A total of 59 films from 32 countries have been selected for the competition of Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus. They include many works by directors who were guests of Generation in previous years, as well as an extraordinary number of feature film debuts.

Juries

The Generation International Jury presents the awards of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk valued at 10,000 Euros. Five personalities have been invited to be on the jury: Hong Kong Chinese producer and director Mabel Cheung produced Shui Yuet Sun Tau, last year’s Crystal Bear winner. New Zealand director Taika Waititi won the Grand Prix of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk for Boy in 2010. Filmmaker Felix Gönnert from Germany is known at Generation for his brilliantly animated, prize-winning short films. In 2010, Australian director and producer of indigenous cinema Rachel Perkins presented Bran Nue Dae at Generation 14plus. With Jonathan Davis, the jury also includes an expert on European film policy.

Eleven children from Berlin between the ages of eleven and 14 as well as seven young adults have been invited to be on the Children’s and Youth Juries. They will award Crystal Bears for the Best Short and Best Feature in the Generation Kplus and 14plus competitions.

Programme

The young protagonists in this year’s films seek confrontation both with others and themselves. “Many of these films explore the inner perspectives of adolescents. In the outside world they encounter guardian angels and anti-heroes, although ultimately it is their own selves that they often come painfully close to,” says section director Maryanne Redpath.

US independent cinema makes a deep and dynamic impact: from tobacco fields in West Kentucky to icescapes in Alaska, young filmmakers tell about coming of age in the USA, at locations remote from the cities. Also real and poetic, between love and country life, is the German feature film Stadt Land Fluss (Harvest) by Benjamin Cantu.

Peruvian director Rosario García-Montero will be concluding a very personal journey: the Berlinale Talent Campus, Talent Project Market and World Cinema Fund were some of the landmarks in making her film Las Malas Intenciones (The Bad Intentions), which will now celebrate its world premiere at Generation. A Berlinale Co-Production Market project has also been selected for Generation: HaDikduk HaPnimi (Intimate Grammar) by Israeli filmmaker Nir Bergman (Panorama 2003: Broken Wings).

Five exceptionally entertaining feature films for the very young come from the Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands. The 32 invited short films complete the programme with their diverse exploration of other worlds – and they do so for audiences of all ages. For Generation, art house starts at the age of four.

British director Tim Pritchard's documentary Street Kids United will have a special screening on the Generation platform. The film accompanies a young South African football team as they train for the “Street Child World Cup”.

Generation Kplus - feature length films

A Pas de Loup (On The Sly) by Olivier Ringer, Belgium/France 2010, World premiere
Bad o Meh (Wind & Fog) by Mohammad Ali Talebi, Iran 2011, World premiere
Den kæmpestore bjørn (The Great Bear) by Esben Toft Jacobsen, Denmark 2011, Animation, World premiere
De Sterkste Man van Nederland (The strongest man in Holland) by Mark de Cloe, Netherlands 2010, International premiere
HaDikduk HaPnimi (Intimate Grammar) by Nir Bergman, Israel 2010
Jørgen + Anne = Sant (Jørgen + Anne) by Anne Sewitsky, Norway/Germany 2010, World premiere
Jutro będzie lepiej (Tomorrow will be better) by Dorota Kędzierzawska, Poland/Japan 2010
Keeper`n til Liverpool (The Liverpool Goalie) by Arild Andresen, Norway 2010, International premiere
Knerten gifter seg (Twigson ties the knot) by Martin Lund, Norway 2010, International premiere
Las Malas Intenciones (The Bad Intentions) by Rosario García-Montero, Peru/Germany /Argentina 2011,
World premiere
Mabul (The Flood) by Guy Nattiv, Israel/Canada/Germany/France 2010, International premiere
Sampaguita, National Flower by Francis Xavier E. Pasion, Philippines 2010, documentary
Une vie de chat (A Cat In Paris) by Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, France/Belgium/Netherlands/Switzerland 2010, Animation

Generation 14plus – feature length films

Apflickorna (She Monkeys) by Lisa Aschan, Sweden 2011, International Premiere
The Dynamiter by Matthew Gordon, USA 2010, World premiere
El Chico que Miente (The Kid Who Lies) by Marité Ugás, Venezuela/Peru 2011, International premiere
Frit fald (Rebounce) by Heidi Maria Faisst, Denmark 2011, World premiere
Griff The Invisible by Leon Ford, Australia 2010
Jess + Moss by Clay Jeter, USA 2011, International premiere
Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand (Against All Odds) by Anka Schmid, Switzerland 2011, documentary, International premiere
On the Ice by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, USA 2011, International premiere
Red Dog by Kriv Stenders, Australia 2010, World premiere
Shanzha shu zhi lian (Under The Hawthorn Tree) by Zhang Yimou, People’s Republic of China 2010
Skyskraber (Skyscraper) by Rune Schjøtt, Denmark 2010, World premiere
Stadt Land Fluss (Harvest) by Benjamin Cantu, Germany 2011, World premiere
West Is West by Andy De Emmony, Great Britain 2010


Generation – special screening (out of competition)

Street Kids United by Tim Pritchard, Great Britain/South Africa 2011, documentary, World premiere


Generation Kplus – short films

chalk by Martina Amati, Great Britain 2010
Dimanche (Sunday) by Patrick Doyon, Canada 2011, Animation
Det siste norske trollet (The Last Norwegian Troll) by Pjotr Sapegin, Norway 2010, Animation
Der grosse Bruder (The Big Brother) by Jesús Pérez, Elisabeth Hüttermann, Switzerland/Germany 2011, Animation
Ensolarado (Sunny) by Ricardo Targino, Brazil 2010
Ghesseh-haye yek khati (Simple Things) by Behzad Farahat, Iran 2010, Animation
Jag är rund (I am round) by Mario Adamson, Sweden 2011, Animation
Kuchao (A Gum Boy) by Masaki Okuda, Japan 2010, Animation
Land of the Heroes by Sahim Omar Kalifa, Belgium 2010
Lily by Kasimir Burgess, Australia 2010
Minnie loves Junior by Andy Mullins, Matthew Mullins, Australia 2010
Mokthar by Halima Quardiri, Canada 2010
Pig by Tom McKeith, Australia 2011
Prilivi Tuda-Suda (Tides To and Fro) by Ivan Maximov, Russian Federation 2010, Animation, out of competition
Rabenjunge (Ravenboy) by Andrea Deppert, Germany 2011, Animation
Thomas by Alex Winckler, Great Britain 2010
Khane Fatemeh Kojast? (Where is Fatemeh’s House?) by Fereydon Najafi, Iran 2010
Zīļuks (Acorn Boy) by Dace Rīdūze, Latvia 2010, Animation


Generation 14plus - short films

Blokes (Blocks) by Marialy Rivas, Chile 2010
Calle Última (Ultima Street) by Marcelo Martinessi, Paraguay 2010
Chica XX Mujer by Isabell Suba, Germany/France 2010
Crossing Salween by Brian O`Malley, Ireland 2010
Ebony Society by Tammy Davis, New Zealand 2010
Get Real! by Evert de Beijer, Netherlands 2010, Animation
Go The Dogs by Jackie van Beek, New Zealand 2011
Jenny by Ingvild Søderlind, Norway 2010
The Legend of the Beaver Dam by Jerome Sable, Canada 2010
Manurewa by Sam Peacocke, New Zealand 2010
Pashmaloo (Hairy) by Ana Lily Amirpour, USA 2010
Sabeel by Khalid Al Mahmood, United Arab Emirates 2010
Tord och Tord (Tord And Tord) by Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Sweden 2010, Animation
Wapawekka by Danis Goulet, Canada 2010