Christian Petzold

He was born in Hilden, Germany, in 1960 and has lived in Berlin since 1981. He is the head of the movement called the Berlin School, along with renowned filmmakers such as Angela Schanelec and Ulrich Köhl. He studied German and Theatre at the Freie Universität Berlin, and then film at the German Academy of Film and Television. He made his debut in the nineties, revealing his talent internationally with Die innere Sicherheit (2000). Since then he has directed films such as Gespenster (2004), Yella (2006), Jerichow (2008), Dreileben (2011), Barbara (2012, Silver Bear at the Berlinale for Best Director), Phoenix (2014) and Transit (2018), all of which won awards at many festivals and have been the subject of retrospectives around the world. His film Undine premiered at the Berlinale, where it won a Fipresci Prize.

Festival de Cine de Sevilla