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Wresting Meaning from the World

The films in Generation 2025

Heluney Nerio Niaza
Akababuru: Expresión de asombro | Akababuru: Expression of Astonishment | Akababuru: Ausdruck des Erstaunens by Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí
COL 2025, Generation
© Laura Rave Escalante, José Ramírez Hernández

Kamillo Ignatiussen
Anngeerdardardor | The Thief | Dieb by Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken
DNK, GRL 2025, Generation
© Philip Peng Rosenthal

Camila Botelho, Isabella Guido, Ricardo Bagge
Arame farpado | Barbed Wire by Gustavo de Carvalho
BRA 2025, Generation
© Renato Groberman Hojda

Atardecer en América | Sunset over America by Matías Rojas Valencia
BRA, CHL, COL 2025, Generation

Autokar by Sylwia Szkiłądź
BEL, FRA 2025, Generation

Ibrahim Halim
Beneath Which Rivers Flow by Ali Yahya
IRQ 2025, Generation
© Ali Ameer

Danny Power
Christy by Brendan Canty
IRL, GBR 2025, Generation
© Sleeper Films, Wayward Films, Nite Owl Film & TV

Daye: Seret Ahl El Daye | The Tale of Daye’s Family by Karim El Shenawy
EGY, SAU 2024, Generation

William Costa, Taciana Bastos
De menor | Underage by Caru Alves de Souza
BRA 2025, Generation
© Leonardo Feliciano

Down in the Dumps | Tief unten by Vera van Wolferen
NLD 2025, Generation

Tania Doumbe Fines
Fantas by Halima Elkhatabi
CAN 2024, Generation
© Ménad Kesraoui

Hora do recreio | Playtime by Lucia Murat
BRA 2025, Generation

Ingrid Torelli
Howl by Domini Marshall
AUS 2025, Generation
© Matthew Chuang

Daphne Patakia, Nikolakis Zeginoglou
I Agries Meres Mas | Our Wildest Days by Vasilis Kekatos
GRC, FRA 2025, Generation
© Yorgos Valsamis

Leire Bravo Ruiz, Laura Gómez
Juanita by Karen Joaquín, Uliane Tatit
ESP 2025, Generation

David Webster
Julian and the Wind by Connor Jessup
CAN 2024, Generation
© John Ker

Ghazy Adindra, Jordan Omar, Al Ghazali, Cleo Haura
Little Rebels Cinema Club by Khozy Rizal
IDN 2024, Generation

Maya, donne-moi un titre | Maya, Give Me a Title | Maya, schenkst du mir einen Titel? by Michel Gondry
FRA 2024, Generation
© Partizan Films

Serena, Laura Brandão
A natureza das coisas invisíveis | The Nature of Invisible Things | Das Wesen unsichtbarer Dinge by Rafaela Camelo
BRA, CHL 2025, Generation

Kadia Ndiaye Fall
Ne réveillez pas l’enfant qui dort | Don’t Wake the Sleeping Child by Kevin Aubert
SEN, FRA, MAR 2025, Generation

Zoe Peak
On a Sunday at Eleven | Sonntags um elf by Alicia K. Harris
CAN 2024, Generation
© Frontgirl Films

Only on Earth by Robin Petré
DNK, ESP 2025, Generation

Leqaize Williams
Ornmol | White Ochre by Marlikka Perdrisat
AUS 2025, Generation
© Harry Jak

El paso | The Leap | Der Schritt by Roberto Tarazona
CUB 2025, Generation
© EICTV

Paternal Leave by Alissa Jung
DEU, ITA 2025, Generation
© Match Factory Productions, Wildside

Quaker by Giovanna Molina
USA 2025, Generation
© Vittoria Campaner

Ran Bi Wa | A Story about Fire | Eine Geschichte vom Feuer by Li Wenyu
CHN 2025, Generation
© Shanghai Animation Film Studio

Kurangi Vijayshri Nagraj, Akshara Padwal, Sammara Khan
Ruse | Finte by Rhea Shukla
IND 2025, Generation
© Tanmay Chowdhary

Sous ma fenêtre, la boue | The Mud Under My Window by Violette Delvoye
FRA, BEL 2025, Generation
© Violette Delvoye

Space Cadet | Robot, Celeste & das All by Eric San (aka Kid Koala)
CAN 2025, Generation
© OUTSIDERS

Maris Racal
Sunshine by Antoinette Jadaone
PHL 2024, Generation

Tales from the Magic Garden | Geschichten aus dem Zaubergarten by David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar, Jean-Claude Rozec
CZE, SVK, SVN, FRA 2025, Generation
© Maur film, Artichoke, ZVVIKS, Vivement Lundi

Safa Gharbaoui
Têtes Brûlées by Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama
BEL 2025, Generation
© Grimm Vandekerckhove

Haiden Angutimarik, Theresia Kappianaq
Uiksaringitara | Wrong Husband by Zacharias Kunuk
CAN 2025, Generation
© Kingulliit Productions

Konosuke Harada
Umibe é Iku Michi | Seaside Serendipity | Sommerliche Zufälle by Satoko Yokohama
JPN 2025, Generation
© Eri Okamoto

Bhanita Das, Basanti Das
Village Rockstars 2 by Rima Das
IND, SGP 2024, Generation
© Rima Das

Wish You Were Ear by Mirjana Balogh
HUN 2025, Generation
© Mirjana Balogh

Lav Novosel
Zečji nasip | Sandbag Dam by Čejen Černić Čanak
HRV, LTU, SVN 2025, Generation
© Kinorama

REN Zihan, JAHSELEH Yesl
Zhi Wu Xue Jia | The Botanist | Der Botaniker by Jing Yi
CHN 2025, Generation
© Monologue Films

Zirkuskind | Circusboy by Julia Lemke, Anna Koch
DEU 2025, Generation
© Julia Lemke / Flare Film
What cinema can be: a journey back to the world 4,000 years ago and a look at tomorrow. Films that only speak in images and those that bear eloquent testimony in words. Room for feelings, for sadness and love, for anger and rebellion. And the ever-recurring question: How can we support each other when it really matters?
As the Berlinale’s section for young audiences, Generation presents a programme dedicated to the perspectives of young people which aims to create a space for their hopes and dreams, for facing challenges and crossing thresholds, for the opportunity to connect with the world together. It is worth your while to explore the entire range of the Generation programme. For this purpose, young cineastes can benefit from the newly introduced Generation Badge – 14plus which grants access to all Generation screenings during the festival. Below, we present a short tour of the selection.
A dream of cinema as a form of self-assertion: in Ne réveillez pas l’enfant qui dort (Don’t Wake the Sleeping Child), Diamant dreams about living life as a filmmaker. When her parents have other plans for her, she evades them by refusing to wake up. In Little Rebels Cinema Club, Doddy introduces his friends to the magic of the cinema as a space that keeps memories alive and as a tool for giving shape to one’s own fears and longings.
Cinema as a place that makes us rethink our relationship with nature and animals: Only on Earth looks at climate change from the perspective of the Spanish wild horses whose habitat is threatened by forest fires every year. Beneath Which Rivers Flow takes us to a marshland in Iraq where Ibrahim and his closest companion, a water buffalo, find themselves in a world that is growing increasingly alien. In the cinema, animals return our gaze and present us with a different image of ourselves.

Beneath Which Rivers Flow von Ali Yahya
Cinema as a place that can provide solace: in Têtes brûlées, twelve-year-old Eya has to come to terms with the death of her beloved brother and finds support in her faith, her family and the solidarity of her friends with whose help she transforms grief into an act of resilience. The cosmic musical fairy tale Space Cadet depicts the connective power of shared memories: although the astronaut Celeste and the robot that has accompanied her throughout her childhood now face their own separate challenges, they discover that what they mean to each other endures. Cinema creates space for emotions of all kinds.
And cinema, last but not least, as a place that allows us to experience the importance of community. In Our Wildest Days, for example, a young woman learns what it can mean to join up with others in order to try and defy the adversities of the world together. In On a Sunday at Eleven, a young Black ballerina immerses herself in a dreamy, visually opulent and empowering community of Black women. In the cinema, we are always less alone.