After witnessing a disturbing act of sexual violence, an eight-year-old girl struggles to process what she saw as her family prepares her for the trial that could change everything.
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‘Josephine’ Berlinale Review: A Sudden End to Innocence
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‘The Swedish Connection’ Review: How a Civil Servant Took on the Holocaust (Netflix)
An unassuming Swedish bureaucrat discovers that exploiting obscure citizenship laws may be the only way to issue protective passports to Jews trapped in Nazi-occupied Europe — and quietly begins a rescue operation his own government would rather ignore.
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‘The Loneliest Man in Town’ Berlinale Review: Empty Building Blues
An aging Austrian bluesman, now the last tenant in his building, stubbornly resists the developers trying to force him out—finding unlikely allies along the way.
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‘Strangers in the Park’ Review: A Sentimental and Nostalgic Two-Hander on Aging and Memory (Netflix)
Two elderly men forge an unlikely bond on a Buenos Aires park bench in a nostalgic, gently comic chamber piece that often slips into unapologetic schmaltz. Starring Luis Brandoni and Eduardo Blanco. A Netflix Release.
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‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: Amanda Seyfried Leads a Devotional, Dance-Driven Portrait of Faith and Utopia
This formally ambitious religious biopic turns the founding of the Shaker movement into a hypnotic musical experience of faith, trauma, and communal utopia. Starring Amanda Seyfried.
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‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ Berlinale Review: Analog Crime in a Digital City
An aging Bronx pickpocket steals more than he bargained for—and finds himself hunted for a digital secret he can’t even access. Starring John Turturro, Steve Buscemi and Giancarlo Esposito.
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‘Flies’ Berlinale Review: An Unexpected Roommate
A solitary woman who rents out a room near a hospital reluctantly takes in a young boy searching for news of his sick mother, forming an unexpected bond over a few difficult days.
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‘Home Stories’ Berlinale Review: The Limits of a Ready-Made Narrative
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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‘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.


