
"The movies I want to act in have to feel very true, like a good observation of humanity"
BERLINALE 2026: We caught up with the German actor to talk about starting young, growing up in the countryside outside Berlin, and shaping his craft through repeated work with Christian Petzold
“17 shows how female bodies are violated physically and emotionally”
BERLINALE 2026: The emerging filmmaker talks about creating a film that directly interrogates the frightening casual nature of sexual violence by drawing directly from accounts of teenage life
“The austerity and inhumanity of these spaces needed to be reflected in the film’s imagery”
BERLINALE 2026: The German director talks about his research into the German legal system and its blind spots, and his film's aesthetical approach and main character
"When everything’s standardised, what matters are voices, music that’s different and dissonant"
BERLINALE 2026: The French-Chadian director discusses the genesis of his new film which interweaves legends and realism in the syncretic spirit typical of everyday life in that region