Ker­stin Polte

Ker­stin Polte is a direc­tor and screen­writer. Her debut fea­ture WHO ACTUALLY INVENTED LOVE? won, among oth­ers, the Bavar­i­an Film Award. She lat­er direct­ed for tele­vi­sion, includ­ing a TATORT episode and the series WIR and BECOMING CHARLIE, both nom­i­nat­ed for the Grimme Prize. Her new film BLINDGÄNGER has just been released. At the heart of her poet­ic and humor­ous sto­ries are uncon­ven­tion­al, resilient char­ac­ters and rela­tion­ships that offer fresh per­spec­tives on soci­ety. She believes in the pow­er of imag­i­na­tion — and that one can­not cre­ate art when inter­nal­ly bro­ken. So she prac­tices build­ing new spaces — and invites oth­ers to grow with her.