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The International Short Film Jury awarded the Golden Bear for Best Short Film to „Someday a Child“
(Yawman ma walad) by Marie-Rose Osta.
The jury statement presented by Ameer Fakher Eldin:
„Together with my fellow jurors, we watched 21 films from all over the world, and it was a rare privilege. Thank you, Anna, and the entire team of Berlinale Shorts, for this beautiful and courageous selection. Each film has carried us into its own fragile world, its own necessity, and each remained with us in a different way.
Among these works, one film spoke to us with a particular quiet force.
Wars disturb the very fabric of our existence. They alter the rhythm of time and they burden space with fear and settle into memory, like dust that cannot be brushed away. And we, adults, learn to endure, to calculate and to survive. But children live in another dimension. Children do not calculate. They perceive. And within that perception rests a force no violence can erase.
The director of this film places a child with supernatural power at the heart of her work to reveal the intensity of an uncorrupted consciousness. A gaze that still believes the world can answer it. A silence that gathers the invisible movements of wind, of objects, and of fate itself. In such a gaze, reality feels unsealed and the boundary between inner and outer dissolves.
With remarkable restraint, the director gave this vision a form, trusting stillness, light, and texture to become the inner landscape of her character.
For this poetic and contemplative language of cinema, the Golden Bear for Best Short Film goes to Someday A Child by Marie-Rose Osta.“
Find the full speech here: Berlinale Award Ceremony | Berlinale 2026 (from 1:56h)
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