“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
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.
