Mankell Schlingensief and the jury.

The jury chairman Tilda Swinton gets cross-disciplinary skills: mystery author Henning Mankell and theater director Christoph Schlingensief, are at the Berlinale with her on the best films decide. Even a Californian star chef sits in the jury.

 

Berlin - That the best-selling author and creator of the detective, Wallander, Henning Mankell, the Berlin Film Festival with the Golden and Silver Bears will take a vote, is a popular and effective certainly competent decision, a big surprise but it is not: Even in the past years sat in the Berlinale jury also always personalities outside the movie business. Mankell is also the pay in his adopted home of Mozambique as a successful theater director.

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Director Schlingensief: By Henning Mankell and Tilda Swinton in the jury Berlnale

But that the film, theater and opera director Christoph Schlingensief in February to be there, so probably few have expected:
Schlingensief is difficult to develop lung disease. Lack of expertise the director ( "The German Chain Saw Massacre") of course not.

Other jury members, the Berlinale leadership on Tuesday announced that the Spanish director Isabel Coixet ( "Elegy"), the director Gaston Kaboré from Burkina Faso and the United States from the filmmaker Wayne Wang ( "Smoke").

In addition, the California star chef Alice Waters in the jury sitting. The nutrition activist had her restaurant in Berkeley, California, Chez Panisse, "a film by Marcel Pagnol character named, said in the statement of the Berlinale line. Waters was already with various film festivals, and also worked on the documentary "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe" agenda.

The 59th Berlin International Film Festival of 5 found to 15 February.
A total of 26 films in competition, including the German production of "All Others" by Maren Ade, and the comedy "Rage" with Jude Law and Judy Dench.

Hollywood star Kate Winslet is the adaptation of the bestseller novel "The readers" by Bernhard Schlink present. The film runs out of competition in Berlin. Opening film at the Berlinale is the world premiere of "The International" by director Tom Tykwer.