The Berlin Film Festival is to fete Tilda Swinton with an Honorary Golden Bear for her career achievement. The award will be presented at the Opening Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 13, 2025. “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,” said Festival Director Tricia Tuttle.
Swinton commented: “The Berlinale is the first film festival I ever went to, in 1986 with Derek Jarman and the first film I made, his Caravaggio.
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