The poster for "Someday, A Child" in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. (Photo: Berlinale 2026)
The only Lebanese film selected for competition in the official lineup of the 76th Berlin International Film Festival, "Someday, A Child" by Marie-Rose Osta stands out as one of the most distinctive offerings in the Berlinale Shorts section this year.Written, directed, and produced — including editing and casting — by the 38-year-old filmmaker, this 27-minute short film (which received funding from AFAC) paints the portrait of a child with extraordinary powers, in what resembles a contemporary fable revisiting the myth of David and Goliath.A film whose hero is an 11-year-old boy living with his uncle in a Lebanese village regularly flown over by Israeli fighter jets. Gifted with extraordinary abilities, the child endures his guardian’s anger, as the latter is determined to repress his difference. But the punishments meant to...
The only Lebanese film selected for competition in the official lineup of the 76th Berlin International Film Festival, "Someday, A Child" by Marie-Rose Osta stands out as one of the most distinctive offerings in the Berlinale Shorts section this year.Written, directed, and produced — including editing and casting — by the 38-year-old filmmaker, this 27-minute short film (which received funding from AFAC) paints the portrait of a child with extraordinary powers, in what resembles a contemporary fable revisiting the myth of David and Goliath.A film whose hero is an 11-year-old boy living with his uncle in a Lebanese village regularly flown over by Israeli fighter jets. Gifted with extraordinary abilities, the child endures his guardian’s anger, as the latter is determined to repress his difference. But the punishments meant...
