###Shivendra Singh Dungarpur Invited as International Jury Member at 76th Berlinale

New Delhi.Renowned filmmaker, Director of the Film Heritage Foundation, and Festival Director of the Mumbai Film Festival, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, has been invited to serve as a member of the prestigious International Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), scheduled to be held from February 12 to 22, 2026.

The International Jury will be chaired by acclaimed filmmaker Wim Wenders and will include several eminent film personalities from across the world. The jury will select winners of Berlinale’s most coveted awards—the Golden Bear and Silver Bear—from 20 films nominated in the main competition.

In addition, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur will present the world premiere of the restored film In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989) under the Berlinale Classics section. The restoration has been carried out by the Film Heritage Foundation. The presentation will be made alongside the film’s director Pradip Krishen and Booker Prize–winning author Arundhati Roy, who wrote the film and also acted in it.

Reacting to his selection, Dungarpur said that being invited as a member of the International Jury of the main competition at one of the world’s finest film festivals is a great honour. He added that it would be a privilege to serve alongside distinguished jury members under the chairmanship of Wim Wenders and that he is eagerly looking forward to watching the remarkable lineup of films representing the best of contemporary world cinema.

About Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

Director, producer, and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur founded his production company Dungarpur Films in 2001 and has created several award-winning advertisements and documentaries. His debut documentary Celluloid Man (2012) won two National Film Awards and was screened at over 50 international festivals. This was followed by The Immortals (2015), which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and received the Special Jury Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival.

His seven-hour documentary epic Checkmate – In Search of Jirí Menzel (2020) was voted among the top five films of the year by the British Film Institute. In 2014, he established the Film Heritage Foundation, India’s only non-governmental organization dedicated exclusively to the preservation of the country’s cinematic heritage, internationally acclaimed for its work.

Dungarpur currently serves as the Festival Director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. He is also a member of the Artistic Committee of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna and an honorary committee member of the Nitrate Picture Show at the George Eastman Museum. In 2025, he was honoured with the Vittorio Boarini Award for his outstanding contribution to preserving cinema as cultural heritage.