Markus Schleinzer’s Rose is way out in front on the 2026 Berlin jury grid as Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn and Karim Aïnouz’s Rosebush Pruning disappoint.
Black-and-white drama Rose received an average of 3.3 from the critics. Scores included five four-stars (excellent) and two three-stars (good) while Ahmed Shawky (Filfan.com, Egypt) and Anton Dolin (Meduza) gave it two-stars (average).
Sandra Hüller stars in this 17th-century drama, set in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War, as 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.
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At the other end, Nightborn, Rosebush Pruning and Anke Blonde’s Dust failed to impress the critics, all scoring below a 2.0 average.
The lowest of which, Nightborn, is currently at the bottom of the grid with 1.3 after receiving six one-stars (poor) and a zero-star (bad) while Dolin and Screen’s own critic were impressed – both scoring it three stars. The dark thriller follows a Finnish woman and her British husband as they move to an isolated house deep in the forest to have their first child — only for the mother to realise immediately that something is wrong with the boy.
Elsewhere, Emin Alper’s Salvation and Alain Gomis’s Dao scored a 2.4 and 2.6 average, respectively.
Dao is currently joint second (with Yellow Letters) on the grid. The story centres on a family navigating its heritage through moments of joy and sorrow, namely a wedding celebration in Paris and a commemorative ceremony in Guinea-Bissau.
It is Gomin’s third film to play in Competition, following 2012’s Today (2.1) and 2017’s grand jury prize winner Felicite (2.7).
The next films on the grid will be Anthony Chen’s We Are All Strangers; Kornel Mundruczo’s At The Sea and Genevieve Dulude-de Celles’s The Apprentice.
The jury grid will be updating live on screendaily.com.
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