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Berlin International Film Festival · 2013

Berlin International Film Festival 2013

Generation

A selection of films aimed at younger audiences.

Programme

19 films · 3 reviews

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AninA

After a fight in the playground, a ten year old girl receives an unusual punishment.

(Country: Uruguay, Colombia; Year: 2013; Director: Alfredo Soderguit; Stars: Federica Lacanio, Guillermina Pardo, Lucía Parrilla, María Mendive, César Troncoso)

Attack Of The Brainsucker

Worried parents seek scientific help after their young daughter insists the monsters she's obsessed with are invading her bedroom.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Sid Zanforlin; Writer: Chris Bavota, Sid Zanforlin; Stars: Keyanna Fielding, Arthur Holden, Jeff Lefebvre, Neil Napier, Janine Theriault, Alex Weiner)

Baby Blues

Life spins out of control as a teenage mother struggles to cope with caring for her baby.

(Country: Poland; Year: 2012; Director: Kasia Roslaniec; Stars: Magdalena Berus, Nikodem Rozbicki, Klaudia Bulka, Michal Trzeciakowski)

Capturing Dad

Two sisters attend the funeral of the father who left their family so long ago thatthey barely remember him.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2012; Director: Ryota Nakano; Stars: Makiko Watanabe, Erisa Yanagi, Nanoka Matsubara, Kenichi Takito, Satoshi Nikaido)

Don't Expect Praises

Rather than go home to his gran as he is supposed to, a schoolboy decides to stay with his friend's family for the summer.

(Country: China, South Korea; Year: 2012; Director: Yang Jin; Stars: Li Shuchen, Wang Chen, Zhang Yuxuan, Peng Kehao)

Eskil & Trinidad (Eskil And Trinidad)

A lonely boy who travels around northern Sweden with his father becomes fascinated by the building of a boat.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2012; Director: Stephan Apelgren; Stars: Linus Oscarsson, Ann Petrén, Torkel Petersson)

The Eternal Night of Twelve Moons (La Eterna Noche De Las Doce Lunas)

A documentary about the girls' hut into which Wayuu girls move for a year after they firststart menstruating.

(Country: Columbia; Year: 2013; Director: Priscila Padilla)

Hide Your Smiling Faces

Review preview for Hide Your Smiling Faces

A poetic and tense debut that explores not so much the coming of age as the coming of mortality.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
Tragedy forces a group of children to confront their own mortality.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Daniel Patrick Carbone; Stars: Ryan Jones, Nathan Varnson, Colm O'Leary) , Official site , Trailer

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Jin

A teenage rebel finds herself caught between the guerillas and the army in Turkish Kurdistan's civil war.

(Country: Turkey; Year: 2013; Director: Reha Erdem; Stars: Deniz Hasgüler, Onur Ünsal, Sabahattin Yakut)

Marussia

An Eastern European migrant and her small daughter wander the streets of Paris looking for somewhere to stay.

(Country: France, Russia; Year: 2013; Director: Eva Pervolovici; Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Marie-Isabelle Shteynman, Dounia Sichov, Georges Babluani)

Mother, I Love You (Mammu, Es Tevi Milu)

Review preview for Mother, I Love You

Nords gets an excellent performance from Konovalovs - contrasting the enjoyment of the wide open spaces of his home city at night with the stress that waits for him inside his home or school.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Desperate not to disappoint his mother, an introverted boy gets into increasingly difficult situations.

(Country: Latvia; Year: 2013; Director: Janis Nords; Stars: Kristofers Konovalovs, Vita Varpina, Matiss Livcans, Indra Brike)

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Peter

A street musician cross dresses to get a job in a petrol station.

(Country: Hungary, Austria; Year: 1934; Director: Hermann Kosterlitz; Stars: Francisca Gaál, Hans Jaray, Felix Bressart)

Pluto

Review preview for Pluto

Pluto is an oddly funny film - inhabiting as isolated a world as its titular celestial body.

Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
A boy works hard to try and enter the elite class at his school, but is kept out by a brutal clique.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2012; Director: Shin Su-won; Writer: Su-won Shin; Stars: David Lee, Sung June, Cho Sung-ha, Kim Kkob-bi, Kim Kwon)

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Red Princesses

Life is hard for two girls perpetually on the move with their Sandinista parents.

(Country: Costa Rica, Venezuela; Year: 2013; Director: Laura Astorga Carrera; Stars: Valeria Conejo, Aura Dinarte, Fernando Bolaños, Carol Sanabria)

Satellite Boy

A boy embarks on a daring journey to save the land he shares with his grandfather.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2012; Director: Catriona McKenzie; Stars: David Gulpilil, Cameron Wallaby, Joseph Pedley)

Stepping on the Flying Grass

Asked to write a school essay about his dearest wish, a boy determines he will make it come true: he will go to a padang restaurant and eat like a king.

(Country: Indonesia; Year: 2012; Director: Eugene Panji; Stars: M Syihab Imam Muttaqin, Rizqullah Maulana Daffa, Iqbal Zuhda Irsyad, Dewi Wulandari Cahyaningrum)

The Swimming Pool

Four young people spend time at the pool on a slow summer day.

(Country: Cuba, Venezuela; Year: 2012; Director: Carlos Machado Quintela; Stars: Raúl Capote, Mónica Molinet, Felipe García, Carlos Javier Martínez, Marcos Costa)

Wasteland - So That No One Becomes Aware Of It (Ödland - Damit Keiner Das So Mitbemerkt)

A documentary about refugee children who have no possessions or security but all the time in the world.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2013; Director: Anne Kodura)

The Zigzag Kid

A boy told to learn some good behaviour before his Bar Mitzvah is taken on an unexpected adventure by a stranger.

(Country: Netherlands, Belgium; Year: 2012; Director: Vincent Bal; Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Burghart Klaussner, Thomas Simon, Fedja van Huêt, Camille de Pazzis, Jessica Zeylmaker)