German director Tom Tykwer will head the jury at this winter’s Berlin International Film Festival.
Festival organisers announced that they have chosen the German director of A Hologram for the King, Cloud Atlas and Run Lola Run, among other films, to be jury president at the event’s 68th edition in February.
The Berlin event is the first of the year’s major European film festivals. It will run from February 15-25. Tykwer said that he and the festival “have a fantastic and broad history with each other.”
Other members of the jury that will award the top Golden Bear prize and other awards weren’t immediately announced, and there are no details yet of the festival program.
Dutch director Paul Verhoeven led the jurors at the 2017 festival.