Ilker Catak’s Yellow Letters has taken the early lead on Screen International’s 2026 Berlin jury grid, while Leyla Bouzid’s In A Whisper and Grant Gee’s Everybody Digs Bill Evans received middling scores.
Nine critics are participating in this year’s jury grid and will mark all 22 films playing in competition.
Political drama Yellow Letters scored an average of 2.6 from the critics, made up of a mix of three stars (good) and two stars (average).
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
The film centres on a celebrated artist couple from Turkey whose marriage is pushed to breaking point when they are targeted by the state. Ilker’s previous film The Teachers’ Lounge premiered at Berlinale in Panorama.
Next in line was Bouzid’s In A Whisper which scored an average of 2.4. Most critics gave it three or two stars while Katja Nicodemus (Die Zeit, Germany) gave it one star (poor).
This family drama starring Eya Bouteraa, Hiam Abbass and Marion Barbeau centres on a woman living in Paris who returns to Tunisia for her uncle’s funeral.
Lastly, Grant Gee’s Everybody Digs Bill Evans received a 2.1 average. Nicodemus and Ahmed Shawky (filfan.co.uk, Egypt) gave it one star while the rest of the scores comprised four two-stars and three three-stars.
Anders Danielsen Lie, Bill Pullman, Laurie Metcalf and Barry Ward star in the 1961-set story of real-life US jazz pianist Bill Evans, and the tragedy that stops him playing.
The next scores to land on the grid will be Alan Gomis’s Dao, Karim Ainouz’s Rosebush Pruning and Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn.
The jury grid is once again updating live on screendaily.com, in addition to being printed in our Berlin dailies.
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