The Prizes of the International Jury
The members of the 2025 International Jury, Todd Haynes (President), Nabil Ayouch, Fan Bingbing, Bina Daigeler, Rodrigo Moreno, Amy Nicholson, and Maria Schrader, award the following prizes:
Golden Bear for Best Film (awarded to the film’s producers)
Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love))
by Dag Johan Haugerud
Produced by: Yngve Sæther, Hege Hauff Hvattum
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
O último azul (The Blue Trail)
by Gabriel Mascaro
Silver Bear Jury Prize
El mensaje (The Message)
by Iván Fund
Silver Bear for Best Director
Huo Meng
Sheng xi zhi di (Living the Land)
Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance
Rose Byrne in:
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
by Mary Bronstein
Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance
Andrew Scott in:
Blue Moon
by Richard Linklater
Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
Radu Jude
Kontinental ’25
by Radu Jude
Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution
For the creative ensemble of:
La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower)
by Lucile Hadžihalilović
International Jury 2025
Todd Haynes (USA) - Jury President
Over nearly 40 years, Todd Haynes has been one of the most bold and distinctive filmmaking voices in US-American cinema, beloved for his great sensitivity in exploring the interior worlds of outsiders and women, and his fascinating investigations into gender and identity. His skill at creating complex characters has attracted many of the world’s finest actors. Stars such as Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kate Winslet, Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Christian Bale and Ewan McGregor have played the multi-layered characters in his films. Todd Haynes' films and their actors have won awards at numerous international film festivals. Emerging into international prominence in the early 1990s as part of a thrilling new generation of US-American directors (dubbed “New Queer Cinema” by critic B. Ruby Rich), by the time of his four-time Oscar nominated film, Far from Heaven (2002), Haynes was fully established as a major force in US filmmaking. His feature film debut Poison received the TEDDY AWARD, the queer film prize at the Berlinale, in 1991, and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Other key works include Safe (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), the fictional Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There (2007), which won the Grand Jury Prize in Venice, the mini-series Mildred Pierce (2011), Carol (2015), Wonderstruck (2017), Dark Waters (2019), The Velvet Underground (2021) and May December (2023).
Nabil Ayouch (Morocco / France)
Nabil Ayouch, member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is a director, screenwriter, and producer. His first film, Mektoub (1997), was an audience favourite in the Berlinale Forum. His films often highlight marginalised individuals, as seen in Ali Zaoua (2000, Berlinale Generation 14plus), Horses of God (2012, Cannes - Un Certain Regard), and Much Loved (2015, Cannes - Director's Fortnight). In 2021, he entered the Cannes competition with Casablanca Beats, a first for Morocco. In 2022, Nabil Ayouch produced The Blue Caftan, directed by Maryam Touzani, which received over 60 awards and became the biggest success ever recorded for a Moroccan film worldwide. In 2024, his film Everybody Loves Touda was part of the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, and represented Morocco at the Oscars.
Fan Bingbing (People’s Republic of China)
After starting out in television, Fan Bingbing, born in Qingdao, has been one of the most successful actors in Chinese cinema for more than 20 years. For her leading role in the film I Am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang, 2016), she was honoured at the Golden Rooster Awards, the Asian Film Awards and the San Sebastian Film Festival. She also starred in Li Yu's Lost in Beijing, which was part of the Berlinale Competition in 2007. Four years later, Sacrifice (Chen Kaige, 2011) screened in Berlinale Special, while My Way (Je-gyu Kang, 2012) and Green Night (Han Shuai, 2023) were presented in Panorama. Fan Bingbing's other films include Cellphone (Feng Xiaogang, 2003), Buddha Mountain (Li Yu, 2011) and Mother Bhumi (Chong Keat Aun, 2024), as well as international productions such as X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer, 2014), The 355 (Simon Kinberg, 2022) alongside Jessica Chastain and The Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky (Jonathan Hensleigh, post-production) with Liam Neeson.
Bina Daigeler (Germany)
Bina Daigeler is an Academy Award nominated costume designer, who became one of the international film industry’s most celebrated artists. Her feature film design work can be seen most recently in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door (2024), Todd Field's TÁR (2022), where she received a Costume Designers Guild Award (CDGA) nomination, and the Disney live action movie Mulan (2020), directed by Niki Caro. With Mulan, Daigeler was nominated for her first Academy Award and won the CDGA for “Excellence in Fantasy Costume”. In television, Daigeler designed the costumes for FX's Mrs. America (2020), where she was nominated for an Emmy in “Outstanding Period Costumes”, as well as a CDGA. Mrs. America also reunited her with Cate Blanchett, with whom she had collaborated on the visual art piece Manifesto (2015), directed by Julian Rosefeldt, which was a major success in the art world and awarded Daigeler with the German Film Award for Best Costume Design. Having started her career in German cinema in the mid-80s, Daigeler was drawn to the creative explosion in Spain and has worked since then in multiple Spanish productions and received five Goya nominations.
Rodrigo Moreno (Argentina)
Rodrigo Moreno is one of the key figures in new Argentinian cinema. His award-winning and critically acclaimed film The Delinquents, which celebrated its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard series at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023, also screened at the film festivals in Toronto, San Sebastián, New York, London, Chicago and Busan, among others, and landed in the annual top ten of “The Guardian”, “Cahiers du cinéma” and “Le Monde”. His debut film El Custodio, a funding project of the World Cinema Fund, received a prize at Sundance, then screened successfully in the Berlinale Competition in 2006, winning one of the major awards for innovative filmmaking. Five years later, he returned to the Berlinale Competition with A Mysterious World. He also directed and produced Reimon (2014) and the documentary Provincial City (2017). Moreno teaches Directing at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and has been a member of the board of the renowned annual magazine “Revista de Cine” since 2012, where he also publishes texts on cinema.
Amy Nicholson (USA)
Amy Nicholson is the film critic for the “Los Angeles Times” and host of the podcast “Unspooled”. She is a regular on the LAist and KCRW radio programmes and a member of both the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics. Previously, she was the chief film critic for MTV News and “LA Weekly”, and a contributor to the “New York Times”, “Washington Post”, “Variety”, “Rolling Stone” and “The Guardian”, among others. She also created the podcast mini-series “Zoom”, “The Canon”, “Quentin Tarantino Presents” and “Halloween Unmasked”. Nicholson has been a juror at Sundance and SXSW and a member of FIPRESCI juries at film festivals such as Moscow and Cairo. Her first book “Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor” was published by “Cahiers du cinéma”; her second, “Extra Girls”, will be published by Simon & Schuster.
Maria Schrader (Germany)
German director, actor and screenwriter Maria Schrader returns to the International Jury for a second time. In 1999, she was honoured with the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Aimée & Jaguar, a film which opened the Berlinale and was nominated for a Golden Globe. She has won the German Film Award for Best Actress three times. As a director, she celebrated great success with Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016), which received the Audience Award at the European Film Awards, and the series Unorthodox (2020), for which Schrader was the first German director to win an Emmy. Her film I’m You’re Man celebrated its world premiere in Competition at the 2021 Berlinale and was awarded a Silver Bear and four German Film Awards afterwards. Her most recent feature film, She Said with Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan was honoured as best film of the year by the American Film Institute and the New York Film Critics Online in 2022.