14/12/2011

As every year, the organisers of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival (February 9-19, 2012) are starting to arouse the public’s curiosity before the festive period by revealing the first titles in the selection little by little. Fourteen of the films in the Generation section (which is celebrating its 35th edition) were thus announced today. They represent 16 countries, including a good many European countries, particularly from northern Europe.

The Generation Kplus section will thus screen two Dutch features: Boudewijn Koole’s Kauwboy, in which a child adopts a bird; and Nicole van Kilsdonk’s Taking Chances, in which a little girl hopes that her father will return from his mission in a war zone. The line-up also includes Alice Schmid’s Swiss documentary The Children from the Napf and Janno Põldma and Heiki Ernits’s Estonian/Latvian animated film Lotte and the Moonstone Secret.

Among the European titles, we already know that Generation 14plus will present Ella Lemhagen’s Swedish film The Crown Jewels; Simon Staho’s Danish/Swedish co-production Love Is In The Air; Angelos Abazoglou’s British/Greek title Mustafa’s Sweet Dreams; and Maya Kenig’s French/Israeli co-production Off-White Lies. The rest of the Generation selection will be announced in mid-January.

The Berlinale has also put together the German-French-Slovakian jury for its Perspektive Deutsches Kino section: it comprises seven members presided over by actor-director-screenwriter Jan Henrik Stahlberg.

(Translated from French)