US director Haynes to lead Berlinale 2025 jury

The Berlinale, as the festival is known, was "overjoyed" to have Haynes leading the panel selecting the winners of the Golden and Silver Bear top prizes. "Todd Haynes is a dazzlingly gifted writer and director with an impressive range," festival director Tricia Tuttle said in a statement. The filmmaker's "body of work is at once stylistically versatile but also unmistakably his", Tuttle said. Haynes's debut feature, "Poison", a triptych of stories inspired by the works of French novelist Jean Genet...