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Berlinale #1: "Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die" and more...
Saturday, February 14, 2026 at 4:44PM by Elisa Giudici
NO GOOD MEN © Adomeit Film
I'm on the ground here at Berlinale with a report on the first four films screened including a film from Afghanistan, Slovakia standing in for Wisconsin, a drama about the Turkish diaspora in Germany, and Gore Verbinski's new sci-fi comedy Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die.
No Good Men
The Berlinale has not opened with something this emotionally persuasive in years. With No Good Men, Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat delivers a film that appears modest in scale and technique yet proves unexpectedly buoyant. Its visual language is spare, at times almost elementary, but the lightness is deliberate. In a story about gender inequality in Kabul, hope becomes a quietly subversive choice...