Jury Student Award 2025

The Student Award is sponsored by megaherz and is endowed with 3,000 euros.

A student jury assigns the award.

 

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Annina Lehmann

Annina Lehmann is a filmmaker and researcher based in Berlin and London. She has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, an MA in Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths College and is currently pursuing a PhD in documentary film on „the temporality of displacement“ supervised by Joshua Oppenheimer. She loves hitchhiking, sketching and anything that calls for improvisation.

 

Patrick Wira

Patrick Wira is a journalist and filmmaker from North Rhine-Westphalia. While studying German and Southeast Asian Studies in Bonn, he began working and moderating at the university radio station bonnFM. He then completed a programme traineeship at Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne and worked as a journalist, radio editor and author for television reports and documentaries, among other things. He is currently studying for a Master's degree in documentary film at the Zurich University of the Arts. Thematically, he is interested in digital pop culture and, particularly niche, night trains.

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Lou von Sohlern

Lou von Sohlern was born and raised up in Munich. After completing her BA in Theatre Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Lou worked in Munich theatres and in film as an assistant director and production assistant. Lou is currently studying documentary film and television journalism at the University of Television and Film Munich. Lou is particularly interested in queer feminist and socio-political issues, which will be the focus of future projects.