The 72nd edition of the Berlin Film Festival will run between February 10 to 16.
Algerian-Brazilian film director Karim Ainouz, Tunisian-French producer Said Ben Said and Algerian-Tunisian screenwriter Anne Zohra Berrached have joined the international jury of the Berlin Film Festival.
Lebanese sound designer and filmmaker Rana Eid has also been announced as a member of the jury for this year’s Berlinale Documentary Award.
Eid will serve alongside documentary filmmaker Wang Bing and cinematographer Susanne Schule.
As a filmmaker, she directed her first feature documentary Panoptic (2017) which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2020, she was among a pool of Arab talent invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Ainouz is an award-winning director and screenwriter. He is known for his productions Invisible Life, Madame Sata and Mariner Of The Mountains.
Said is famous for his 2016 thriller Elle, his 2019 drama Bacurau and most recently his 2021 films Good Mother and Tralala.
Berrached’s debut short was Der Pausenclown (The Class Clown) in 2009. With around 10 productions under her belt, the director and writer has made a name for herself in the film industry. In 2018, she was appointed to the international jury of the 53rd Chicago Film Festival.
They will join international filmmakers including M. Night Shyamalan, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Hamaguchi Ryusuke, and actor Connie Nielsen who will all decide the Golden and Silver Bear winners.
