Exclusive Clip: Disappearing Behind the Scenes in Marcelo Martinessi’s ‘Narciso’ – 2026 Berlinale

After competing for the Golden Bear back in 2018 with The Heiress (read review), Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi returns to the Berlinale with the birth of authoritarianism and how one artist was snuffed out during the brutal dictatorship circa 1959. Narciso (originally titled “Who Killed Narciso?) is a meditation on how desire, fear, and collective faith intertwine to produce authoritarian power—exploring repression not only as a political system, but as an intimate condition embedded in bodies, institutions, and inherited memory. As per our exclusive clip below, there is no greater threat to conformity than what the sounds of rock & roll brought along. Here we find Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (Mister Wesson) and Diro Romero in the titular lead role.