Angela Schanelec

Writer and director Angela Schanelec first worked as a theater actress before she began making films. Her films premiered at Berlinale, Cannes and Locarno and have won numerous awards, among them the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2019 Berlinale for ICH WAR ZUHAUSE, ABER and the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2023 Berlinale for MUSIC. Angela Schanelec has translated several Shakespeare plays into German and teaches as a professor of narrative film at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.