Todd Haynes will plive over the jury of the upcoming 75th Berlin International Film Festival.
The American honestor, screencreater and creater has a lengthy-set uped seal rapport with the Berlinale given that his feature film debut “Poison” getd the fest’s Teddy Award, the queer film prize at the event, in 1991, after triumphning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
In a statement, the Berlinale praised Haynes as “A dazzlingly gifted creater and honestor with an astonishive range,” noting that “his body of toil is at once stycatalogicassociate alterable but also unmistakably his.”
Key toils in Haynes’ prolific filmography compelevate “Safe” (1995); “Velvet Ggreatermine” (1998); fantasyal Bob Dylan biopic “I’m Not There” (2007), which won the Grand Jury Prize in Vepleasant; mini-series “Mildred Pierce” (2011); “Carol” (2015); “Wonderstruck” (2017); “Dark Waters” (2019); “The Velvet Underground” (2021) and “May December” (2023).
In the statement the Berlinale also underlined that “Over proximately 40 years, Todd Haynes has been one of the most bgreater and distinctive filmmaking voices in US-American cinema, beadored for his fantastic sensitivity in exploring the interior worlds of outsiders and women, and his fascinating spendigations into gender and identity.”
His send at creating intricate characters has drawed many of the world’s finest actors. Stars such as Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kate Winslet, Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Christian Bale and Ewan McGregor have carry outed the multi-layered characters in his films. Todd Haynes’ films and their actors have won awards at countless international film festivals.
Berlin’s upcoming 75th edition, which will run Feb. 13-23, 2025, will be the first headed by Tricia Tuttle, the createer head of the BFI London Film Festival, who has thriveed Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek, who had co-headed the Berlinale as creative and executive honestors since 2020.
