Curators
INTERFILM Festival
10 - 15 November 2026
10 - 15 November 2026
Curators
Next to the pre-selection Competitions, sections and thematic programs are curated by teams of film-enthusiastic experts. Here is an overview of the curators in 2025:
studied film, theater, ethnology and journalism in Berlin. After his studies he learned film animation at Kaskeline Filmproduktion and realized his own animated films as well as stage designs and projections for the Schaubühne Berlin, Schauspielhaus Hamburg and for the world exhibition spectacle "Flambee" in Hannover 2000. He joined interfilm in 1998 and took over the role of producer.
Selection Committee: International Competition
Selection Committee: VR meets Fulldome
The passionate cineaste initially studied film history and switched from theory to practice when she went to the Film Academy to study screenwriting and directing. She was already a member of the international jury at INTERFILM in 2001. Since then, she has been a regular jury member for the Script Pitch and on the festival's pre-selection committee. This year, she will also be part of the curation team for the International Competition. She has been judging short films for the Almagro International Film Festival (AIFF) in Spain since 2023. She now also works there as a program coordinator and is part of the curation team for the Spanish and international competition. She lives in Berlin and works as a freelance screenwriter and dramaturge.
Selection Committee: International Competition
is a queer writer and director born in Mexico. His short films were screened at Oscar qualifying festivals like Out Fest Los Angeles and Morelia Film Festival. His Spanish feature film screenplay “Acapulco Magic” was a finalist at the Guanajuato Film Festival screenplay competition, it also won the film fund for features in development provided by the Mexican Film Institute IMCINE. The project was invited to La Fabrique Cinéma de l’Institut Français program to attend Cannes Film Festival and Gotham Film Week in New York. He started at Interfilm curating Queer Fever and now is part of the selecting committee of Script Pitch where he also acts as a writing Mentor for the selected screenplays. He co-curates the German Short Film competition at Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis.
Selection Committee: International Competition
Sungyeon Chun is a Berlin-based curator, cultural manager, and documentary filmmaker from South Korea. She has worked across international film festivals in Europe and Asia, focusing on programme coordination and event management. She values cinema as a collective experience, where people gather, open themselves to the screen, and share a space shaped by different emotions and questions. As a filmmaker, she explores how identity shapes the way people experience the city.
Selection Committee: International Competition
Originally coming from the music side of things, Moritz has been playing in punk and reggae bands, has toured extensively as one half of an anti-folk duo and has played records to people for the better part of his life. Studying art, music and media he came in contact with short film which in it’s diversity and diy ethos reminded him immediately of what he loved about the music scenes he came from. Growing interested in questions of narrative perspectives, the contradictions of documentary approaches and essayist forms.
Selection Committee: Dokumentarfilmwettbewerb
Selection Committee: Reality Bites
started as a location manager at interfilm in 2011 and has since worked in various positions for the festival. Since 2018, she has been head of acquisitions for short film distribution at interfilm Berlin. She is also a member of the festival curatorial board, the artistic direction collective and responsible for financing at interfilm. Sarah has a Master's degree in Media Studies from the Film University Babelsberg. She is a member of the selection committee for the German competition.
Selection Committee: German Competition
is a emergent film producer, curator and political educator from Berlin. She is currently studying film production at filmArche and social work with a focus on critical diversity and community studies at Alice Salomon University. She co-initiated and directs the Tibet Film Festival Berlin, curated films at Sinema Transtopia and produced the podcast „die mische ballert“, which sheds light on mixed race BiPoc Perspectives in Germany. In her projects, she combines creative work with political education, particularly on the topics of diversity and community.
Selection Committee: German Competition
Vic Atanasov studied Gender Studies in Berlin and Tokyo, with a research focus on fe/male and queer gazes in Japanese cinema. As an editor and event organizer, Vic is active in Berlin’s queer arts and culture scene. Vic curates the German Competition and co-heads the editorial team together with Lena. Since 2023, Vic has also been working for the Japanese film festival Nippon Connection, where she leads the cultural program and curates the short film section.
Selection Committee: German Competition
has been connected to interfilm and KUKI since childhood and learned to love the short film medium in its artistic and political dimensions here. After a detour into sociolinguistics and a bachelor's degree in production design at the Film University Babelsberg, she is now studying there for a master's degree in film and television production. Felipa works freelance as a director and graphic designer and runs a small production company focusing on educational contents.
Selection Committee: Green Film Competition
has been an interfilmer for over 25 years. He studied sociology and journalism, enjoys writing book reviews, published the book "Das Digital" in 1998 and in 2022 published "When Shiva rages, the world shakes - Hinduism as an adventure in everyday life in India". He has been curating at interfilm since the beginning, he looks after the website, organizes the monthly, nationwide short film programme series Shorts Attack and loves gardening.
Selection Committee: Green Film Competition
Selection Committee: Sound & Vision
I was born in Berlin and work as an editor, film technician, cameraman and currently as a documentary filmmaker. I also realize the technical realization of film festivals, among others for Interfilm and Kuki since 2020. This is my first curation at Interfilm. I am looking forward to great films!
Selection Committee: Green Film Competition
was born in Australia to Chinese-Russian and German immigrants and settled in Berlin in her early twenties in 1993. She has always been involved in music, film, performance and art and has worked at interfilm Berlin since 1998. Monica became Artistic Director of KUKI Young Short Film Festival in 2011, leads KUKI’s film-curation workshops for teenagers, gives talks and curates short film programs for festivals and institutes around the world. In 2021, she joined the short film selection committee at Berlinale-Generation and developed the digital film education platform, Kurzfilm im Klassenraum that was launched in 2022. Her focus lies on the inventive and empathetic potential of the cinematic short form and how film can help young people feel at home in the world and in themselves. For the adult side of interfilm, she researches films and co-curates the genre programs and Teenage Riot.
Selection Committee: KUKI .19 Junges Kurzfilmfestival Berlin
is an ultra-long-term student of German philology and something with culture. She has been a permanent part of the KUKI team since 2018, where she organizes, screens, curates, feeds social media, bakes cakes, and co-curates Teenage Riot. And because she likes all weird things, she is also co-curator of eject.
Selection Committee: KUKI .19 Junges Kurzfilmfestival Berlin
Selection Committee: Eject - The long night of weird shorts
successfully dropped out of an unhealthy degree course to rock a technical apprenticeship instead and is now industriously sitting in the office for money or travelling around. As a cultural work balance he has been drifting through various media landscapes for years and ended up as a volunteer at Interfilm in 2017. His penchant for tinkering and his open heart for absurd curiosities quickly became apparent and so it was practically inevitable that he has been co-curating and co-producing the show ‘eject’ ever since.
Selection Committee: Eject - The long night of weird shorts
works in film literacy, as well as in curation and cultural management, and curates for festivals such as Berlinale Generation. She is the co-initiator and project lead of CineConnect. Her work focuses on restructuring processes that critically address discrimination and power dynamics. Strengthening communities is particularly important to her, which is why she co-founded jü_misch. She is also deeply engaged with current societal developments, which is why she is pursuing a career as an AI project manager.
Selection Committee: Focus On - Shared Shores
is a Shiraz-born, Mannheim-raised film curator, programmer, and creative producer currently based in Berlin. She is a curator of Sinema Transtopia, advisor to the Berlinale Forum, Producer at Road River Films and artistic director of Interfilm Script Pitch Lab. In the past she has made film programmes for the Berliner Festspiele and the Akademie der Künste. She is currently engaged in research projects pertaining to the history of Iranian cinema from the 20th century.
Selection Committee: Script Pitch
Regina Anastasia Kewo is a Berlin-based Indonesian filmmaker with a background in neuroscience and a passion for storytelling. After cutting her teeth at KUKI, she joined the Script Pitch Selection Committee in 2025 and curated Rewire Your Mind, a program focused on films that disrupt cognitive patterns, confront biases, and question what we think we know.
Selection Committee: Rewire your Mind
is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary actor & artist, active member of the BIPoC-Alliance, which developed a space for the BIPoC Community at the Berlinale is a co-curator of The Black Gaze at Interfilm but also over all a creative force in various film and storytelling projects.
Selection Committee: The Black Gaze
@yagitown is a Berlin-based filmmaker and visual artist specializing in film, photography and performance art. She graduated from the Filmarche in 2011 in the Cinematography program. In 2021 she received the INITIAL 1st scholarship from the Academy of Arts for her photographic work and research, Hidden Figures, and as part of her former performance collective Luftpflanzen, took part in the Hamburg Fluctoplasma Festival 2021.
Her artistic practice and works mostly revolve around Afro-diasporic feminist and political perspectives that she owes to her ancestors.
Selection Committee: The Black Gaze
keeps saying that fae is applying for acting studies this year but is still enrolled at the FU for 8 Semesters now. But since "studying is a side hustle for now", she is concentrating on her work and passion. Along the way she got to perform on several stages across Berlin, stood in front of cameras as a model, actor or dancer and had the wildest moments as an artist supervisor. At INTERFILM she found one of her many homes and started curating as well as having her directing/producing debut with the 39th INTERFILM opening ceremony.
Selection Committee: Queer Fever
studied theater and film studies as well as acting in Berlin and New York and has appeared on stage, TV and film. She curates for various international film festivals, including interfilm Berlin, Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Arab Filmfestival San Francsico (2014-2019) and plays and sings in the all female swing band The Toolbox Orchestra. She also works as an on-set coach and acting coach (Young Talents), gives acting and pitch trainings, e.g. for the DFFB Berlin and the KUKI Film Festival and moderates film screenings, panels and events at international (film) festivals.
Selection Committee: Sound & Vision
Selection Committee: Food on Film
is a documentary filmmaker from Scotland, now based in Berlin. Driven by a deep love for cinema, Benjamin is passionate about telling stories. Benjamin has directed two feature-length documentaries and a diverse range of short films. His experience includes working with the Cambodian International Film Festival. With a degree in film production, Benjamin continues to explore the power of documentary as a tool for connection, change, and empathy.
Selection Committee: Sound & Vision
is a Birmingham, Alabama native and Berlin based filmmaker/producer and collage artist. He has produced projects in both Europe and the US. Recently, he completed an intership with interfilm and beyond excited to be co-curating Eject.
Selection Committee: Reality Bites
holds a bachelor’s in Theatre and Film and a master’s in Creative Film Production. She joined the interfilm team as a volunteer in 2024 and hasn’t left since! This is her second year as a previewer. She is also a trailer editor, a programmer, and short film producer.
Selection Committee: Craving for Narratives - Essay Films
born and raised in Ecuador, studies Film Studies, Latin American Studies and French at the FU Berlin. He arrived in Berlin in his early 20s and fell in love with the Berliner cinema culture and its colorful landscape. Since 2024 part of the interfilm team, where the short film's potential unveiled before his eyes: condensing both conceptual and observational views of our crazy fascinating world in a short time; the dichotomy between DIY and cinematic aesthetics in the free exploration of certain topics pertaining our times; under the umbrella of curatorship, how all this unique pieces "communicate/talk" between each other: interfilm-ic language (no pun intended).
Selection Committee: Food on Film
is an expert in immersive and interactive technologies and directs the Courant3D film festival in Angoulême. He is a specialist in sound and cinema, directs short films and documentaries, and animates conferences. This expertise allows him to serve as a jury member or curator for numerous festivals. For INTERFILM, he has developed several immersive short film programs together with Alexander Stein, which will be screened at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium in Berlin.
Selection Committee: Virtual Reality meets Full Dome
