A teenage singer’s shot at reality TV fame forces her quietly fractured family to invent a story about themselves—whether it’s true or not.
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‘Home Stories’ Berlinale Review: The Limits of a Ready-Made Narrative
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‘Roya’ Berlinale Review: Prison, Trauma, and Survival in Contemporary Iran
An Iranian woman emerges from solitary confinement physically free but psychologically fractured, struggling to reconnect with a world marked by violence and repression.
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’17’ Berlinale Review: A Brutal Portrait of Adolescence
A teenage girl goes on a school trip while carrying an important secret she can’t share with anyone—until a situation of sexual abuse blows everything wide open. Part of the Perspectives competition.
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‘My Wife Cries’ Berlinale Review: The Strange Geometry of Intimacy
After a woman confesses that her lover died in an accident they suffered while planning a future together, a factory worker is thrust into emotional shock—setting off a chain of intimate revelations among friends and partners that expose the fragile, often unknowable distances at the heart of modern relationships.
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‘Queen at Sea’ Berlinale Review: Love in the Time of Dementia
In this British family drama, a complicated sexual situation of an elderly couple leads to a problem in which social services intervene.
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‘Where To?’ Berlinale Review: A Palestinian Driver and an Israeli Passenger Share the Ride
A Palestinian taxi driver roaming Berlin’s nights begins to pick up a young Israeli passenger again and again, gradually realizing they have far more in common than either might expect.
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‘Narciso’ Berlinale Review: Rock, Repression and Desire in Dictatorship-Era Paraguay (Panorama)
Set under Alfredo Stroessner’s dictatorship, this Paraguayan drama follows a young rock-and-roll fanatic whose success as a radio DJ leads him into trouble.
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‘Truly Naked’ Berlinale Review: A Coming-of-Age Story Inside the Adult Film World
A teenager who works for his father, a porn star, filming his movies, goes into crisis when he starts seeing a girl who doesn’t approve of what they do.
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‘Wolfram’ Berlinale Review: Searching for Freedom in a Stolen Land
In 1930s outback Australia, two Indigenous siblings flee the white masters who’ve enslaved them in a remote mining town, crossing the desert in search of home, freedom, and the truth about their family as violence closes in behind them.
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‘Un hiver russe’ Berlinale Review: Portrait of a Generation in Limbo
Following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many Russians were forced into exile because they refused to submit to the regime. Shaken by history and unwelcome everywhere, they search for their place in the world.



