Anja Salomonowitz

She grew up in a Jewish family and was a member of the socialist-Zionist youth organization Hashomer Hatzair.

She is known for the fact that her films are explicitly political and expand the boundaries and possibilities of the cinematic in their artistic form.

[2] She studied film in Vienna and Berlin and worked as an assistant to director Ulrich Seidl.

She is a tutor at the Documentary Academy at the Jihlava International Film Festival, together with the Filipino filmmaker Khavn de La Cruz.

She is known for the fact that her films are explicitly political and that their artistic form extends the limits and possibilities of the cinematic.

Her Jewish grandaunt was in a concentration camp, her nanny joined the socialistic resistance and her grandmother "did nothing".

THIS MOVIE IS A GIFT with the artist Daniel Spoerri and her son Oskar had its cinema release in December 2019 and is currently running at film festivals and in museums and exhibitions worldwide, including mumok, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Art Berlin, Paris internationale.

She is currently working on a film about the Ukrainian activist Inna Shevshenko, the prominent founder of the feminist group FEMEN.