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Berlinale 2016: International Jury

With actress serving as Jury President (see press release from October 14, 2015), the International Jury will decide who will receive the and Silver Bears of the 2016 Berlinale Competition.

The other members of the International Jury will be actor Lars Eidinger (), film critic Nick James (), photographer Brigitte Lacombe (), actor (United Kingdom), actress 66. Internationale () and director Małgorzata Szumowska (). Filmfestspiele 11. – 21.02.2016 Meryl Streep, Jury President, USA Press Office

Meryl Streep has appeared in over 40 films and is considered one of the Potsdamer Straße 5 world’s most talented and versatile actresses. She has received countless 10785 Berlin awards and nominations, including three wins among her unprecedented 19 Oscar nominations. She was honoured with a Golden Globe eight times Phone +49 · 30 · 259 20 · 707 Fax +49 · 30 · 259 20 · 799 and nominated an additional 20 times. Meryl Streep’s international breakthrough came in the late with the TV series Holocaust and [email protected] ’s (1978, her first Oscar nomination), as www.berlinale.de well as the couples drama Kramer vs. Kramer (D: , 1979), for which she garnered her first Oscar statuette. She won further for her compelling performance in Sophie’s Choice (D: Alan J. Pakula, 1982) as well as her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (D: Phyllida Lloyd, 2011). Meryl Streep has been a guest at the

Berlin International Film Festival on a number of occasions. In 1999, she was awarded the Berlinale Camera and, in 2003, she shared the Silver Bear with and for their performances in The Hours (D: Stephen Daldry). In 2006, she could again be seen in the Ein Geschäftsbereich der Kulturveranstaltungen des Berlinale Competition in ’s ensemble comedy A Prairie Bundes in Berlin (KBB) GmbH Home Companion. The 2012 Berlinale Homage was dedicated to Meryl Streep and she was also awarded an for lifetime Management: achievement. Most recently, Meryl Streep excelled in films such as the Prof. Dieter Kosslick historical drama Suffragette (D: Sarah Gavron, 2015), Ricki and the Flash (Intendant Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), (D: , 2015) and the musical Into the Woods (D: Rob Charlotte Sieben Marshall, 2014). She will next be seen in Stephen Frear’s Florence Foster (Kaufmännische Geschäftsführung), Jenkins. As president of the Berlinale 2016 jury, Meryl Streep takes on Prof. Dr. Bernd M. Scherer, the role of a juror at a film festival for the first time in her longstanding Dr. Thomas Oberender career. Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrates: Staatsministerin Prof. Monika Grütters MdB

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Lars Eidinger, Germany

Lars Eidinger is one of Germany’s most accomplished actors. He alternates between stage, screen and television roles without difficulty. Since 1999, he has been a member of the ensemble at Berlin’s Schaubühne theatre, where he has also directed plays. His most outstanding performances on the stage include Thomas Ostermeier’s production of “Hamlet”, which Eidinger has played nationally and internationally over 250 times since 2008. His breakthrough on the screen was in Maren Ade’s Everyone Else, which won the Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear) at the Berlinale in 2009. He participated in the Berlinale Competition again in 2012 with Home for the Weekend (D: Hans-Christian Schmid), and in 2015 with Sworn Virgin (D: Laura Bispuri). In that same year he was also in the Panorama section with Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents (D: Stina Werenfels). Eidinger, who has received many prizes, such as the Grimme Award and the German Film Critics’ Award, has played in international cinema productions, including most recently the period drama Matilda (D: Alexey Uchitel). Now, after , he is working with again, as well as with Philipp Kadelbach in London, on the BBC series SS-GB starring Sam Riley.

Nick James, United Kingdom

Nick James is an internationally renowned film critic, author and programmer from the United Kingdom. In the late 1980s he began to write articles about film for “City Limits” magazine, where he soon became head of the film section. Since 1997 he is editor of the internationally celebrated film magazine “Sight & Sound”. His articles on film, art and literature have been published in, for instance, “”, “The Observer”, “”, “Vogue”, the “London Review of Books” and “The Literary Review”. In 2002 “Heat”, his book about ’s film of the same name, was published. In 2010 he received the title of Chevalier de L’ordre des arts et des lettres from the French Ministry of Culture. Since 2012 he has curated the “” film series, which is put on twice a year by the British Film Institute at BFI Southbank.

Brigitte Lacombe, France

Since the 1970s, French photographer Brigitte Lacombe, who lives in New York, has ranked among the world’s best-known and most successful artists in her field. Her photographs frequently appear in publications such as “Vanity Fair”, “Vogue”, “”, “Zeit Magazin”, “The Financial Times”, and “ Magazine”. In 1975, one of

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her first big assignments took her to the and ever since she has had very close links to the world of cinema. She works regularly as a special photographer visiting the film sets of directors such as , Alejandro González Iñárritu, , , David Mamet and . From 2009 to 2013, she was commissioned by the Doha Film Institute (DFI) to take portraits of over 350 international filmmakers and actors, mostly from the Middle East region. Lacombe, who has received many prizes, including the Art Directors Club’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Photography, has published two books to date: “Lacombe anima / persona” (Steidl-Dangin, 2008) and “Lacombe cinema / theatre” (Schirmer/Mosel, 2001).

Clive Owen, United Kingdom

In 1991, right at the start of his career, Berlinale audiences got to see Clive Owen in Stephen Poliakoff’s Close My Eyes, which screened in the Panorama section. With it the English actor began a long list of impressive performances in which he has succeeded in balancing small arthouse productions such as Croupier (D: Mike Hodges, 1998) or Shadow Dancer (D: James Marsh, Competition - out of competition 2012) with big mainstream hits such as Sin City (2005). He received the Golden Globe and a nomination for an Oscar for ’s Closer (2005), and worked with directors such as Robert Altman (Gosford Park, 2001), Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, 2006) and (Inside Man, 2006). Owen, who is currently playing the lead in Soderbergh’s TV series The Knick (since 2014), for which he has been Golden Globe nominated, starred in ’s political thriller The International (2008), which opened the Berlinale in 2009. This spring he will begin production on Luc Besson’s Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

Alba Rohrwacher, Italy

Alba Rohrwacher numbers amongst the most important actress of her generation. The daughter of a German father and Italian mother, she made her feature film debut with An Italian Romance (D: Carlo Mazzacurati) in 2004. Since then she has worked with numerous renowned Italian and international directors. She has already won the Italian film award twice (2007 and 2008). In 2009 she was celebrated as a European Shooting Star at the Berlinale and in Venice in 2014 she won the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress for her performance in Hungry Hearts (D: Saverio Costanzo). She had already made two Berlinale Special guest appearances, with What More Do I Want (D: Silvio Soldini, 2010) and Doris Dörrie's Bliss (2012), before she shone in the lead role in Laura Bispuri's 2015 Competition entry Sworn Virgin. Amongst her other

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successes are I Am Love (2009) by , Dormant Beauty by (2012) and Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders (2014).

Małgorzata Szumowska, Poland

Małgorzata Szumowska is among Poland’s most prominent filmmakers. She graduated in film directing from the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. She has won several international awards and her films have been presented at the most important film festivals worldwide. Her first two feature films, Happy Man (2000) and Stranger (2004) were both nominated by the for European Discovery of the Year. The next movie 33 Scenes from Life was awarded at the film festival in Locarno. Szumowska’s films have been seen frequently in Berlin. Stranger was shown in the Panorama section in 2005. In 2012, Elles starring opened the Panorama and went on to theatrical distribution in more than 40 countries. Her first film in Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival was In the Name of, which won the at the 63rd Berlinale. Małgorzata Szumowska was seen in Competition here most recently in 2015, with Body, for which she won the Silver Bear for Best Director. The film went on to garner the most awards of any Polish film in 2015.

The International Jury presents the following awards:

Golden Bear for Best Film (awarded to the film’s producer) Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize Silver Bear for a feature film that opens new perspectives Silver Bear for Best Director Silver Bear for Best Actress Silver Bear for Best Actor Silver Bear for Best Script Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution in the categories camera, editing, music, score, costume or set design

Press Office February 2, 2016

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