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Trio head for Berlin Generations

Trio head for Berlin Generations

By Patrick Frater

Thu, 15 December 2011, 17:12 PM (HKT)

Festival News

The upcoming Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale, 9-19 Feb 2012) has selected three films from Asia among the first dozen titles in its children's and youth programmes, Generation KPlus and Generation14Plus.

They are Kamila ANDINI's The Mirror Never Lies Laut bercermin (2011) from Indonesia, Rommel "Milo" TOLENTINO's slum drama Nono (2011) from the Philippines and LEE Han 이한 | 李翰's coming-of-age drama Punch 완득이 (2011) from South Korea.

All three films previously appeared in the Busan International Film Festival 부산국제영화제 in October and will have their European premieres in Berlin. Both Mirror and Nono are their directors' first features.

Punch has been a surprise hit in South Korea with more than five million admissions. Mirror (pictured), which opened in Indonesia in May, has also screened at festivals in Vancouver, Mumbai, Tokyo and Manila in recent months.

The full selection for the two sections will be announced in mid-Jan 2012.

Related Reviews

  1. The Mirror Never Lies | Laut bercermin
    Beautifully shot, low-key drama of a fishing community seen through a young girl's eyes.
  2. Punch | 완득이
    Offbeat treatment of formulaic elements makes this troubled-teen movie very likeable.

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