Berlin NewGen 2026: Competition Short Programme IV — Prägung: THE MARKS WE CARRY

​Welcome to Competition Short Programme IV of the Berlin NewGen Film Festival 2026!

​★ This screening is part of the NewGen Short Film Main Competition section. Audiences will have the opportunity to vote for the Audience Award following the screening. ★

​Prägung: THE MARKS WE CARRY

​(Run time: 88 mins | Sunday, Oct 25, 14:00 - 15:30)

​Some marks are visible, yet others settle into names, gestures, rooms, and family images. Desire, gender, family histories, and political events leave impressions that may be inherited, resisted, concealed, or transformed. Moving between bodies, homes, and private archives, these films ask how intimate lives bear histories larger than themselves—and how those histories persist, altered, in those who follow.

​Featured Shorts:

• ​ICE — Dir. Yelo, Gab Rosique

  • ​(Germany Premiere | 2025 | 20 mins | Philippines | Narrative)

• ​NURSING ROOM — Dir. YUAN Tianjing, WANG Sijia

  • ​(Germany Premiere | 2025 | 5 mins | China | Animation)

• ​BETRAYER — Dir. SHI Shengxue

  • ​(2025 | 11 mins | Japan / China | Animation)

• ​GHOST OF HOME — Dir. XIE Chen

  • ​(International Premiere | 2025 | 13 mins | China / United States | Experimental)

• ​MY GRANDMOTHER IS A SKYDIVER — Dir. Polina Piddubna

  • ​(2025 | 13 mins | Germany | Animation)

• ​SO HE GRABBED THE KNIFE — Dir. Sam KUWA

  • ​(2026 | 12 mins | Japan / China | Animation)

• ​UNTITLED HOMEVIDEO — Dir. Milan Daemgen

  • ​(World Premiere | 2026 | 14 mins | United States | Documentary)