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Nightborn

Posted by Max Borg | Feb 14, 2026 | Berlin 2026, Festivals |

Hanna Bergholm delivers thrills in the midst of Finnish nature in her confident second feature film ‘Nightborn’, screened in Berlin’s Competition.

The lineup of Berlin 2026 boasts some major US titles, but are they really what the festival needs?

This year’s Rotterdam took a free-wheeling approach to genre pieces, particularly global horror.

Artistic frustrations are the throughline in the Lebanese omnibus film ‘Home Bitter Home’, set in present day Beirut.

Social satire meets (literal) toilet humor in the gruesomely entertaining Brazilian horror comedy ‘Bowels of Hell’.