Berlinale Forum Expanded und Berlinale Shorts: Mua besoj më shpëtoj portreti und Prekid vatre

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Berlinale Generation: Autokar and Los Lobos  

Autokar

In the 1990s, eight-year-old Agata leaves her Polish homeland for Belgium. Agata’s perception transforms the migrant experience into a rite of passage. 

Los Lobos  

They dream of Disneyland, but after brothers Max and Leo emigrate from Mexico to the USA, they first have to find their footing in their new home. And they must follow the seven rules their mother has imposed on them. 

December 18, 2025, 10.00 am (schools and other groups) and at 6.30 pm (general public)

Autokar 
Director: Sylwia Skiładź  
Belgium / France 2025  
Language: Polish / French with German narration*  
18‘ 
Recommended for ages 9 and up 

Los Lobos  
Director: Samuel Kishi Leopo  
Mexico 2019  

Language: Spanish / English / Cantonese with German narration* 
95‘ 
Recommended for ages 9 and up 

*The films will be shown in their original language and live voiced in German by a speaker. 

Director Samuel Kishin Leopo and director Sylwia Skiładź will be present at the screening. 

Berlinale Forum Expanded and Berlinale Shorts: Mua besoj më shpëtoj portreti and Prekid vatre  

Mua besoj më shpëtoj portreti (I believe the portrait saved me) 

25 years after his abduction during the Kosovo War, artist Skender Muja recalls a pivotal moment. In a prison camp, he drew the portrait of a Serbian commander — and in doing so, saved his own life. 

Prekid vatre (Ceasefire) 

Hazira survived Srebrenica. She witnessed the war that has consumed her life. For 29 years, she has endured life in a refugee camp within her own country, working tirelessly and restlessly to make ends meet and keep the trauma at bay. 

December 21, 2025, 6.00 pm  
Mua besoj më shpëtoj portreti

Director: Alban Muja  
Kosovo / Netherlands 2025  
Language: Albanian with English subtitles  
10’ 

Prekid vatre  
Director: Jakob Krese  
Germany / Italy / Slovenia 2025  
Language: Bosnian with English subtitles  
30‘ 

The screening will be followed by a moderated film discussion with Alban Muja and Annika Mayer (producer and editor of Prekid vatre). 
Moderator: Borjana Gaković (film and media scholar). 

The Berlinale Spotlight: Competition, Panorama, Generation, Berlinale Shorts and Forum Expanded is a cooperation between the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation and the European Film Market (EFM) of the Berlin International Film Festival.  

Admission to all events is free. Tickets must be booked in advance. through the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation. 

Venue:  
Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation 
Stresemannstraße 90  
10963 Berlin  
S-Bahnhof Anhalter Bahnhof / Close to Potsdamer Platz