American director, screenwriter and producer Todd Haynes will be the president international Jury of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival early next year.

“Todd Haynes is a dazzlingly talented writer and director with an impressive range; “His work is both stylistically versatile and unmistakably his own,” he said. Berlinale manager Tricia Tuttle on Thursday. “Since his first feature film Poison won Toy Award In 1991 the Berlinale followed his filmmaking and loved it.”

For almost 40 years, Haynes has been “one of US-American cinema’s most daring and distinctive filmmakers, beloved for her great sensitivity to exploring the inner worlds of outsiders and women, and her fascinating investigations of gender and identity.” organizers said. “His ability to create complex characters has attracted the attention of many of the world’s best actors. Stars such as Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kate Winslet, Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Christian Bale and Ewan McGregor played multi-layered characters in their films.”

Berlin emphasized that Haynes emerged and rose to international fame in the early 1990s “as part of an exciting new generation of US-American directors (dubbed the ‘New Queer Cinema’ by critic B. Ruby Rich)” and added:- Oscar nominated movie Far From Heaven (2002), Haynes became a major force in US filmmaking.”

First feature film Poison It was awarded Berlin’s gay film award for Teddy and also won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

The filmmaker’s other notable works featured at the Berlinale on Thursday include: Trustworthy (1995), Velvet Gold Mine (1998), fictional Bob Dylan biography II’m not there (2007) miniseries that won the Venice Grand Jury Prize Mildred Pierce (2011), Carol (2015), Shocked (2017), Dark Waters (2019), Velvet Underground (2021) and May December (2023).