The actress, screenwriter and director American Kristen Stewart, 32, will be the president of the 73rd edition of the Berlinale 2023, to be held from February 16 to 26.
"We are thrilled to have brought in Kristen Stewart for this assignment. exceptional. She is one of the most talented and versatile actresses of her generation," Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian, directors of the famous event, declared in a statement.
Kristen Stewart is considered one of the biggest young talents of Hollywood. In 1999, at the age of 9, she made her big screen debut.
Stewart became known as a child in The Panic Room, by David Fincher, and then his career took off with his role in the series Twilight.
Since then he has appeared in several films by French director Olivier Assayas Sils Maria, Personal shopper, and has worked with Woody Allen en Café Society.
In 2018 she directed a short film and is currently working on her feature directorial debut, the film adaptation of the bestseller The water timelineby Lydia Yuknavitch.
Last year it was the filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan who served as president of the jury at the 2022 edition of the International Film Festival of Berlin.