More jurors have been added to the International Jury of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival (also known as the Berlinale). Newest members, Chinese megastar Fan Bingbing and German actor-director Maria Schrader, will judge the event taking place February 13 – 23, 2025. The competition is part of the Big 5 film festivals along with Cannes, Venice, Toronto and Sundance.

The choices for the jury are consistent with the festival’s promise to be diverse, independent and daring. Writer-director Todd Haynes, jury president, won the Teddy Award for LGBTQ+ cinema at Berlin in 1991. The Oscar-nominee has been at the forefront of boundary pushing cinema for films such as Carol, Far From Heaven, and May December. 

Bingbing and Schrader have vast experience as well. Schrader’s body of work includes directing She Said, a bold film following the investigation that led to the exposure of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct. Her film I’m Your Man was nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear in 2021.

Recipient of the Cinema Icon Award at the 2023 Singapore Film Festival, Bingbing has starred in Green Night, The 355 and I Am Not Madame Bovary. She was also named as one of Time’s Top 100 Most Influential People in 2017.

Along with Haynes, Bingbing, and Shrader, jury members include: Nabil Ayouch (Morocco), Bina Daigeler (Germany), Rodrigo Moreno (Argentina), and Amy Nicholson (USA).