2024 | Generation Reports

Racism in the job search: background research on “Ellbogen”

25Feb

By Zaide E.No Comments

Racism in the job search: background research on “Ellbogen”

Racism in Germany is a serious and structural problem. The Berlin film "Ellbogen" is about 18-year-old Hazal, who tries to forge her own path. She fails because of the racist system. Not only in her job search, but also in her everyday life. This background research deals with everyday racism and the possible mechanisms for dismantling it. When talking about racism, it is important to differentiate. There is of course overt racism, such as insults and physical attacks. But so-called microaggressions also play a major role. These are the everyday racisms that so many people are exposed to. These can include glances in public, racist ideas shining through or the generalisation of character traits attributed to a certain group. This form of everyday racism, microaggressions, are a large pa...

Around the world through the eyes of a child

25Feb

By JohannaNo Comments

Review

Around the world through the eyes of a child

A review of the Kplus short film program For once, I managed to fit the entire Kplus short film program into my schedule this year. Unlike the selection of feature-length films, which is quite repetitive this year, especially in combination with the 14plus feature-length films, the short film selection at Kplus is at least coherent and simultaneously very diverse. Sexual violence and breach of trust Particularly memorable for me is Sukoun by Dina Naser. Hearing-impaired Hind (Malik Nassar) has a passion for karate. In a world that is not designed for the hearing impaired, her karate studio is her safe space. She is fond of the other students and her mentor. Until the day she is sexually assaulted. It captures with impressive urgency and sensitivity how children can suffe...

24Feb

By ClaraNo Comments

Review

Together it’s going to be okay

a review on „It’s okay“. Dancing is at the centre of In-young's (Lee Re) life. A year after her mother's death, dancing still gives her comfort and feelings of strength and security, because professional dancing was also a dream for In-young's mother, which In-young wants to fulfil for her and herself. On the outside, In-young always seems happy and full of life, but on the inside, the teenager has to deal with problems that no one her age should have to face: In-young has lived alone since her mother's death, has no guardian and avoids the child care services, which appear at her door from time to time. With her small mini-job in a convenience store, however, she can hardly afford the rent, which is why In-young is kicked out of her flat and decides to secretly stay at her dance s...

Travel the world through pain and euphoria

23Feb

By KonstantinNo Comments

Review

Travel the world through pain and euphoria

It's Thursday evening and auditorium 8 of the CineStar CUBIX cinema on Alexanderplatz is completely full. Many young friend groups seem to take advantage of the late screening time to enjoy a few short films after school on a weeknight This year's short film program two in the Generation 14+ section once again takes us on a journey around the world. We start in Brazil with "Lapso" by director Caroline Cavalcanti. It is here that Bel and Juliano cross paths in a public library where they are both doing community service. Their eyes and hearts quickly meet. Sensitively, the film follows the story of their encounter, which is made particularly interesting by the fact that Bel is almost completely deaf. There is so much tenderness in the dedication with which Juliano begins to lea...

23Feb

By ClaraNo Comments

Background

About strong daughters and mothers

a review on "Reinas" Lima, Peru, 1992: The country is facing political and economic crises and challenges. While the economy collapses and drastic inflation burdens the citizens, terror and violence are on the political agenda. In April 1990, elections are held, which Alberto Fujimori wins with his newly founded "Change 90" party. He is seen by the population as a political outsider who stands up for disadvantaged groups and wants to take action against terrorism and corruption. He is supposedly fighting terrorism with his policy by handing out weapons to the local communities so that they can defend themselves against terror. In addition, the executive is no longer taking action against basic terrorism, but rather against individual groups suspected of terrorism. Today, the Inter-Am...

21Feb

By JohannaNo Comments

Interview

Taking the Berlinale’s hearts by storm

After an incredible premiere of Young Hearts by Anthony Schatteman I can’t help but want to speak to Anthony about his debut feature film. We meet at Berlinale Palast for an interview about Young Hearts and his experience at Berlinale so far. fGR: You’ve lived in Berlin before, but this is your first time at Berlinale presenting your own film. Do you have a favourite interaction so far or did you experience something particularly surprising? Anthony Schatteman: Today we showed the film to a very young audience for the first time. At the premiere on Saturday we had a few kids, but today it was a room full of schools. That scared me a bit, but the response was really good. At first I thought that maybe the children just like to clap, but during the Q&A so many of them came to the m...