[2] She is the sister of Green Party politician Georg Willi [de],[3] who has served as the mayor of Innsbruck since May 2018.

[4] Willi posthumously realized and edited the material of Michael Glawogger, who died of malaria during the production of an untitled film project in Liberia in 2014.

Under the title Untitled, it premiered in the Panorama section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2017.

Willi created the film using the footage from Glawogger's four and a half months of shooting through the Balkans, Italy and Africa.

[10][11][12] In his review of Tár, David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Editor Monika Willi makes the expansive running time of more than two-and-a-half hours breathe, but also fly by with gripping tension".