BERLIN, Feb 15 — Oscar nominee Cillian Murphy will open Berlin’s international film festival today with the world premiere of a drama about Ireland’s notorious laundries used as prison camps for fallen young women.

Small Things Like These, based on the bestselling novel by Claire Keegan and co-starring Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones) and Emily Watson (Chernobyl), is one of 20 pictures vying for the festival’s Golden Bear top prize.