Malik Berkati is a Swiss journalist, film critic and political scientist, based in Berlin, ermany. He has worked for several years at festivals in Western Switzerland (PR and program adviser).
He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of an international multilingual online magazine focusing on culture and civic awareness (j:mag), and a correspondent in Berlin for various newspapers and magazines from the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
He has served on numerous international juries in Europe and Asia for FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics), as well as on the German Film Critics Jury for Best German Documentary (2017, 2022 and 2023), the Best German Short Film (2019-2021), and since 2020 Jury Member of The Critics Award for Arab Films of the Arab Cinema Center (ACC).