Berlin 2025: Tilda Swinton to receive honorary ‘Golden Bear’
Berlin Film Festival has announced that actor Tilda Swinton will receive an honorary ‘Golden Bear’ at the 2025 edition of the annual event.
The 75th Berlin Film Festival is set to take place between February 13th and February 23rd, 2025. Tom Tykwer’s upcoming movie The Light is scheduled to open the Berlin Film Festival. Other notable premieres include Jan-Ole Gerster’s Islands, starring Sam Riley as a tennis coach at a holiday resort, and Madeleine Sims-Fewer’s new film, Honey Bunch.
At the festival’s opening ceremony on February 13th at the Berlinale Palast, Swinton will be recognised for her lifetime achievement in the film industry. She has a storied history with the festival, having previously served as the President of the International Jury in 2009.
Festival director Tricia Tuttle said of the recognition of Swinton: “The range of Tilda Swinton’s work is breathtaking. To cinema she brings so much humanity, compassion, intelligence, humour and style, and she expands our ideas of the world through her work. Tilda is one of our modern filmmaking idols, and has also long been part of the Berlinale family. We are delighted to be able to present her with this Honorary Golden Bear.”
Meanwhile, Swinton added: “The Berlinale is the first film festival I ever went to, in 1986 with Derek Jarman and the first film I made, his Caravaggio. It was my portal into the world in which I have made my life’s work – the world of international filmmaking – and I have never forgotten the debt I owe it.”
She continued: “To be honoured in this way by this particular festival is deeply touching for me: it will be my privilege and pleasure to celebrate, once more next February, the seedbed that is this wide-eyed and reliably wonderful gathering.”
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