The final announcement will be made tomorrow (22 June).

With Locarno chief Carlo Chatrian’s appointment as successor to Dieter Kosslick as the artistic director of the Berlinale considered a done deal by the German media after a leak from the decision-making body to a tabloid journalist, attention is now focused at who will be the festival manager.

This person will be responsible for finances, organisation and sponsors as part of a new dual leadership for the festival from May 2019.

Monika Grütters, Germany’s state minister for culture and media, has long made it clear she wanted to appoint a woman