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.
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‘Un hiver russe’ Berlinale Review: Portrait of a Generation in Limbo
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‘The Weight’ Berlinale Review: Ethan Hawke Anchors a High-Tension 1930s Survival Tale
A convict in the 1930s Depression-era Oregon backcountry must smuggle a fortune in gold through a deadly wilderness to save his family. Starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe.
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‘Nina Roza’ Berlinale Review: Creativity Under Pressure
A Bulgarian-born art curator, living in Canada for thirty years, returns to his homeland to verify whether an eight-year-old artist is truly the author of her remarkable paintings. The journey—and the encounter—challenges everything he believes.
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‘At the Sea’ Berlinale Review: Amy Adams Dances Around Generational Trauma
After leaving alcohol rehab, a woman returns to her Cape Cod home and attempts to rebuild her fractured family while confronting the inherited trauma of her father—and an identity that threatens to pull her back under.
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‘Lust’ Berlinale Review: A Glacial Study of Control and Collapse
When Lilian is summoned back to her hometown to settle the death of an absent father, what should be a brief administrative detour unravels into unresolved debts, institutional inertia, and a decaying body caught in bureaucratic limbo.
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‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’ Review: Small-Town Secrets Never Stay Buried (Netflix)
After the sudden death of a long-estranged friend, three women return to their Northern Irish hometown for her funeral—only to suspect that the tragedy that ties them together may not be over yet.
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‘The River Train’ Berlinale Review: A Kid, a City, and the Ghost of Leonardo Favio
Milo dreams of escaping the pressures of family life of becoming a great Malambo dancer by setting out on his own toward the wonders of Buenos Aires.
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‘Light Pillar’ Berlinale Review: Melancholy in the Age of Simulation
In a near-future where China’s largest film studio is collapsing into obsolescence, a lonely caretaker escapes into a virtual reality world—only to find love, purpose, and a dangerous illusion that may cost him everything in both realities.
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‘The Scream Murder’ Review: When Horror Movies Spill Into Real Life
In 2006, in a small Idaho town, a teenage girl is found dead in a house, and the prime suspects are two classmates obsessed with horror films. On Hulu.
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‘Rose’ Berlinale Review: Identity, Survival and Patriarchy in a 17th-Century Village
In the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War, a woman settles in a remote village posing as a man—only to discover that power, belonging and even marriage may depend less on truth than on performance.



