LINN LÖFFLER (b. 1983) is a curator, filmmaker and musician.
She has been part of the film and culture industry since 2007 and has worked with various institutions during this time, including the Goethe-Institut Hungary and the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb).
Since 2011, she has been involved in the Berlin International Film Festival and has served as the coordinator of the Berlinale Shorts competition since 2019. She has worked on various short films as a (co-)director. Her short film Fearkingdom (2022) was shown at national and international festivals, including as part of the competitions of the Hamburg Short Film Festival, the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, and DokuFest in Prizren, Kosovo. She is a founding member of the independent film collective LaborBErlin e.V. and has been the chair of the association since 2022. She is also a translator of Hungarian-German and has been a member of a music group under various guises since 2008, with appearances at Fusion Festival, Garbicz Festival, Kater Blau, UT Connewitz and elsewhere.
MAGDA JAROSZEWICZ, born in 1986, is a film director and producer based in Berlin.
She graduated from Jagiellonian University with a degree in Theater and Performing Arts Studies and specialized in film directing at the National Film School in Lodz.
Magda's short films, including "The Death of a Czech Dog" (2011), "Wild Berries" (2016), and "Shooting Stars" (2019), have received recognition and awards at international film festivals, including the Grand Jury Prize for "Shooting Stars" at Slamdance 2020. Magda has previously worked as a director and researcher for Arte, as well as for various broadcasters such as BBC and Al Jazeera. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents.
Festival management and programme committee: Since her Studies of Intercultural Communication, Spanish and History in Saarbrücken and Paris, NORA MOLITOR
has been working for international film-, literature- and theater festivals and institutions, including the the Berlin International Literature Festival (ilb), Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, the Franco-German stage festival ‘Perspectives’, Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art and Berlinale ‘Forum Expanded’. Jury activities for the festival des cinemas différents et expérimentaux de Paris (FCDEP) and Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF). She is co-founder of transdemo e.V., member of LaborBerlin e.V. and curates and coordinates interdisciplinary projects in the independent cultural scene of Berlin.
GREGOR BARTSCH is a director and editor.
He was born in Pirna in 1978, did his community service in Ghana and worked as a carpenter and at a rubbish collection company. In 2002 he began studying media technology at the FH Deggendorf and continued at UWE Bristol in the field of time-based media. He holds a diploma in engineering and a Master of Fine Art from the HFF Konrad Wolf.
In 2007 he co-directed Ideal 50 - from Plan to City to New Man with Marcus Große. Since then he has been working as a film editor and various films in which he has participated have been presented and awarded prizes at national and international festivals. In the field of installation and media art, he deals with the ideas and connections between architecture, landscape and people. He workshops in film and film editing at institutions such as the Nigerian Film Cooperation. In 2019, he founded the concept choir Vokalensemble Rechenzentrum. Gregor Bartsch lives and works in Potsdam and Berlin.
ANNA [BARTHOLDY] Anna studied documentary film directing at the Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg.
Ihr Diplomfilm entstand in Chile und thematisiert die Rettung von 33 verschütteten Minenarbeitern. Nach dem Studium arbeitete sie für diverse Theater und Filmprojekte, als Regisseurin und Dramaturgin sowie für Theater- und Filmfestivals als Kuratorin. Zurzeit arbeitet sie im Leitungsteam vom Denk- und Produktionsort Libken in der Uckermark als künstlerische Leiterin.
Advisory Board Programme Commission: MARLENE DENNINGMANN is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin.
Her works, which encompass films, talks, performances and workshops, seek to interweave various pop phenomena with social change while focusing on society as an expression of both tradition and utopia.
After completing her studies in film and contemporary media at the HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg, she founded the platform VETO Film, which she developed and presented various film series together with Maya Connors and Katja Lell. She has most recently served as a jury member and curator for the stuttgarter filmwinter festival for expanded media, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, and for the city of Hamburg’s scholarship program for the visual arts. She has been a permanent member of the selection committee for media installations at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival since 2021.