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

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TS 07 Teenage Riot! 16+

The first intense love relationship, exploring one's own desires and the strong urge to capture this moment, right now. Between partying, filming, addiction, accidents and allegiances, the protagonists of these personal and sensitive short films forge their way through their youth. While it’s not always easy, it’s certainly never dull.

Themes: Coming of age, identity, creativity, filmmaking, change, love, relationships, separation, loss, responsibility, guilt, family structures, community, forgiveness, reconciliation, friendship, skating, fashion, addiction, drug consumption, pregnancy, life decisions

School subjects: Art, Ethics, German

06.11.25, 18:00h, ACUDkino

09.11.25, 18:30h, Unterfilm Clubkino

Teenage Riot! ab 16
5 films
Let's leave it untitled

Let's leave it untitled

Let's leave it untitled

Mieszko Chomka // Poland // 2025 // 15:00 min

Documentary

A playfully questioning video diary that the filmmaker uses to hold on to things that are happening and changing but also to capture the exact moment of soul-searching coming of age before a new phase begins. How to make a film, what is creativity, where will I study, will we still be together? Friends, the city at night, the summer house with the girlfriend, partying, rapping and consulting parents.

Because of (U)

Because of (U)

Because of (U)

Tohé Commaret // France // 2025 // 12:49 min

Experimental, Live Action

Laura endures her narcissistic boyfriend’s rants with silent anger. She feels abandoned by the world and searches for something to hold onto between the dreary blocks of flats – while the music plays elsewhere.

[Content Note: Abuse]

Tage der Nacht

Tage der Nacht

Days of Night

Adrian von der Borch // Germany // 2024 // 23:10 min

Live Action

Eighteen-year-old Luna lives on the streets with her boyfriend Marius. They both are addicts and are prepared to do a lot to get their fix. But when Luna realizes that she is pregnant, it is not only their relationship that is at stake. 

[Content Note: Addiction]

Arame Farpado

Arame Farpado

Barbed Wire

Gustavo de Carvalho // Brazil // 2024 // 21:49 min

Live Action

In Brazil’s rural countryside, two sisters and their new  stepfather are forced to spend an evening in the emergency room of a hospital, facing complex encounters with strangers— while they struggle with their own family dynamics.

[Content Note: Blood]

Murewa

Murewa

Ché Scott-Heron Newton // United Kingdom // 2025 // 14:52 min

Documentary

Years of home video, reflecting on the complexities of growing up and how opportunity and circumstance shape our futures in ways we don’t always fully grasp at the time. Intimate and deeply personal, the film explores boyhood, friendship, belonging and the lingering question of what might have been.