Competition Pink Panda II: Teens
Péter VáczHungary, 2025 | 20:00 min | 2DEleven-year-old Berci spends an afternoon alone with his dog, struggling with the emotions left behind after witnessing his parents' violent fight the day before. As his suppressed feelings surface, he releases his anger and aggression in tense and emotional interactions with his dog. These raw expressions eventually help Berci find relief and discover the quiet, transformative strength of forgiveness.
Marita MayerNorway, 2025 | 08:13 min | 2D“How can you think if you cannot speak?” Four kids, age 5 to 15, share their thoughts on aphasia and show us how they communicate and interact with someone, who has difficulties expressing themselves verbally.
Nikki Girod, Sylvia JordeGermany, 2025 | 05:50 min | 2D, 3DMaya is a young woman who moves to a new city and leaves her home and childhood behind. At the railway station, shortly before her departure, she looks back and remembers all the beautiful and difficult moments of her childhood.
Valeria CozzariniSlovenia, 2025 | 13:00 min | 2DJulka is a Slovenian-speaking eight-year-old girl who has two friends, Danilo and Marko, with whom she is inseparable. Their lives change drastically when the fascist regime bans the use of local and minority languages and begins a period of persecution and oppression. One day, a teacher hears Julka speaking Slovene in class, so he punishes her and uses violence to enforce his excessive nationalism.
Jayakrishnan Subramanian, Franziska SchönenbergerGermany, 2025 | 13:00 min | 2DMaya never feels alien in her family, yet questions about her 'white, German parents' and her complexion are getting under her skin. To process the pain, she writes a song for everyone to hear.
Tomek DuckiPoland, 2025 | 08:30 min | 2DBird droppings. To most, a nuisance. But for a remarkable flock of flightless birds, they are the foundation of life itself. There is a delicate harmony in their hidden world – until one day when a mysterious object washes up on shore. What begins as curiosity sparks a profound shift, leading the flock into a new era of cultural and technological change. Once happy with simplicity, the birds now face the price of progress.
