Lebanese Director Uses Berlinale Stage to Speak Out on Gaza and Lebanon Conflict
February 25, 2026
“NO CHILD SHOULD NEED SUPERPOWERS TO SURVIVE A GENOCIDE.”
Lebanese filmmaker Marie-Rose Osta delivers a searing message: children are not collateral. Their lives are not bargaining chips. And they are not “negotiable.”
As bombs fall on Gaza and tensions escalate in Lebanon, she calls out what she describes as the normalization of violence against civilians especially children.
No child should have to be brave enough to survive war.
No child should need resilience as a survival skill.
No child should grow up under drones instead of daylight.
It’s about humanity. Are you even human if you’re not speaking out.
@middleeasteye
#MarieRoseOsta #Gazagenocide #Lebanon #fyp #HumanRights
English Script:
Marie-Rose Osta: I made a film about a child with superpowers. Who brings down two Israeli fighter jets because their intrusive sounds wake him up from his sleep. That is cinema. But in reality, children in Gaza, in all of Palestine and in my Lebanon do not have superpowers to protect them from Israeli bombs. That fall on your screens for a movie for more than two years now. Four children were killed in Lebanon just yesterday. The ceasefire continues to be violated by Israel, both in Gaza and Lebanon. No child should need superpowers to survive a genocide empowered by veto powers and the collapse of international law. If this award means anything at all except that it’s going to make me a very happy person, let it mean that Lebanese and Palestinian children are not negotiable. Thank you.
