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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‘Lust’ Berlinale Review: A Glacial Study of Control and Collapse
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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.
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‘The Ballad of Judas Priest’ Berlinale Review: How Leather, Guitars, and Pure Attitude Shaped Heavy Metal
A fearless chronicle of Judas Priest’s rise—from Birmingham’s industrial streets to global metal icons—celebrating their music, their image, and the fans who swear by them.
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‘Rosebush Pruning’ Berlinale Review: Ultra-Wealthy and Utterly Unhinged
A dysfunctional billionaire family implodes from within when an outsider disrupts their warped routines in this pitch-black satire of privilege, cruelty, and mutual destruction.
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‘If I Were Alive’ Berlinale Review: Close Encounters in Minas Gerais
A couple who meet in adolescence grow old together and face health issues in this Brazilian film that blends observational realism with science fiction.
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‘WAX & GOLD’ Berlinale Review: Ruth Beckermann Tracks Power and Its Echoes in Contemporary Ethiopia
A stay at Addis Ababa’s Hilton becomes the starting point for Ruth Beckermann’s layered exploration of Ethiopia’s imperial past, fractured present, and the hidden meanings that connect them.


