Once again, a multitalented international jury will decide who will take home the Golden and Silver Bears from the Berlinale. At the upcoming 74th edition (15-25 February), 20 films selected for the Competition (see the news) will be in the running for the awards. The winners will be announced at the Berlinale Palast on 24 February. Alongside actor, director, producer and writer Lupita Nyong’o, who will head the jury (see the news), the other professionals who will be deciding on the prizes are Spanish director Albert Serra (fresh off the success of his latest film, Pacifiction [+lire aussi :
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As for the Encounters section, whose programme this year features 15 films, a three-member jury will choose the winners of Best Film, Best Director and the Special Jury Award. The jury is made up of Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso (whose latest film, Eureka [+lire aussi :
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German director and screenwriter Ilker Çatak (now nominated for the Oscar and for the LUX Audience Award for his latest The Teachers' Lounge [+lire aussi :
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The GWFF Best First Feature Award, given to one outstanding debut film from across all of the Berlinale sections, will see 16 directorial feature-film debuts from the Competition, Encounters, Panorama, Forum and Generation strands duking it out in an effort to clinch it. A three-person jury will decide on the outcome: US director-screenwriter Eliza Hittman (Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for Never Rarely Sometimes Always [+lire aussi :
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The Berlinale Documentary Award will be granted to one of the 20 docs from the Competition, Berlinale Special, Encounters, Panorama, Forum and Generation sections. A three-member jury will pick the winner: Iraqi-French director Abbas Fahdel, German helmer Thomas Heise and French director Véréna Paravel.

Lastly, in the Generation section, the members comprising the international jury as well as the children’s and youth jury, who award Glass Bears and cash prizes, have now been selected. Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, German-Iranian actress Banafshe Hourmazdi and US filmmaker Ira Sachs have been recruited for the international jury.