➠➠ Berlinale2023

International Jury 2023

Kristen Stewart (USA) - Jury President
American actor, screenwriter and director Kristen Stewart is considered one of Hollywood’s major young talents. In 1999, at the age of nine, she celebrated her screen debut. Just three years later, she starred alongside Jodie Foster in David Fincher’s Panic Room and achieved wider public recognition. Her international breakthrough came with the five-part Twilight saga (2008–2012). In 2010, she attended the Berlinale with the independent production Welcome to the Rileys (directed by Jake Scott). That same year, she received the Orange Rising Star Award for Best Newcomer at the BAFTAs.
In 2014, she played alongside Juliette Binoche in Clouds of Sils Maria, directed by French auteur Olivier Assayas, and in 2015 she became the first American to receive the French film award César for her role in the film. She continued her work with Assayas in 2016 on Personal Shopper, in which she played the lead. The following year, she celebrated her directorial and screenwriting debut with the short film Come Swim and in 2018, she was a member of the International Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2019, she made a foray into the action genre in Charlie’s Angels (directed by Elizabeth Banks) and delivered a fascinating performance in the biopic Seberg (directed by Benedict Andrews) which celebrated its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. In 2020, she presented her next work as a director – the short film Crickets. Most recently, she wowed audiences as Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s film drama Spencer, garnering nominations for an Academy Award and at the Critics Choice Awards for Best Actress. She has just completed production on Love Me, opposite Steven Yeun and just wrapped production on Love Lies Bleeding, directed by Rose Glass.

Golshifteh Farahani (Iran / France)
Born in Iran in 1983, Golshifteh Farahani began her acting career as a teenager. When she was just 16, she won Best Actress at the Fajr International Film Festival for her role in The Pear Tree (1998) by Dariush Mehrjui. Later, she was in Bahman Ghobadi’s Half Moon (2006), and in Iran’s submission for the 2008 Academy Awards, M for Mother (2006). Her first appearance at the Berlinale was in 2009, starring in Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly, which won the Silver Bear for Best Director. Since 2009, the actor and musician has been based in Paris, working primarily in French and English language films. Her filmography includes Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies (2008) and Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), Chicken with Plums (2011) by Marjane Satrapi, Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson (2016), Arab Blues (2019) by Manele Labidi, and most recently, Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother and Sister (2022). In 2014, she was nominated for a César Award for her role in Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone (2012).

Valeska Grisebach (Federal Republic of Germany)
After first studying German and philosophy, Valeska Grisebach began her film studies in Vienna. For her graduation film Be My Star (2001), she not only received the First Steps Award and was nominated for the Grimme Prize, but also won the top prize at the Torino Film Festival as well as the FIPRESCI Prize in Toronto. Already her second feature film Longing was invited to the Competition of the Berlinale in 2006. The film subsequently won prizes at numerous international festivals, including Buenos Aires, Gijón and Warsaw. In 2017, her film Western celebrated its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes. She received the German Film Award in Bronze, the German Film Critics’ Prize as well as prizes in Tromsø, Ludwigshafen, Seville, Mar del Plata and Istanbul, among others. In addition, Grisebach, who also taught at the DFFB (German Film and Television Academy Berlin), has already served as a jury member at festivals such as Locarno and the Cinéfondation in Cannes.
Kristen Stewart has become one of the most eminent international actors, thrilling audiences and critics alike. She is currently working on her feature-length directorial debut, the film adaptation of the bestseller “The Chronology of Water” by Lidia Yuknavitch.

Radu Jude (Romania)
The Bucharest native Radu Jude, born in 1977, was already a popular guest at the Berlinale before receiving the Golden Bear in 2021 for the comedy Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn. His first fiction film The Happiest Girl in the World celebrated its world premiere in 2009 in Forum, where Everybody in Our Family (2012) and Uppercase Print (2020) also screened, as well as the documentary The Exit of the Trains (2020) - which he co-directed with Adrian Cioflâncă. His first film in Competition, Aferim! (2015) won the Silver Bear for Best Director. One year later, Radu Jude received the Jury Award in Locarno for Scarred Hearts, and in 2018, I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians won the Crystal Globe for Best Film in Karlovy Vary. Most recently, his short film The Potemkinists screened in 2022 at Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes.

Francine Maisler (USA)
Francine Maisler is one of the film industry’s most recognised and prolific casting directors. Already a ten-time recipient of the Artios Award of the Casting Society of America, Francine Maisler’s other distinctions include an Emmy, a Hollywood Film Award, two Independent Spirit Awards, and two BAFTA nominations. To date, she’s worked with directors such as Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, Steve McQueen, Denis Villeneuve, Nora Fingscheidt and Yorgos Lanthimos. Films she has cast have been screened frequently at the Berlinale, including Gus Van Sant’s Milk (2008) and Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot (2018), Knight of Cups (2015) by Terrence Malick, Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special (2016) and Vice (2018) by Adam McKay. Most recently, Francine Maisler worked on the films Dune (2021) by Denis Villeneuve, She Said (2022) by Maria Schrader and Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All (2022). Her upcoming films include Bong Joon-Ho’s Mickey 17, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part 2 and Joker: Folie à Deux by Todd Phillips.

Carla Simón (Spain)
Filmmaker Carla Simón’s career is closely connected to the Berlinale. In 2017, her autobiographical feature-length film debut Estiu 1993 celebrated its world premiere in the section Generation, and won both the Best First Feature Award as well as the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury. The film went on to win three Goyas and over 30 more awards at international festivals. It was also nominated for an European Film Award in the category Best First Feature, and selected as Spain’s submission for the Academy Awards. This past year, the director, who grew up in a Catalan village, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for her second film Alcarràs. In addition, the film was nominated for eleven Goyas and three European Film Awards. Already in 2019, Carla Simón won the Eurimage Co-Production Development Award for the project at the Berlinale Co-Production Market. Her most recent short film Letter to My Mother for my Son screened at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.

Johnnie To (Hong Kong, China)
The multi-award-winning director and producer Johnnie To began his career in television in Hong Kong before his breakthrough as a cinema director in the late 1980s with All About Ah-Long (1989), among others. To’s cross-genre oeuvre as a director includes over 50 films. From the 1980s to the 2000s, he gave the crime film genre a new form that still serves as a reference point for the younger generation of Asian filmmakers today. In 1996, he founded the production company Milkyway, for which he first directed the film A Hero Never Dies in 1998. With Election (2005) and Vengeance (2009) he took part in the Cannes Competition, and in 2008 he competed for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale with Sparrow, where his films were also frequently presented in Forum. To has also been a repeated guest in Venice or Toronto with e.g. Exiled (2006), Life Without Principle (2011) and Office (2015). Most recently, he produced Soi Cheang’s Ming On (Mad Fate), which will be shown in this year’s Berlinale Special.

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