few weeks before the launching of the 70th Berlinale, The artistic director of the Berlinale, Carlo Chatrian, explained:
“I value Jeremy Irons as a person as well as an artist and am proud to welcome him as jury president for the 70th edition of the Berlinale”.
The Berlinale praised Oscar winner Irons as one of the most important character actors in the international film and theatre world.
And here is the fulllist of Juries members :
The International Jury
The members of the International Jury, which is headed by Jury President Jeremy Irons have been appointed: Actress Bérénice Bejo (Argentina / France), producer Bettina Brokemper (Germany), director Annemarie Jacir (Palestine), plawright and director Kenneth Lonergan (USA), actor Luca Marinelli (Italy) and film critic, director and programmer Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil). More about the International Jury
The Encounters Jury
As of 2020, the new competitive section Encounters will give more room to diverse narrative and documentary forms in the official programme. A three-member jury will choose the winners for Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award: Dominga Sotomayor (Chile), Eva Trobisch (Germany), Shôzô Ichiyama (Japan). More about the Encounters Jury here.
The International Short Film Jury
The Berlinale Shorts International Jury consists of three filmmakers and artists – animation filmmaker Réka Bucsi (Hungary), curator Fatma Çolakoğlu (Turkey) and filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
(Lesotho). At home in multiple artistic and cultural fields, they each bring with them their own perspective on the way they view and evaluate the competing films. More about the International Short Film Jury here.
The Generation Juries
Two International Juries will award the Grand Prix for the Best Film in the Generation competitions Kplus and 14plus respectively:
Abbas Amini (Iran), Jenna Bass (South Africa) and Rima Das (India) form the Generation 14plus International Jury this year and will honour the Best Film and the Best Short Film from among the 28 Generation 14plus competition entries.
In the Kplus competition, Marine Atlan (France), María Novaro (Mexico) and Erik Schmitt (Germany) will decide upon the Best Film and Best Short Film from among 31 entries. More about the Generation Juries here.
Berlinale Documentary Award Jury
In total, 21 documentary forms from the sections Competition, Berlinale Special, Encounters, Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino have been nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award, which is sponsored by rbb for the first time in 2020. A three-member jury will pick the winner: Gerd Kroske (Germany), Marie Losier (France / USA), Alanis Obomsawin (Canada). More about the Documentary Award Jury here.
Jury GWFF Best First Feature Award
Since 2006, the GWFF Best First Feature Award has been given to one outstanding debut film across the Berlinale sections.
This year, 21 directorial feature film debuts from the sections Encounters, Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino are nominated.
A three-person jury will decide on the award: Ognjen Glavonić (Serbia), Hala Lotfy (Egypt) and Gonzalo de Pedro Amatria (Spain). More about the GWFF Jury here.
