Meet the 2021 Berlinale jury

His film "There Is No Evil" won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2020, but Mohammad Rasoulof could not pick up the award himself. The Iranian director has been banned from traveling abroad and has also been sentenced to prison in his home country. Rasoulof will therefore take part in the festival via a remote video link from Iran.

The other five directors will watch and discuss the films together in Berlin. Nadav Lapid is an Israeli filmmaker who won the Golden Bear in 2019 with his third feature film, "Synonyms," a semi-autobiographical drama about an Israeli expatriate in Paris who is wrestling with his identity. Lapid has already been a juror for international film festivals in the past, including Locarno and Cannes.

Adina Pintilie's film "Touch Me Not" — an experimental exploration of sexuality and intimacy combining fiction and documentary — divided critics at the Berlinale in 2018, but nevertheless convinced the jury. The Golden Bear-winning Romanian filmmaker is also an experienced film curator, as she is the co-founder of the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival.

After winning the Golden Bear in 2017, the Hungarian director's eighth feature film, "On Body and Soul," went on to be nominated for a Foreign Language Academy Award. Ildiko Enyedi was already on the Berlinale jury once, in 1992, and has served as a juror for many other international film festivals since.

After winning the Golden Bear in 2016, Rosi's documentary "Fire as Sea," about the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean undertaken by migrants to reach Europe, was nominated for an Oscar. Three years previously, the Italian-American director also picked up Venice's Golden Lion, making him the only documentary filmmaker to have won two of the three major European film festivals' highest awards.

The Bosnian film director won the Golden Bear in 2006 with "Grbavica," a film which deals with the impact of systematic rapes of Bosnian women by Serbian soldiers during the Bosnian War. Her latest film from 2020, "Quo Vadis, Aida?" has now been shortlisted for the Oscars as best foreign film. For the first time this year, the Berlinale's six-member jury will not be headed by a president.