Berlinale
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If Pigeons Turned to Gold
ADDICTION: In this intimate Czech debut, addiction is neither moral failure nor spectacle, but a disease that reshapes family, memory, and love.
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Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party
A survivor of attempted femicide returns to the people around her past, asking what they saw, what they missed, and what silence still protects.
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Around Paradise
CONTROL: Conspiracy culture, settler ideology, and capitalist exploitation converge inside a gated Paraguayan enclave.
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Traces
UKRAINE: Winner of the Panorama Audience Award at this year's Berlinale, Traces, details the powerful story of women seeking to survive and thrive after being raped and tortured by Russian forces during the war in Ukraine.
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Collapse
ISRAEL: Using Berlinale’s political crisis as its point of departure, Collapse emerges as an act of moral clarity, documenting not only devastation itself but also the society and ideology producing it.
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The Other Side of the Sun
SYRIA: Survivors walk back into the cells that shattered their lives, recounting brutality inside one of Syria’s most feared prisons.
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Tristan Forever
ESCAPE: A piano on a cargo ship opens Tristan Forever, a film about Tristan da Cunha and a doctor’s longing for distance, belonging, and a simpler life.
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Last Letters From My Grandma
IDENTITY: From Moldova to the southern Urals to Spain, Last Letters from My Grandma links family loss to larger political fractures, asking what peace costs and who pays.
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The Long Road to the Director’s Chair
GENDER: Restored 1973 footage from Berlin’s Women’s Film Seminar amplifies women’s voices on authorship abortion rights and power still urgent in today’s media.