Come ogni anno, la sezione Generation propone un numero impressionante di opere, spesso bacino per altri festival internazionali a venire. Maryanne Redpath ha selezionato insieme al suo staff 59 titoli tra cui 29 anteprime mondiali e dodici opere prime da 34 nazioni e con una prevalenza di autrici donne che superano il 50 per cento delle opere in programma.
La 43/ma edizione di Berlinale Generation, dedicata al mondo dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza e divisa nelle due sezioni Generation Kplus e Generation 14plus, include opere di Pilar Palomero, al suo debutto nel lungometraggio e scoperta in Italia nella sezione Corti del Lucca Film Festival curata da Rachele Pollastrini, con lo splendido La Noche de todas las cosas. La giovane regista spagnola presenta “Las niñas”, dove la dodicenne Celia, spinta dalla ribelle Brisa, vive i suoi turbolenti dodici anni. Le due si ribelleranno alla rigida autorità del collegio femminile cattolico che frequentano. Una dolorosa ricerca della propria identità. Il ritorno di un veterano del cinema giapponese come Nobuhiro Suwa, autore degli splendidi M/Other e H Story, realizzati tra la fine degli anni novanta e il nuovo millennio, porta a Berlino Kaze no Denwa (Voices in the Wind) dove la giovane Haru, interpretata dalla star Serena Motola, va alla ricerca delle tracce legate alla sua famiglia, dopo che questa è stata sterminata dallo Tsunami del 2011. Elaborazione del trauma attraverso un delicatissimo e minimale road movie. I titoli e le co-produzioni italiane presenti sono “Palazzo di Giustizia”, opera prima di Chiara Bellosi, dove un giorno ordinario durante un processo per rapina ed omicidio, viene osservato attraverso lo sguardo delle figlie degli accusati. Il secondo titolo italiano è “Progresso Renaissance” di Marta Anatra, documentario ambientato nel sardo Portovesme, luogo abbandonato che la regista filma in 16mm. Alexandre Rockwell porta Sweet Thing, film su una famiglia disfunzionale.
Ecco i titoli delle due sezioni Generation KPlus e Generation 14plus
Generation Kplus
Death of Nintendo
Philippines / USA
by Raya Martin
World premiere
Un diable dans la poche
France
by Antoine Bonnet, Mathilde Loubes
World premiere / Short film / Animation
A Fool God
France
by Hiwot Admasu Getaneh
Short film
H is for Happiness
Australia
by John Sheedy
International premiere / Debut film
Los lobos
Mexico
by Samuel Kishi Leopo
Mignonnes (Cuties)
France
by Maïmouna Doucouré
Debut film
Perro
Germany
by Lin Sternal
World premiere / Debut film / Documentary form
Sweet Thing
USA
by Alexandre Rockwell
World premiere
Veins of the World (Die Adern der Welt)
Germany / Mongolia
by Byambasuren Davaa
World premiere
Broken Bird
USA
by Rachel Gordon
World premiere / Short film
Elders
Australia
by Tony Briggs
Documentary form / Short film
El nombre del hijo (The Name of the Son)
Argentina
by Martina Matzkin
International premiere / Short film
El sghayra (Miss)
Algeria / France
by Amira Géhanne Khalfallah
International premiere / Short film
El silencio del río (The Silence of the River)
Peru
by Francesca Canepa
World premiere / Short film
En route
Netherlands
by Marit Weerheijm
International premiere / Short film
Hello Ahma
USA
by Siyou Tan
Short film
The Kites
Iran
by Seyed Payam Hosseini
World premiere / Short film
Der kleine Vogel und die Bienen (The Little Bird and the Bees)
Switzerland
by Lena von Döhren
World premiere / Animation / Short film
Las niñas (Schoolgirls)
Spain
by Pilar Palomero
World premiere / Debut film
Lístek (Leaf)
Czech Republic
by Aliona Baranova
World premiere / Animation / Short film
Mamá, mamá, mamá (Mum, Mum, Mum)
Argentina
by Sol Berruezo Pichon-Riviére
World premiere / Debut film
Mishou
Germany / Bulgaria
by Milen Vitanov
World premiere / Animation / Short film
Money Honey
New Zealand
by Isaac Knights-Washbourn
World premiere / Short film
Mugge & vejfesten (Monty and the Street Party)
Denmark
by Anders Morgenthaler and Mikael Wulff
International premiere / Animation
Ochite mi sini, rokljata sharena (Blue Eyes and Colorful My Dress)
Germany
by Polina Gumiela
World premiere / Documentary form
Onderhuids (Under the Skin)
Netherlands
by Emma Branderhorst
International premiere / Short film
Rã (Frogs)
Brazil
by Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Julia Zakia
International premiere / Short film
Sthalpuran (Chronicle of Space)
India
by Akshay Indikar
World premiere
Sune – Best Man
Sweden
by Jon Holmberg
International premiere
toni_with_an_i
United Kingdom
by Marco Alessi
International premiere / Short film
Qiu shi (Harvest)
People’s Republic of China
by Sun Lijun
World premiere / Animation / Short film
Generation 14plus
Alice Júnior
Brazil
by Gil Baroni
International premiere
Babylebbe (Babydyke)
Denmark
by Tone Ottilie
World premiere / Short film
Comrades
Hong Kong, China
by Kanas Liu
International premiere / Documentary form / Short film
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
Ukraine / Lithuania
by Iryna Tsilyk
Documentary form / Debut film
Grevillea
Australia
by Jordan Giusti
World premiere / Short film
Hot Mother
New Zealand
by Lucy Knox
World premiere / Short film
Irmã (Sisters in the End of the World)
Brazil
by Luciana Mazeto, Vinícius Lopes
World premiere / Debut film
Jumbo
France / Belgium / Luxembourg
by Zoé Wittock
Debut film
Kaze no Denwa (Voices in the Wind)
Japan
by Nobuhiro Suwa
International premiere
La déesse des mouches à feu (Goddess of the Fireflies)
Canada
by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
World premiere
Le mal du siècle (The Great Malaise)
Canada
by Catherine Lepage
International premiere / Animation / Short film
Palazzo di Giustizia (Ordinary Justice)
Italy / Switzerland
by Chiara Bellosi
World premiere / Debut film
Panteres (Panthers)
Spain
by Èrika Sánchez
World premiere / Short film
Progresso Renaissance
Italy / France
by Marta Anatra
International premiere / Documentary form / Short film
White Winged Horse
Iran
by Mahyar Mandegar
World premiere / Short film
Who Can Predict What Will Move You
USA
by Livia Huang
World premiere / Short film
Yalda, la nuit du pardon (Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness)
France / Germany / Switzerland / Luxembourg / Lebanon / Iran
by Massoud Bakhshi
Black Sheep Boy
France
by James Molle
World premiere / Short film / Animation
Clebs
Canada / Morocco
by Halima Ouardiri
International premiere / Short film / Documentary form
The Flame
Australia
by Nick Waterman
World premiere / Short film / Documentary form
Goodbye Golovin
Canada
by Mathieu Grimard
International premiere / Short film
Kokon
Germany
by Leonie Krippendorff
World premiere
Meu nome é Bagdá (My Name is Baghdad)
Brazil
by Caru Alves de Souza
World premiere
Något att minnas (Something to Remember)
Sweden
by Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Short film / Animation
Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile)
France
by Atiq Rahimi
Paradise Drifters
Netherlands
by Mees Peijnenburg
International premiere / Debut film
Pompei
Belgium / France / Canada
by Anna Falguères, John Shank
White Riot
United Kingdom
by Rubika Shah
International premiere / Debut film / Documentary form
