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New jurors join International jury announced earlier this month.

Nine new jurors have been announced for next month’s online Berlin International Film Festival (March 1-5), with three each for the Encounters, Generation and Shorts sections.

The new jurors are in addition to the six-person International Jury that was revealed at the beginning of February, composed of six former Golden Bear winning directors.

The Encounters jury consists of French programmer Florence Almozini, who works as senior programmer at large for New York’s Film at Lincoln Center venue; Cecilia Barrionuevo, artistic director of Argentina’s Mar del Plata International Film...

The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled the juries for its 2021 festival sidebars, the films screening outside the main competition at the 71st Berlinale.

German actress Jella Haase (Berlin Alexanderplatz), Dutch director Mees Peijnenburg (Paradise Drifters), and German writer-director Melanie Waelde (Naked Animals) will judge the movies running in this year’s Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus sections focused on children and youth films.

The three-member Encounters Jury, which will choose the winners of the sidebar section focusing on “new and diverse voices” in cinema, is made up of French festival programer Florence Almozini, currently of New York’s ...

The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled the juries for its 2021 festival sidebars, the films screening outside the main competition at the 71st Berlinale.

German actress Jella Haase (Berlin Alexanderplatz), Dutch director Mees Peijnenburg (Paradise Drifters), and German writer-director Melanie Waelde (Naked Animals) will judge the movies running in this year’s Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus sections focused on children and youth films.

The three-member Encounters Jury, which will choose the winners of the sidebar section focusing on “new and diverse voices” in cinema, is made up of French festival programer Florence Almozini, currently of New York’s ...

Tejera’s film follows a fisherman who returns to his native Panama.

Panamanian director Ana Elena Tejera has tried to express her conflicted identity through her debut feature Panquiaco, a Bright Future Competition title screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam.

On one hand, she is proud of her country, saying “I want to work in Panama only.” However, she is also aware that, to the indigenous communities who are the focus of Panquiaco, she is an outsider.

“This is something difficult for me: we’re there for eight weeks, then it changes. You’re in people’s lives, then you...

Peijnenburg’s first feature debuts at Iffr before going to Berlin.

There has been a growing interest in Dutch director Mees Peijnenburg’s debut feature ever since his Netherlands Film Academy graduation short Even Cowboys Get To Cry appeared in the 2014 Berlinale.

He followed that with another Berlinale entry, A Hole In My Heart which received the prestigious Dutch Directors’ Guild award for the film in 2016.

His 2015 television drama We Will Never Be Royals, inspired by the Lorde song and about a teenage brother and sister in care, won a Golden Calf, his country’s equivalent to the Oscars.

“When...