Kristin Stewart said she was feeling the full weight of the responsibility of being jury president at the Berlin Film Festival at the opening jury press conference on Thursday. “In full transparency, I’m kind of shaking.
It’s a not a weight that I don’t fully understand and feel not buckling under, but I’m bolstered by a really beautiful, talented jury,” she said. “I can’t wait to see who we all are at the end of this experience.
It’s kind of what you want a festival to do cumulatively. I’m ready to be changed by all the films and changed by the people around us.
I think that’s why we’re here.” She was joined on stage by jury members Iranian-French actress Golshifteh Farahani, German director Valeska Grisebach, Romanian director Radu Jude, US casting director and producer Francine Maisler, Spanish director Carla Simón, and iconic Hong Kong director and producer Johnnie To.
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