A scene from the documentary “Fuocoammare” (“Fire at Sea”), which took the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. It focuses on an Italian island that has evolved into a way station for desperate refugees. image by Berlinale.

If Germans are questioning their identity, then so are the migrants. At the Maxim Gorki Theater here, known for being in the vanguard, a play called “The Situation” has been selling out the house. The play is a lively mix of the personal and political. The cast includes five newcomers to Berlin — a Syrian, two Palestinians, an Israeli Arab and an Israeli — and is set in an introductory German class, where the question “Who are you?” prompts a series of often comic semiautobiographical monologues......Continue Reading

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