Jury #2
Competition
Animation
Dennis Vetter
Dennis Vetter works as a film critic and editor, moderator, film mediator, curator, and video editor. Texts have appeared in Film Comment, taz, Kolik Film, Filmbulletin, epd film, Der Tagesspiegel, Fluter, Jungle World, Senses of Cinema, Filmexplorer, cléo, among others. Moderations at Viennale, Diagonale, Intl. Short Film Festival Winterthur, Cinemathèque Leipzig, HARD:LINE. From 2013-2023 he served as a board member of the German Film Critics Association, since 2023 as an advisory board member. Co-founder of the Berlin Critics’ Week (2015), Artistic Director since 2020 (collectively since 2021). Dennis was a co-founder of the Hungry Eyes Festival (film/performance/installation, Institute for Applied Theater Studies Giessen). He programmed at various film festivals, like the Kasseler Dokfest, La Fête du Slip, or Nippon Connection. He screened video essays at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and La Cinémathèque québécoise. As a film mediator he worked for Sinema Transtopia, Filmfest Dresden, BFMAF, among others.
Christina Wolf
Christina Wolf holds a master’s degree in cultural and film studies with a focus on feminist film theory, vampires and French horror film. She has studied in Erlangen and Dublin.
She now mainly works for the broadcast network Bayerischer Rundfunk: as radiohost for the cultural channel’s morning show Bayern2 Welt am Morgen, as a podcast writer or as on-screen TV reporter from film festivals for BR kinokino. Besides her broadcast activities, Christina is a freelance moderator for Berlin Film Festival, Filmfest Munich or DOK.fest München among others. For her work, she has received several awards, including the German Audiobook Prize.
Antje Nikola Mönning
Antje Nikola Mönning, born in 1977 in Münster, studied acting at Schauspielschule München (1999–2002). After theater and musical engagements, she focused on film and television, playing the lead role of Sister Jenny in „Um Himmels Willen“ (ARD) from 2007 to 2009.
Since 2007, she has worked as a producer, actress, composer, and writer with wtp international. She starred in films such as „Angels with dirty wings“ (2009), „Illusion“ (2013), and „Roland Reber‘s Cabaret of death“ (2019), and started composing the film score as well. All films premiered at the International Hofer Filmtage and were screened at international festivals.
In 2023, she published her book “Nicht normal” ist ganz normal. Since June 2024, she has lectured as a guest professor at TU Munich on “The Media’s Influence on Sexuality and Body Image.” Currently, she is on a cinema tour across Germany with the new feature film „There is a Hausen everywhere“ (2024, directed by wtp-kollektiv).
