Before studying dramatic arts at the University of Hildesheim, Faraz Shariat worked as a director and actor at Schauspiel Köln and on video installations for Staatstheater Hannover. His work focuses on post-migrant experiences and stories about immigrant families. His debut feature film, FUTUR DREI, premieres in Panorama at this year’s Berlinale. The film has been developed in collaboration with Paulina Lorenz and Raquel Molt of the Jünglinge film collective.

Paulina Lorenz studied film, music and visual culture at the University of Hildesheim and Brown University, Providence and is currently doing an M.A. in migration studies in Copenhagen. She is interested in queer-feminist and postcolonial views on film and media culture and has worked for the German Migration Media Service and BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival. With Jünglinge she develops and produces fictional and documentary projects for cinema and TV.

Lei Yuan Bin is a founding member of film collective 13 Little Pictures. He directed, shot and edited WHITE DAYS, 03-FLATS, the short film A DANCE FOR REN HANG and I DREAM OF SINGAPORE (Berlinale Panorama 2020). He co-directed FUNDAMENTALLY HAPPY with Tan Bee Thiam. A Berlinale Talents alumnus (2016), he was the director of photography for Daniel Hui’s DEMONS, along with Liao Jiekaiʼs RED DRAGONFLIES and AS YOU WERE.

Daniel Hui is a filmmaker, artist and a graduate of the film programme at California Institute of the Arts. He has made three feature-length films: ECLIPSES (Pixel Bunker Award for International New Talent, Doclisboa IFF 2013), SNAKESKIN (Special Jury Award TFFDoc, Torino 2014; Award of Excellence, Yamagata IDFF 2015; Special Jury Mention, RIDM Montreal 2015), and DEMONS (in Competition, Kim Jiseok Award, Busan IFF 2018; Berlinale Forum 2019).

Liao Jiekai is a filmmaker based in Singapore/Japan and a founding member of the film collective 13 Little Pictures. His debut film RED DRAGONFLIES (2010) won the Special Jury Prize at the Jeonju International Film Festival. His sophomore film AS YOU WERE (2014) competed at film festivals in Tokyo, Torino and Nantes. He attended Berlinale Talents in 2012 and is currently in post-production on his third feature film LIGHT OF A BURNING MOTH (2020).

Tan Bee Thiam directed the short film KOPI JULIA and co-directed the film adaptation FUNDAMENTALLY HAPPY with Lei Yuan Bin. He is currently in post-production with his debut feature TIONG BAHRU SOCIAL CLUB. He produced Lei Yuan Bin’s WHITE DAYS and 03-FLATS, Liao Jiekai’s RED DRAGONFLIES and AS YOU WERE, as well as Daniel Hui’s SNAKESKIN and DEMONS (Berlinale Forum 2019). He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents (2015), Rotterdam Lab and EAVE.

Sebastian Markt has been head of the Generation section since September 2022. He studied history in Vienna and Berlin and has spent time working in arthouse cinemas. He joined the Generation team in 2013 and has been jointly responsible for coordinating the section’s programme since the 2015 festival, most recently as head of programming for the Generation feature-length film selection. As a curator and festival programmer, Sebastian is also actively involved in the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg and junges dokfest in Kassel. In addition, he has been a film critic since 2012 for publications including Sissy, Perlentaucher and Die Zeit. He is a founding member of the Hauptverband Cinephilie (cinephilia association) where he works chiefly in cultural film education.

Raquel Molt grew up in Berlin-Kreuzberg with an Indian/Nepalese/German family background. She studied in Hildesheim with a focus on film, queer-feminist theory and popular culture. Since 2016, she has been part of the film collective Jünglinge Film and worked as a casting director, assistant director and on the production of the feature film FUTUR DREI. In her work as a casting director, she deals with questions of representation and power dynamics within production contexts.