Fernanda Tovar’s Sad Girlz is a touching tale of female friendship under the shadow of sexual violence — the winner of Berlinale Generation 14Plus.
Sad Girlz Does It Well
Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
The Beautifully Barmy Unidentified Nonflying Objects (UNO)
Unidentified Nonflying Objects is another freewheeling and deeply weird animated gem from the mind of Russian animator Sasha Svirsky.
Journey Into Berlinale 2026
Mini-takes on films seen at the Berlinale, from almost every section, letting you know what to keep an eye on — and what to avoid!
A Few Small Beers
Hong Sangsoo’s latest film, The Day She Returns, is even more minimalist than usual, using just a handful of scenes to create a spare poem of differences.
Shot Reverse Shot. Jewish Life at the End of the Ceaușescu Regime.
Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă’s latest documentary Shot Reverse Shot continues their vital archival work of the Jewish Romanian experience.
A Russian Winter’s Lost Generation
Patric Chiha’s A Russian Winter is a minor work, but a nonetheless rewarding one: capturing exiled Russian youth in a tragic holding pattern.
I Want To See You Truly Naked
Muriel d’Ansembourg’s taboo-breaking drama explores the way pornography can change who we are, in often finger-wagging ways.
Lust Confidently Finds Its Way Through the Darkness
Ralitza Petrova’s lust is a tale of sex addiction and childhood trauma that, despite its grimness from scene to scene, exerts a curiously optimistic pull.
Don’t Send In The Clowns. They’re Already Here.
A clown’s life is turned upside down when her husband and two kids die in the emotionally resonant Four Minus Three, playing in Panorama.
Prosecution Handsomely Builds Its Case
Faraz Shariat’s Prosecution carefully examines justice both within and without the complex, biased machinery of the German state.