In postwar Germany, Nobel laureate Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika navigate a broken nation, a fractured family, and ghosts of the past. Competition.
Tag "Competition"
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‘Fatherland’ Cannes Review: Sandra Hüller Anchors a Chilling Portrait of Postwar Devastation
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‘Parallel Tales’ Cannes Review: Farhadi’s Overwrought Meta-Drama Collapses Under Its Own Design
A writer, a telescope, and imagined betrayals collide as Farhadi stretches a clever premise into a sprawling, exhausting meditation on fiction, truth, and illusion. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira and Vincent Cassel. Competition.
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‘Nagi Notes’ Cannes Review: Koji Fukada Finds Intimacy and Upheaval in a Town Far From Tokyo
In a quiet town seven hours from Tokyo, two women, two teenagers, and one father navigate unspoken desires in the days before spring. Competition.
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‘A Woman’s Life’ Cannes Review: The Discreet Anxiety of the Bourgeoisie
A successful doctor’s controlled world begins to fray as work pressures, family crises, and an unexpected connection reveal the emotional cost of keeping everything in place. In Competition.
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‘Bitter Christmas’ Review: Almodóvar Turns the Camera on Himself and Everyone Around Him
A filmmaker drifts between memory and invention, as stories echo and fracture, revealing the uneasy space where personal experience becomes shared fiction. Starring Bárbara Lennie and Leonardo Sbaraglia.
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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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Berlinale 2026: crítica de «Home Stories» («Etwas ganz Besonderes»), de Eva Trobisch (Competición)
La oportunidad de una adolescente de participar en un reality musical obliga a su familia, silenciosamente fracturada, a inventar una historia sobre sí misma, sea cierta o no.
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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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‘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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‘Dao’ Berlinale Review: Mapping Identity Through Two Ceremonies
A mother and daughter reconnect with their shared roots across a funeral in Guinea-Bissau and a wedding in France, in a hybrid film that blurs the boundaries between ritual, performance, and lived experience.
