Generation
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Generation films - A selection from previous festival editions
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Deba Hekmat
Last Swim by Sasha Nathwani
GBR 2024, Generation
© Caviar, Pablo & Zeus
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Milinka Winata
Closing Dynasty | Queenie by Lloyd Lee Choi
USA 2023, Generation
© Chris Lew
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Deniska umřela | Dede Is Dead | Dede ist tot by Philippe Kastner
CZE 2023, Generation
© FAMU Prague
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Shantae Barnes-Cowan
Sweet As by Jub Clerc
AUS 2022, Generation
© Nic Duncan / Arenamedia Pty Ltd
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Rozmarína Willems
Mimi | She – Hero by Mira Fornay
SVK 2023, Generation
© MIRAFOX, RTVS
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Arsseni Bultmann, Laura Tonke
Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war | When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before by Sonja Heiss
DEU 2023, Generation
© Komplizen Film GmbH / Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH / Frédéric Batier
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Hung Hsia Hsu
Gong ji | Rooster | Gockel by Myo Aung
MMR, TWN 2021, Generation
© Myo Aung
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Shabu by Shamira Raphaëla
NLD 2021, Generation
© Tangerine Tree
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Fin Argus, Wyatt Oleff
Stay Awake by Jamie Sisley
USA 2022, Generation
© Stay Awake
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Nada para ver aqui | Nothing to See Here by Nicolas Bouchez
PRT, BEL, HUN 2022, Generation
© Nicolas Bouchez
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Aran-Sina Keshvari
Ensilumi | Any Day Now | Erster Schnee by Hamy Ramezan
FIN 2020, Generation
© Aamu Film Company
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Sumeja Dardagan, Pavle Čemerikić
Tabija | The White Fortress by Igor Drljača
CAN, BIH 2021, Generation
© TABIJA FILM INC.
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Irene Zequin, Clementina Folmer
Una escuela en Cerro Hueso | A School in Cerro Hueso | Eine Schule in Cerro Hueso by Betania Cappato
ARG 2021, Generation
© Betania Cappato & Iván Fund
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Maria Galant
Irmã | Sisters in the End of the World by Luciana Mazeto, Vinícius Lopes
BRA 2020, Generation
© Carine Wallauer
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Noémie Merlant
Jumbo by Zoé Wittock
FRA, BEL, LUX 2019, Generation
© Caroline Fauvet
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Andrea Fandos
Las niñas | Schoolgirls | Mädchen by Pilar Palomero
ESP 2020, Generation
© Inicia Films
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Clariella Bizimana, Angel Uwamahoro, Belinda Rubango Simbi
Notre-Dame du Nil | Our Lady of the Nile by Atiq Rahimi
FRA, BEL, RWA 2019, Generation
© Sophie Davin/Les Films du Tambour, Chapter 2
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Tamar van Waning, Jonas Smulders
Paradise Drifters by Mees Peijnenburg
NLD 2020, Generation
© Jasper Wolf/2019 Pupkin
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Hasan Najarian, Sepehr Tehranchi
White Winged Horse by Mahyar Mandegar
IRN 2020, Generation
© Mohammad Masoumi
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Alen Hüseyin Gürsoy
Rauf by Barış Kaya, Soner Caner
TUR 2016, Generation
© Bariş Kaya
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Shea Glover
Crystal Lake by Jennifer Reeder
USA 2016, Generation
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Su Xiaotong
What’s in the Darkness by Wang Yichun
CHN 2015, Generation
© Kong Desheng
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Zohre Eslami
Hendi va Hormoz | Hendi & Hormoz by Abbas Amini
IRN/CZE 2018, Generation
© Three Gardens Film / Ghazaleh Ali Mohammad
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Almost Heaven by Carol Salter
GBR 2017, Generation
© Rocksalt Films / Carol Salter
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Naelle Dariya, Angélique Bridoux
Je fais où tu me dis | Dressed for Pleasure by Marie de Maricourt
CHE 2017, Generation
© GoldenEggProduction / Fanny Mazoyer
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Laia Artigas
Estiu 1993 | Summer 1993 | Sommer 1993 by Carla Simón
ESP 2017, Generation
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My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea by Dash Shaw
USA 2016, Generation
© Tides High PTA, LLC
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Ninnoc by Niki Padidar
NLD 2015, Generation
© Jefrim Rothuizen
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Emilia Ossandón, Agustina Muñoz, Mariana Loyola, Julia Lübbert
Rara by Pepa San Martín
CHL/ARG 2016, Generation
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Ni Kadek Thaly Titi Kasih
Sekala Niskala | Sichtbar und unsichtbar by Kamila Andini
IDN/NLD/AUS/QAT 2017, Generation
© Treewater Productions / Sofyan Syamsul
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Royahaye Dame Sobh | Starless Dreams by Mehrdad Oskouei
IRN 2016, Generation
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Yober Calvo Cuesta
Yover by Edison Sánchez
COL 2018, Generation
© Antrum Films / Daniel Ocampo
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Violeta Castillo
Las plantas | Plants by Roberto Doveris
CHL 2015, Generation
Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus, two competition programmes screening state-of-the-art international cinema. For young audiences and for everyone else. Epic narratives and fleeting moments, flights of fantasy and bitter realities. Coming-of-age stories: awesome, wild and angry, heartfelt and headstrong.
With a comprehensive programme of contemporary films exploring the lives and worlds of children and teenagers, Berlinale Generation enjoys a unique position as the instigator of a convention-breaking young people’s cinema. Headed by Sebastian Markt since 2022 the section is simultaneously a home for outspoken young audiences and open-minded adults. Generation presents the type of cinema that seeks to challenge without overwhelming, nurturing an open and controversial dialogue with its audience, artists, industry guests and film critics.
The selection focuses on films that, in their narratives and cinematic languages, take young people seriously. Stories that are told through the eyes of their young protagonists and which make their worlds tangible. Films that matter, that open doors to unfamiliar worlds. Films that demand bravery, displaying intersectional perspectives and encouraging collective solutions. Films that hold up a mirror to the adult world. Feature films, documentaries and animations, genre films and works that expand the formal language of cinema compete on an equal footing in the section’s two competitions.
Here you can share your opinions about the Generation films and at the same time apply for next year's Youth Jury.
The film questionnaires for Generation 14plus:
Film questionnaire Kplus, PDF (5.3 MB)
Film questionnaire 14plus, PDF (3.4 MB)
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Festival photos of the past years
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Melia Kara
The leading actor at the premiere at Zoo Palast.
Ellbogen · Generation · Feb 18, 2024
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Franco García Becerra, Alberth Merma
Finding the right angle.
Raíz · Generation · Feb 19, 2024
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Nishi Dugar
The director also wrote the screenplay and was the producer and executive producer of the film.
Anaar Daana · Generation · Feb 20, 2024
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Deba Hekmat, Jay Lycurgo, Sasha Nathwani, Lydia Fleming, Solly McLeod, Narges Rashidi
The director (centre) and the cast of the Generation 14plus opening film at the premiere.
Last Swim · Generation · Feb 16, 2024
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Leib Lev Levin, Neomi Harari, Yoav Bavly
The protagonists at the premiere.
Ha’Mishlahat · Generation · Feb 19, 2023
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Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía “Beba” Contreras
Strike a Pose! - The two protagonists are having fun at the Photo Call.
Hummingbirds · Generation · Feb 21, 2023
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Strike a Pose!
The film team at the Photo Call.
Nanitic · Generation · Feb 22, 2023
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Shellane Kate Ong, Kyrie Allison Samodio, Stephen Lopez
The producer, the actor and the director with cardboard masks of the animal that gives the film its title.
Hito · Generation · Feb 23, 2023
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Lucas Roefmans
The protagonist doesn't care much about gravity.
Kind Hearts · Generation · Feb 11, 2022
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Aamu Milonoff, Linnea Leino, Eleonoora Kauhanen
The cast of the film.
Tytöt tytöt tytöt · Generation · Feb 14, 2022
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Maryanne Redpath, Tobias Krell
The section head and the moderator at the Generation Kplus opening.
Generation · Feb 10, 2022
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Rebecca Huntt
The director and protagonist of the film.
Beba · Generation · Feb 13, 2022
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Charlie Areddy, Fred Baillif, Amélie Tonsi, Claudia Grob, Amandine Golay, Anaïs Uldry
The director (top step) and his cast at the premiere.
La Mif · Generation · Freiluftkino Rehberge · Jun 12, 2021
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Melanie Waelde
Incognito: the member of the 2021 Generation International Jury at the premiere of the winning film in the competition of Kplus.
Han Nan Xia Ri · Generation · Freiluftkino Hasenheide · Jun 10, 2021
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Dash Shaw
On the way to the stage - and having arrived there.
Cryptozoo · Generation · Freiluftkino Rehberge · Jun 11, 2021
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Masked and loaded with popcorn at the admission
Una escuela en Cerro Hueso · Generation · Freiluftkino Hasenheide · Jun 11, 2021
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Martha Reyes Arias
The actress taking pictures, eyed by the young guests.
Los lobos · Generation · Feb 24, 2020
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Group photo
The film team.
Die Adern der Welt · Generation · Feb 23, 2020
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Atiq Rahimi
The director won the Crystal Bear for the Best Film, awarded by the Youth Jury in Generation 14plus.
Notre-Dame du Nil · Generation · Feb 28, 2020
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Florencia González Rodríguez, Chloé Cherchyk, Agustina Milstein, Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière, Laura Mara Tablón
With the green kerchiefs the film team expresses its solidarity with the movement Ni una menos (Not one woman less!) which fights for the legalisation of abortions.
Mamá, mamá, mamá · Generation · Feb 22, 2020
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Maryanne Redpath, Leonie Krippendorff, Elina Vildanova, Lena Klenke, Lena Urzendowsky, Jella Haase
The director with her actresses and the section head before the premiere.
Kokon · Generation · Feb 21, 2020
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Yasna Mirtahmasb, Negar Moghaddam
The actors in the cinema hall at the premiere at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Dressage · Generation · Feb 21, 2018
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Protagonists
The young actors on the stage.
ÖDLAND - Damit keiner das so mitbemerkt · Generation · Feb 09, 2013
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Harrison Feldman, Bethany Whitmore, Matthew Whittet
The actors at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Girl Asleep · Generation · Feb 12, 2016
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Olivia Lonsdale, Ayoub Elasri, Sam de Jong, Sigrid Ten Napel
At the premiere.
Prins · Generation · Feb 06, 2015
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Film team
At the premiere.
Estiu 1993 · Generation · Feb 11, 2017
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Trudie Styler, Alex Lawther
The director and the main actor of the US American film.
Freak Show · Generation · Feb 13, 2017
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Sukhbat Batsaikhan, Budee Batsaikhan
The two actors of the film.
Zud · Generation · Feb 14, 2016
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Ekram Zubajdi, Walaa Tanji, Christy Garland
The translator with the protagonist and the director.
What Walaa Wants · Generation · Feb 17, 2018
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Tsubaki Tanaka, Mina Hatanaka
The actress and the producer after the premiere.
Blue Wind Blows · Generation · Feb 17, 2018
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Film team
On the stage in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Cobain · Generation · Feb 17, 2018
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Bruno Ganz, Kidist Siyum Beza, Germinal Roaux
The actors and the director.
Fortuna · Generation · Feb 18, 2018
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Michael Winterbottom
The director of the opening film in 14plus.
On the Road · Generation · Feb 10, 2017
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Film team
Sekala Niskala | The Seen and Unseen | Sichtbar und unsichtbar by Kamila Andini | Generation 2018
Im Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Generation
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Aoife McArdle, Ann Skelly, Ryan Lincoln
The director with her actors on the stage of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Kissing Candice · Generation · Feb 20, 2018
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Rose-Marie Perreault, Anthony Therrien
Two of the actors at the premiere.
Les faux tatouages · Generation · Feb 21, 2018
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Magnus Mariuson, Maria Solrun
The director and her main actor at the premiere.
Adam · Generation · Feb 22, 2018
As part of its commitment to its audience, Generation maintains close connections with Berlin schools and also has special offers to enable extracurricular projects and families to attend the festival. This includes the early release of information via the Generation programme mailing list, reduced ticket prices and ticket reservations for groups of six or more people via the Generation group ticket hotline, as well as a large number of morning screenings.
The manner in which the films are presented plays an important role in Generation. Premieres are celebrated on the red carpet and in the cinemas with the filmmakers and their young stars in attendance. The section facilitates exchanges between the audiences and filmmakers especially focusing on dialogue with younger audience members. The views and questions prompted by diverse cinematic form and content are often challenging and the filmmakers are delighted by fresh perspectives on their work.
Films in Generation Kplus are screened in their original version with English subtitles and German voice-over. The voice-over is prepared by professional translators and spoken by qualified voice artists during the screenings. In addition, each year the festival produces German subtitles for three Generation Kplus films to introduce young cineastes to reading subtitles.
In Generation 14plus, all films are screened in their original version with English subtitles and without the voice-over.
Each film receives an upwardly open age recommendation that has been devised with educational advisors. This recommendation ensures that young audiences encounter films that correspond to the horizon of their own life experience.
The origins of Generation lie in the “Cinema for People Six and up” programme. With this selection, first presented in 1978, the Berlinale responded to the needs of young cineastes who, because of age restrictions had been denied access to the festival up to that point. As the Kinderfilmfest (“Children’s Film Festival”), the initiative developed further into an important platform for a cinema that makes the wealth of cinematic art also accessible to the youngest filmgoers. To meet the constantly growing interest of and in teenage audiences, in 2004 the section was expanded to include the 14plus competition. In 2007 the section was renamed Generation, now with two competitions: Generation Kplus (the former Kinderfilmfest) and Generation 14plus.
Three juries award prizes for the best short and feature-length films in the Generation competitions. They also bestow Honourable Mentions for notable achievements.
The International Jury comprises three experts from the international film industry. They present cash prizes for both competitions.
The members of the Children’s and Youth Jurys are the same age as the target audience. They honour the best films with the Crystal Bears.
Applications to become members of the Children’s and Youth Jurys can be made via the film questionnaires that are distributed in the cinemas during the festival and are also available online. Generation is looking for children between the ages of 11 and 14 and young people of 14 and above who are willing to write openly and curiously about the Generation films and who are happy to share their enthusiasm for cinema with other people. The questionnaires are also forwarded to the participating filmmakers after the festival, so that they can find out first hand how their films were received by the Generation audience.
Films presented in Generation can also qualify for the festival’s section-spanning award: the Berlinale Documentary Award.
In addition, films from the Generation programme are regularly nominated for prizes by the section-spanning, independent juries: the TEDDY AWARD, Heiner Carow Prize, Peace Film Prize and Amnesty International Film Award.
Since 2020, an independent jury from the AG Kino – Gilde e.V. (Association of German Arthouse Cinemas) has awarded a dedicated prize to an outstanding feature-length film in the Generation 14plus competition to promote and strengthen innovative cinema for young people beyond the festival.
Feature-length Film
Ygor Gama
Qila Gill
Susana Borges Gomes
Carmen Gray
Ina Karkani
Seggen Mikael
Natascha Noack
Carlos Pereira
Anas Sareen
Canan Turan
Short Film
David Assmann
Jey Baholzer
Naomi Bechert
Monica Koshka-Stein
Marija Milovanović
Generation maintains a close relationship with the film industry and considers distributors and sales agents as allies in their work towards an ambitious film culture. The visibility brought by the competitions and their awards and the linkage with the European Film Market (EFM) present important opportunities for the films to begin their distribution path in the best possible conditions. In collaboration with the EFM, Generation is working on smoothing the way for films to gain access to new audience segments and supporting them on their further journey beyond the context of the festival. The section’s strong popularity among audiences is evidence of the opportunities that exist to engage a young viewing public with a cinema that is formally diverse and artistically daring.
Since 2006, the Berlinale Schulprojekt (Berlinale School Project) has actively supported the integration of Generation films into the school curriculum. Two film educators advise selected teachers from various kinds of schools and class ages in Berlin and its surrounding areas. The Berlinale School Project takes place in cooperation with VISION KINO Netzwerk für Film und Medienpädagogik gGmbH.
The results from previous years’ projects can be found on the website of our cooperation partner, VISION KINO (in German) and can be used as inspiration for film education work in the school classroom and beyond.
As Generation Section Manager since 2022, Melika Gothe is responsible for film education and cultural participation.