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. His first film in Competition, Aferim! (2015) won the Silver Bear for Best Director. 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. 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. 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. 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 2017, her film Western celebrated its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes. ![]() ![]() The film subsequently won prizes at numerous international festivals, including Buenos Aires, Gijón and Warsaw. Already her second feature film Longing was invited to the Competition of the Berlinale in 2006. 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. In 2014, she was nominated for a César Award for her role in Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone (2012).Īfter first studying German and philosophy, Valeska Grisebach began her film studies in Vienna. 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). Since 2009, the actor and musician has been based in Paris, working primarily in French and English language films. Her first appearance at the Berlinale was in 2009, starring in Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly, which won the Silver Bear for Best Director. Later, she was in Bahman Ghobadi’s Half Moon (2006), and in Iran’s submission for the 2008 Academy Awards, M for Mother (2006). 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. Kristen Stewart directed two short films, Come Swim (2017) and Crickets (2020), and is currently working on her feature-length directorial debut, the adaptation of the bestseller “The Chronology of Water” by Lidia Yuknavitch.īorn in Iran in 1983, Golshifteh Farahani began her acting career as a teenager. She has recently completed production on Love Me, opposite Steven Yeun and Love Lies Bleeding by Rose Glass. She was most recently seen in David Cronenbergs Crimes of the Future which premiered at Cannes in 2022. Her portrayal of Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer garnered her nominations for an Academy Award and Critics Choice Award for Best Actress in 2022. In 2019, she starred in Charlie’s Angels by Elizabeth Banks and delivered a powerful performance in the biopic Seberg by Benedict Andrews. She continued her work with Assayas in 2016 on Personal Shopper and starred in Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women in the same year. For her role in Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria, she won multiple critic awards and became the first American to receive the French film award César. In 2010, she attended the Berlinale with Welcome to the Rileys by Jake Scott. ![]() Her international breakthrough came with the five-part Twilight saga (2008–2012). 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. The other members of the jury are actor Golshifteh Farahani (Iran/France), director and writer Valeska Grisebach (Germany), director and screenwriter Radu Jude (Romania), casting director and producer Francine Maisler (USA), director and screenwriter Carla Simón (Spain) and director and producer Johnnie To (Hong Kong, China).Īmerican actor, screenwriter and director Kristen Stewart is considered one of Hollywood’s major talents. The winners will be announced at the Berlinale Palast on February 25.Īctor Kristen Stewart will head the jury (see press release from December 9, 2022). 19 films are competing for the awards in this year’s Competition. Once again a multitalented International Jury will decide who will take home the Golden and the Silver Bears at the Berlinale 2023.
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