Re:Frame 2026 Zine

Re:Frame 2026: Nearby and Opaque

The first publication of Re:Frame, published by CiLENS e.V. in Berlin.

Screenings end, and the conversations around them rarely get written down. This book is our attempt to keep them. Across 144 pages, it brings together the curatorial texts for all seven programmes of Re:Frame 2026, interviews with the selected filmmakers, and texts written by the filmmakers themselves on how their works came to be.

Inside

· An opening essay on "Nearby and Opaque" and a foreword by the editor

· Curatorial texts for all seven programmes

· Interviews with the selected filmmakers

· Texts and reflections by the filmmakers

· Filmmakers A–Z

Details

Digital edition (PDF), 144 pages, [XX] MB

Language: English

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About Re:Frame

Re:Frame is a Berlin-based curatorial platform for East and Southeast Asian moving image and its diasporas, initiated by CiLENS. Its first edition, Nearby and Opaque, took place in Berlin from 10 to 19 September 2026, bringing together films and filmmakers from across the region and its diasporas. Since 2022, CiLENS has been curating Sinophone cinema in Berlin, most notably through Indie Chinese Cinema Week. Re:Frame grows out of that work and opens it to a wider field of practices shaped by entangled histories of migration, translation and belonging.

Pay what you like

The minimum price is €1.99. Re:Frame and this publication are entirely self-funded and made by volunteers. If you can pay more, every extra euro goes directly to the people who made this book and to the next edition of Re:Frame.

Edited by Nina Pataridze

Designed by Mandy GOU & Kelly Entong WU

Published by CiLENS e.V. · @cilens.berlin