The Berlinale has announced a raft of new titles for its Generation and Series strands. In detail, this year’s Generation Kplus and 14plus will include 24 features and 28 shorts. Described as a selection exploring how young people “perceive the world, how they appropriate it or how they oppose it”, this section’s titles promise to tell “of the power to move mountains that is inherent in them”. The list comprises 12 debut features and a ratio of over 50% female directors, offering “a wide range of cinematic forms and perspectives”.

Among the newly announced European (co-)productions present in the Kplus line-up are Sara Kern’s Moja Vesna [+lee también:
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Next, the Berlinale Series strand will host seven world premieres and will boast a strong Nordic presence. Commenting on this year’s line-up, the head of Berlinale Series, Julia Fidel, highlighted “a return to well-established formats: crime scenes, courtrooms, hospitals and international espionage”.

The much-anticipated Nordic series are Lone Scherfig’s The Shift [+lee también:
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The other two titles are Michal Blaško’s Suspicion [+lee también:
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Here is the complete list of the titles announced (including the previously-announced ones - read news):

Generation

Generation Kplus

Feature Films

The Quiet Girl [+lee también:
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The Hill of Secrets – Lee Ji-eun (South Korea)
Comedy Queen [+lee también:
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entrevista: Sanna Lenken
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Waters of Pastaza [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Inês T Alves (Portugal)
Oink [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mascha Halberstad
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Moja Vesna [+lee también:
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My Small Land – Emma Kawawada (Japan)
The Realm of God – Claudia Sainte-Luce (Mexico)
The Apple Day – Mahmoud Ghaffari (Iran)
Shabu [+lee también:
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entrevista: Shamira Raphaëla
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Boney Piles [+lee también:
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Short Films

The Most Boring Granny in the Whole World - Damaris Zielke (Germany)
Alma and Paz - Cris Gris (Mexico/USA)
Hush Hush Little Bear - Māra Liniņa (Latvia)
Datsun - Mark Albiston (New Zealand)
Rooster - Myo Aung (Myanmar)
Louis I., King of the Sheep - Markus Wulf (Germany/USA)
Luce and the Rock - Britt Raes (Belgium/France/Netherlands)
The Queen of the Foxes - Marina Rosset (Switzerland)
To Vancouver - Artemis Anastasiadou (Greece)
The Dependent Variables - Lorenzo Tardella (Italy)
Wheels on the Bus - Surya Shahi (Nepal)
Suzie in the Garden - Lucie Sunková (Czech Republic/Slovakia)

Generation 14plus

Feature Films

Alis [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Clare Weiskopf and Nicolas van Hemelryck (Colombia/Chile/Romania)
Rookies [+lee también:
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Beba - Rebeca Huntt (USA/Mexico)
Bubble – Tetsurō Araki (Japan)
Kalle Kosmonaut [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Günther Kurth and Tine Kugler (Germany)
Kind Hearts [+lee también:
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Millie Lies Low - Michelle Savill (New Zealand)
Scheme – Farkhat Sharipov (Kazakhstan)
Stay Awake – Jamie Sisley (USA)
The Land of Sasha – Julia Trofimova (Russia)
Sublime - Mariano Biasin (Argentina)
Girl Picture [+lee también:
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Short Films

At Sixteen - Carlos Lobo (Portugal)
Born in Damascus - Laura Wadha (UK)
Fever - Matias Carlier (Switzerland)
Funkele - Nicole Jachmann (Netherlands)
Lay Me by the Shore - David Findlay (Canada)
Memoir of a Veering Storm - Sofia Georgovassili (Greece)
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics - Terril Calder (Canada)
Tinashé - Tig Terera (Australia)
West by God - Scott Lazer (USA)

Berlinale Series

Yosi, the Regretful Spy – Daniel Burman and Sebastián Borensztein (Argentina)
Lust – Ella Lemhagen (Sweden)
Suspicion [+lee también:
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The Rising [+lee también:
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ficha de la serie] – Ed Lilly, Thora Hilmarsdottir, Paul Walker and Carl Tibbetts (UK)
The Shift [+lee también:
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ficha de la serie] – Søren Balle, Ole Christian Madsen and Lone Scherfig (Denmark)
Black Sands [+lee también:
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ficha de la serie] – Baldvin Z (Iceland)
Last Summers of the Raspberries – Philippe Falardeau (Canada)