Accepting the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 76th Berlinale, filmmaker Marie-Rose Osta delivered a speech that blended pride, grief and defiance.
“I stand here divided in two,” she said, torn between the joy of recognition and the pain of witnessing children suffer.
Her film Yawman ma Walad (Someday A Child) imagines a child with superpowers bringing down Israeli jets that disturb his sleep; a cinematic fantasy, she explained, “But in reality, children in Gazza, in all of Palestine and my Lebanon do not have superpowers to protect them from Israeli bombs.”
Osta’s message was unflinching: “No child should need superpowers to survive a genocide empowered by veto powers and the collapse of international law.”
