KUKI .18 Young Short Film Festival Berlin
2 - 9 November 2025

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TS 02 TeenScreen 14+

Where innermost selves are turned inside out to reveal who they really are! Whether you're a Bowie fan, a dancer, bald-headed, stuffed with tiny acrobats or thundering down the highway in a crowded moving van, these stories explore different manners of emancipation from family and social structures, lovingly conveying the hopes and dreams of their protagonists.

Themes: 1980s, David Bowie, longing, beauty standards, migration, family, conflict, separation, dance, similarities and differences, cultural appropriation, self-empowerment, emancipation, flight, dreams, motherhood, child marriage, anti-queer discrimination, oppression, performance, hair, identity

School subjects: Ethics, sports, art, German

03.11.25, 14:00h, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain Saal 5

06.11.25, 10:00h, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain Saal 2

08.11.25, 15:00h, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain Saal 2

TeenScreen ab 14
6 films
Blisters

Blisters

Callie Keels Ju / Alia Wilhelm // United States, United Kingdom // 2024 // 12:57 min

Live Action

1983 in Manhattan. Born to a Turkish father and an absent Korean mother, Moon is struggling to find her place in the world. While her idol David Bowie plays a concert a few blocks a way, Moon helps her dad run a 24/7 grocery store and dreams of being a gorgeous shape-shifting popstar like Bowie too.

Still Moving

Still Moving

Still Moving

Rui Ting Ji // Quebec // 2025 // 10:36 min

Animation, Live Action

After their parents' separation, mother and daughter sit together in the removal van. At first, the journey goes smoothly, but then they have to drive through a storm – both in terms of the weather and their mixed emotions.

Gioia

Gioia

Gioia

Nixon Singa // France // 2024 // 20:00 min

Live Action

Gioia tries to fit in at school as much as possible, but in the afternoons she devotes herself to her passion: Afro dance. In doing so, she navigates between safe spaces and cultural appropriation and increasingly finds a truer sense of self.

Shadows

Shadows

Shadows

Rand Beiruty // France, Jordan // 2024 // 12:20 min

Animation, Documentary

At a crowded airport, Ahlam, a 14-year old mother, is running away from Baghdad, the only place she's ever known. As she fights the shadows lurking around her, she reflects on her journey to reclaim her life.

Acrobats

Acrobats

Shali Reddy / Alexandre Marzin / Antonin Guerci / Anna Despinoy / Hugo Danet / Eloïse Alluyn // France // 2024 // 07:35 min

Animation

A girl has dinner with her conservative family and tries to fit in. But suddenly, little acrobatic creatures bubble out of her mouth; there is no denying something so brightly colourful.

S The Wolf

S The Wolf

S The Wolf

Sameh Alaa // France // 2025 // 10:24 min

Animation

A hilarious reflection on life's stages and letting go, as told through too much hair and a lack thereof. Hairstyles can be utterly personal, and yet they are often imposed upon us by external factors: whether by society, our parents or by our own bodies.