The 2025 Berlinale edition will have Moroccan-French director Nabil Ayouch, Tunisian-Canadian filmmaker Meryam Joobeur, and Malian-French director Aïssa Maïga as jury members.
Ayouch, director of 2024’s Everybody Loves Touda, will join the main competition international jury alongside Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, German costume designer Bina Daigeler, and Argentinian director Rodrigo Moreno. The jury will be led by American filmmaker Todd Haynes. They will decide the Golden Bear for Best Film, as well as several Silver Bear awards.
Joobeur and Maïga will join the three-member jury of Perspectives, a new section dedicated to showcasing first features by emerging directors. The winner will receive €50,000.
The festival, set to take place from February 13 to 23, will be showcasing an exciting lineup of films, including Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s Ancestral Visions of the Future.
Mosese’s film joins a host of other African films at the Berlinale including Khartoum, Akher Youm (The Last Day), Ne réveillez pas l’enfant qui dort (Don’t Wake the Sleeping Child), Mikuba (Cobalt), Daye: Seret Ahl El Daye (The Tale of Daye’s Family), Minimals in a Titanic World, and Al mosta’mera (The Settlement).
The Berlin Film Festival’s new artistic director, Tricia Tuttle, when announcing the lineup expressed her commitment to broadening the festival’s appeal while maintaining its political roots.
She said: “We cannot and we do not shy away from [politics]. It’s arguably in the DNA of the city and the festival itself. But it’s fair to say that the Berlinale is many things and for all festivals and all culture right now, the news agenda can often dominate the discourse.”
Tricia Tuttle, an American film journalist and curator, took over the artistic director’s role from Carlo Chatrian.
