Berlinale 2025

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Was Marielle weiss (German production)
After being punched in the face following a fight with her best friend, Marielle has theleptic abilities and can see and hear everything her parents do in everyday life. When she tells her parents about it, they don't want to believe her, but the teenager knows an astonishing amount of details.
An interesting change of perspective, as it is now almost considered normal to observe your children, no matter where they are. Technology makes it possible. Here, however, the parents suddenly become the ones being watched by their own daughter and this poses a number of challenges both in their free time and in their private lives.
A fairly easy-going movie with some quirky dialogues but also serious themes that make the film highly recommendable as a whole.

Maya, donne-moi un titre (Maya, Give Me a Title) / Winner of the Crystal Bear from the Kids Jury
A father creates stop motion films for his daughter from cut-out paper and makes friends with this technique at the beginning of the film.
The daughter provides the film titles and so, depending on the age of the daughter, very different short films are created. Most of the film is shown in animation, with short sequences showing the daughter presenting her latest film titles.

Strichka chasu | Timestamp
This film is a documentary about different school days in the Ukraine.
Children of all ages grow up with the omnipresent war as if it had never been otherwise. Lessons are repeatedly interrupted by sirens and then continued in basements, if at all possible. Some schools have lost large parts of their buildings, other schools no longer exist at all. But school life goes on...


The Berlinale is over since a week and my final result are 11 Screenings.

Overall, what I got to see this year was rather mixed. The film “Paternal Leave” remains a cinematic highlight for me and I also liked the German production “Was Marielle weiss” (What Mariell knew) and the best Berlinale moment was meeting Naila Schuberth live and getting a photo signed by her.