Biography
Nora Fingscheidt (born 1983) is a German director and screenwriter. She has been a participant of the Max Ophüls prize [de] film festival since 2011 for her short films, winning the prize in 2017 for Without This World (Ohne diese Welt). She became widely known for her critically acclaimed film System Crasher, which premiered at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival in 2019 and for which she won the Alfred Bauer Prize as well as other prizes. In 2020, her film also won eight awards at the...
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Complete Filmography
The Outrun
2024
Writer, Director
Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a dec...
The Unforgivable
2021
Director
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Das Kino ist tot, es lebe das Kino - Berlinale-Beobachtungen
2020
as Self
On the occasion of the last “Berlinale” under the direction of Dieter Kosslick in February 2019, the camera follows the festival director on his profe...
System Crasher
2019
Director, Writer
Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not looking to c...
Without This World
2017
Director
World, that is for the followers of a small Mennonite community in Argentina, all that is outside, beyond their community, where the "worldmen" live. ...
Die Lizenz
2017
Director
After two years of waiting, Adam and Ellas first part of the application for a „licence to procreate“ has been successfully reviewed. To complete the ...
Boulevard's End
2014
Director, Writer
This short documentary focuses on the very end of Washington Boulevard, where the city of Los Angeles meets the ocean and the Venice Pier begins. The ...