Berlinale Spotlight – Generation: „Autokar & Los Lobos“

In the organizer's words:

Film 1: Autokar
In the 1990s, eight-year-old Agata leaves her Polish homeland for Belgium - a journey that frightens her. On the bus, she begins to write a letter to her father, who has remained in Poland. When her pencil falls and rolls away, Agata is forced to overcome her shyness. In search of the pencil, she weaves her way between the rows of seats, immersing herself in a fantastic world inhabited by strange passengers - half human, half animal. Agata's perception transforms migrant reality into an initiatory experience.

Film 2: Los Lobos
"You are strong wolves. Wolves don't cry. Wolves bite. They howl. And they protect their home." They don't have much, eight-year-old Max and his little brother Leo, but they have each other, they have their mother Lucía. And they have a shared dream: to go to Disneyland. The family recently emigrated from Mexico to the USA, and while Lucía tries to create a financial basis for their new start with various jobs, the two brothers spend long days in their sparse one-room apartment. The new four walls, which they are not allowed to leave, become a projection screen for imaginative adventures and open up a view of their new life. In Los Lobos, director Samuel Kishi Leopo draws on his own childhood experiences and places them in a highly topical context - unsparing and poetic, melancholy and full of hope.

PROGRAMME

Welcome

Dr. Gundula Bavendamm, Director of the Documentation Centre Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation

Sebastian Markt, Head of Generation Section, Berlinale

Film screenings
Film 1
Autokar
By: Sylwia Skiładź (director, screenplay)
Country: Belgium / France 2025
Language: Polish / French with English subtitles
Duration: 18 minutes
Recommended from 9 years

Movie 2
Los Lobos
By: Samuel Kishi Leopo (director, screenplay), Sofía Gómez Córdova (screenplay), Luis Briones (screenplay)
Country: Mexico 2019
Language: Spanish / English / Cantonese with English subtitles
Duration: 95 minutes
Recommended from 9 years

Film talk

Samuel Kishi Leopo, director Los Lobos

Sylwia Skiładź, director Autokar

Moderation: Sebastian Markt, Head of the Generation section, Berlinale

Language: English

FURTHER INFORMATION

Admission time: 18.00 hrs

Language: English

FREE ADMISSION

WITH REGISTRATION

The Berlinale Spotlight - Berlinale Generation is a cooperation between the Documentation Center Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation and the European Film Market (EFM) of the Berlinale.