Markus Schleinzer’s Rose starring Sandra Hüller has topped Screen’s 2026 Berlin jury grid, while final entries Yo (Love Is A Rebellious Bird) and Josephine also impressed the critics.
Rose scored an average of 3.3 from the critics including five four-stars (excellent). Hüller won the Silver Bear for leading performance at the Berlinale awards ceremony on Saturday (February 21). Set in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War, the 17th-century drama follows an enigmatic soldier who returns to a secluded German village and claims to be the heir of a long-abandoned farmstead, all the while pretending to be a man.
In bottom place was Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn with 1.3. The horror had scored one zero (bad) and six one-stars (poor). Ilker Catak’s Yellow Letters, which was awarded the Golden Bear by the Berlin jury, fell in the middle of the grid with 2.6.
The final entries on the grid included Beth de Araujo’s Josephine, which received a 2.8 rating. The US drama, and double Sundance award-winner, received two four-stars, three three-stars (good) and four two-stars (average).
Yo (Love Is A Rebellious Bird) by Anna Fitch and Banker White scored an average of 2.6, with the documentary receiving a mixture of three- and two-stars. The film won the Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution.
Elsewhere, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Soumsoum, The Night Of The Stars and Yoshitoshi Shinomiya’s A New Dawn failed to crack a 2.0 average, both scoring 1.9; and Eva Trobisch’s Home Stories received a middling 2.2.
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