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BERLINALE 2026 Competition

Eva Trobisch • Director of Home Stories

"I wanted to ask whether who we are and what our identity is can really be so narrow and definite"

by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: We sat down with the German director to talk about identity, visibility, and the fragile construction of what we call home

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With Home Stories [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Eva Trobisch
film profile
]
, screening in Competition at the Berlinale, Eva Trobisch brings us into a small East German town. At the audition for the singing contest The Voice of Germany, sixteen-year-old Lea is asked a simple question: who are you and what makes you special? What follows is not a clear answer, but fragments, family tensions, unspoken disappointments, generational wounds, as the film navigates confidently through a kaleidoscope of characters and themes. We sat down with the director to talk about identity, visibility, and the fragile construction of what we call home.

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