Berlin International Film Festival
Year President Profession Nationality
1956 Marcel Carné Director France
1957 Jay Carmody Film Critic United States
1958 Frank Capra Director United States
1959 Robert Aldrich Director United States
1960 Harold Lloyd Actor United States
1961 James Quinn Film Administrator United Kingdom
1962 King Vidor Director United States
1963 Wendy Toye Dancer United Kingdom
1964 Anthony Mann Director , Actor United States
1965 John Gillett Film Critic United Kingdom
1966 Pierre Braunberger Film Producer France
1967 Thorold Dickinson Director United Kingdom
1968 Luis García Berlanga Director Spain
1969 Johannes Schaaf Director Germany
1970 George Stevens Director United States
1971 Bjørn Rasmussen Poet Denmark
1972 Eleanor Perry Screenwriter United States
1973 David Robinson Film Critic United Kingdom
1974 Rodolfo Kuhn Director Argentina
1975 Sylvia Syms Actress United Kingdom
Main competition jury presidents
Since 1956 , the jury of the Festival has been chaired by an internationally recognized personality of cinema . [ 38 ]
The Berlin International Film Festival (German: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale, is a film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the Big Three alongside the Venice Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. Since 2019, Mariette Rissenbeek serves as the executive director of the festival, while Carlo Chatrian is the artistic director. With around 300,000 tickets sold and 500,000 admissions each year, it has the largest public attendance of any annual film festival. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections across cinematic genres. Around twenty films compete for the festival's top awards, called the Golden Bear and several Silver Bears. The European Film Market (EFM), a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents. The Berlinale Talents, a week-long series of lectures and workshops, is a gathering of young filmmakers held in partnership with the festival. The film festival, EFM, and other satellite events are attended by around 20,000 professionals from over 130 countries. More than 4200 journalists produce media coverage in over 110 countries. At some high-profile feature film premieres held during the festival, movie stars and celebrities are present on the red carpet.