INTERFILM 41 International Short Film Festival Berlin
4 - 9 November 2025

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IC 08 Analyze... Youthful Wisdom

Youth is awakening, searching, rebelling – and sometimes quiet wisdom. In "Analyze Youthful Wisdom", young individuals follow their desires, resist society's expectations and take their first bold steps towards living lives of their own. A young woman misses her train to a promising rendezvous and is forced to contemplate the true meaning of love. A teenaged boy struggles with unceasing waves of repressed emotion welling up from inside, a young mother defies a curfew and risks everything for freedom, a boy is declared a miracle after shedding bloody tears and a daughter brings her father back down to earth. Finally, a child has doubts about a gift that triggers traumatic memories, while a girl at a racetrack wrestles with identity, deafness and gender.

All films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles.

06.11.25, 20:30h, Cinestar Kino in der KulturBrauerei

07.11.25, 17:00h, Pfefferberg Theater

09.11.25, 21:30h, City Kino Wedding

Analyze... Youthful Wisdom
7 films
I Want to Know What Love Is

I Want to Know What Love Is

Hanna Järgenstedt // Sweden // 2024 // 06:27 min

Animation, Experimental

Crushing on a DJ, Hanna heads out to his gig, but misses her train, leading to an unwanted road trip. Will the flirt go anywhere? Or does she still have some unresolved questions about love, coolness and men in general?

Balyk

Balyk

Tolomush Zhanybekov // France, Kyrgyzstan // 2025 // 11:51 min

Live Action

Bek lives with his uncle in Bishkek, Kirghizstan. Between school and work at the market, he leads a solitary life. After being humiliated during a school trip, he returns home, overwhelmed by an uncontrollable emotion.

[Content Note: Animal cruelty or animal death]

Pippa et Léo

Pippa et Léo

Abeille Tard // Quebec // 2025 // 19:23 min

Live Action

Pippa lives in a supervised group home for young mothers, as she works to prove her ability to fulfil her parental role to the authorities. One night, breaking curfew, Pippa leaves the shelter with her baby.

La sangre

La sangre

The Blood

Joaquín León // Spain // 2025 // 14:40 min

Live Action

Álvaro is a teenager who feels out of place in life. When he suddenly sheds tears of blood at a village procession for the Virgin Mary, the villagers declare it a miracle, and begin to offer him large sums of money.

[Content Note: Blood, Blasphemy]

Floating

Floating

Floating

Jelena Milunović // Serbia, Croatia, Germany // 2025 // 07:01 min

Animation

A father drifts through life like a balloon. Gradually grasping his isolation and struggle with mental illness, his daughter searches for a way to bring him back down to solid ground.

[Content Note: Mental illness]

Sukua

Sukua

Sukua

Omar E. Ospina Giraldo // Colombia // 2025 // 16:41 min

Live Action

Pirimín receives a water gun as a gift. That night, he hears his family recall his discontent when similar weapons forced them to abandon their settlements. Now Pirimín doesn't know what to do with the toy.

Ragamuffin

Ragamuffin

Ragamuffin

Kaitlyn Mikayla // United States // 2025 // 14:27 min

Live Action

A motocross racer spends what seems like an average race weekend with her father. But as the weekend unfolds, she’s faced with her identity, her deafness and what it means to be a girl.