Fan Bingbing, Nabil Ayouch & Amy Nicholson Join Todd Haynes In Berlinale Competition Jury

The Berlinale has unveiled the jury for its main Competition as well as those for the sidebars of its 75th edition running February 13 to 23.

Director Nabil Ayouch (Morocco/France), costume designer Bina Daigeler (Germany), actor Fan Bingbing (China), director Rodrigo Moreno (Argentina), film critic and author Amy Nicholson (U.S.) and director, actor and screenwriter Maria Schrader (Germany) join previously announced president Todd Haynes in the main competition jury.

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They will decide the Golden Bear for Best Film (awarded to the film’s producers) as well as the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, Silver Bear Jury Prize and Silver Bears for Best Director, Best Leading Performance, Best Supporting Performance, Best Screenplay and Best Outstanding Artistic Contribution.

The three-member jury of the inaugural Perspective Competition, showcasing 14 first features by emerging directors, has been named as director Meryam Joobeur (Tunisia/Canada), actor-director Aïssa Maïga (France/Mali) and producer María Zamora (Spain).

They will award the €50,000 Best First Feature Award to be split between the producer and director of the winning film.

The International Short Film Jury consists of programmer and short film expert Jing Haase (Denmark), film composer Dascha Dauenhauer (Germany) and director Phạm Ngọc Lân (Vietnam).

The Berlinale Documentary Award Jury comprises Petra Costa (Brazil), Lea Glob (Denmark) and Kazuhiro Soda (Japan). They will decide the €40,000 Berlinale Documentary Award, with 16 titles across the Competition, Berlinale Special, Panorama, Forum and Generation sidebars nominated for the prize.

The Generation International Jury and the Children’s and Youth Jury is made up of Emma Branderhorst (Netherlands), Ikoro Sekai (Canada) and Aslı Özarslan (Germany).

They will decide the the Grand Prix for the Best Film and the Special Prize for the Best Short Film, for the sidebars separate child-focused Kplus and youth-focused 14plus strands. The section also features separate children’s and youth juries made up of local participants.

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