Berlin: Chinese Star Fan Bingbing, ‘She Said’ Director Maria Schrader Join Competition Jury
Chinese star Fan Bingbing (I Am Not Madame Bovary, The 355) and German actor/director Maria Schrader (I’m Your Man, She Said) will join jury president Todd Haynes to judge the competition films at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale announced Thursday.
Berlin unveiled its international jury for the 2025 event, which runs Feb. 13-23, which will see the Far from Heaven and Carol director heading up the four-woman, three-man jury that will pick this year’s Gold and Silver Bear winners.
Alongside Fan and Schrader, the 2025 Berlinale jury includes Moroccan-French director Nabil Ayouch (Much Loved, Horses of God), German costume designer Bina Daigeler (TÁR, Mulan), Argentine director Rodrigo Moreno (The Delinquents), and American critic and podcast host Amy Nicholson.
Haynes has a long history with the Berlinale. His debut feature Poison won the Teddy Award, for LGBTQ+ cinema, at Berlin in 1991.
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The 75th Berlinale kicks off with the out-of-competition world premiere of Das Licht (The Light), the new drama from acclaimed German director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run, Cloud Atlas, Drei). Among this year’s competition titles are Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, starring Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley; Mexican director Michel Franco’s Dreams featuring Jessica Chastain; the French drama The Ice Tower from director Lucile Hadžihalilović, starring Marion Cotillard, Gaspar Noé, and August Diehl; What Does That Nature Say to You? from four-time Silver Bear winner Hong Sang-soo; and Hot Milk, the directoral debut of Polish screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida, Disobedience), starring Emma Mackey and Vicky Krieps.
Tilda Swinton, another Berlinale regular, who has screened a total of 26 films in Berlin over the years, will receive this year’s Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement.
