury, Sanja Anđelković, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Babu Eshwar Prasad, Anette Gellein, Abdul Hamid Mandgar, Heesoo Kwon, Cocoy Lumbao, Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Isabelle Nouzha, Elinor O'Donovan, Ahmet Rüstem Ekici & Hakan Sorar, Sin Wai Kin, Kialy Tihngang, Mykolas Valantinas, and Melisa Zulberti
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Video still: Melisa Zulberti, Sobre si mismo (About itself), 2023. Courtesy and © Melisa Zulberti and Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires. Selected for AFI’25 by Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires
Between November 14 and 20, 2025 n.b.k. presents this year's Artists’ Film International (AFI’25) program. Artists' Film International 2025 is curated by Forma in collaboration with sixteen arts organisations, who present the programme around the world.
Dream States — the 18th edition of Artists’ Film International — commenced on March 3, 2025 with a program of artists’ moving image. Exploring dreaming as both a transformative state and a radical act, the films in Dream States challenge perceptions of reality and open pathways to alternative futures. Curated by Forma with 16 cultural institutions across four continents, this year’s edition showcases a remarkable cohort of artists, each selected or commissioned by an AFI’25 partner. Presented in diverse formats, including exhibitions, festivals, and screenings, AFI’25 unfolds across the partners’ venues throughout 2025, guiding global audiences through mythic worlds, dystopian landscapes, fractured memories, and speculative possibilities.
The program is presented around the world at the AFI'25 partner venues: argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium; Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan in eXiLe e.V., (CCAA in EXiLe), Frankfurt, Germany; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; Forma, London, UK; Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, USA; MCAD, Manila, Philippines; mmag foundation, Amman, Jordan; Project 88, Mumbai, India; Sapieha Palace, branch of the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania; Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland; Tromsø Kunstforening,Tromsø, Norway; Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, Germany
Friday, November 14, 2025, 6:30 pm
Kick-off Screening
The presentation starts with a screening on November 14, 2025, at 6.30 pm and an introduction by Anna Lena Seiser (Head of n.b.k. Video-Forum, General Manager n.b.k.) in the exhibition space of n.b.k., featuring five works from the AFI’25 program by Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Elinor O’Donovan, Ahmet Rüstem Ekici & Hakan Sorar, Sin Wai Kin, and Kialy Tihngang.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 2–6 pm
& Thursday, November 20, 2025, 2–8 pm
Screening at n.b.k. Video-Forum
On November 19 and 20, 2025 all works of AFI’25 will be screened in the premises of the n.b.k. Video-Forum during its opening hours. Individual works can be viewed separately on request.
Free admission
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