team
Sarah Adam - Festival Director
Sarah Adam worked as freelance curator, programmer and program advisor. She holds a master’s degree in History and has a background as an independent cinema programmer for the cinema collective B-Movie in Hamburg. She is in charge of the Deframed Competition at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival since 2015, curated short film and experimental programs for the Metropolis Cinema Hamburg, and was part of the selection committee for the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival for several years. Furthermore she is one of the founders of the Arab Filmclub Hamburg and a member of the artist group A Wall is a Screen.
Julieta Zarankin - Programmer
was born in Buenos Aires and lives in Berlin since 2009. After graduating in Film Studies at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, she worked in the fields of production and distribution of feature films and festivals in organizations such as the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film, Black Forest Films, Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, FiGa Films and Wolf Kino. In 2014 she founded INVASION, the Argentine film festival in Berlin, which she still directs.
Rika Weniger - Assistent of the Festival Director
is a freelance actress in (re)search of her rediscovered home. Currently she lives inbetween Brussels and Neubrandenburg. Her engagements were taking her to the Oldenburg State Theatre and to the Staatstheater Braunschweig. She is organizing lectures, seminars for stage presence and theatre projects with adolescents. On October 3rd she can be seen in the scope of Grundgesetz, a production by the Maxim Gorki Theatre and directed by Marta Górnicka.
Theresa George - Festival Management
studied Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig and is especially interested in forms and genres of contemporary production of knowledge and culture, in both the global and post-colonial context. She mainly works in the threshold between critical social science theory and film/ art/ museum. She organizes lectures and film series, writes for journals like AnthroVision and CARGO and supports and edits book projects. Moreover she co-develops films. The last two feature films – DRIFT (by Helena Wittmann, 2017) and CASANOVAGENE (by Luise Donschen, 2018) – were shown at festivals worldwide. Currently she is preparing a research on military-civil border regions.
Nora Molitor - Programmer
born in Aachen, studied Intercultural Communication, Spanish and History at Saarland University and the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. She works for international film, theatre and literature festivals, such as the Berlinale Forum Expanded. For the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art she was working in film distribution. Currently she shares the responsibility for the Crossing Borders program of the Literarische Colloquium Berlin in cooperation with Robert Bosch Stiftung.
Marie Ketzscher - Program Advisor
born in Leipzig, grew up in Berlin. She studied Political Science and English in Regensburg, where she also led the writing workshop Salamander e. V.. Between 2012 and 2017 she handled PR and press for the international specialist conference FMX and for the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg’s Animationsinstitut. In 2017, she joined the Berlinale Talents team as PR officer besides working on a freelance basis. In addition, she writes for the online journal berliner-filmfestivals.de.
