Ange­li­ka Levi becomes the new Artis­tic Direc­tor of the DFFB

Ange­li­ka Levi will take over the cre­ative lead­er­ship of the Acad­e­my start­ing in Octo­ber 2025. The Board of Trustees con­firmed her appoint­ment dur­ing its meet­ing on June 25, 2025 – fol­low­ing the rec­om­men­da­tion of the selec­tion com­mit­tee.

For Levi, it is a return to her old place of work: she her­self stud­ied at the DFFB from 1985 to 1991. Since then, she has been active as a film­mak­er, her works have screened at inter­na­tion­al fes­ti­vals, in exhi­bi­tions and in cin­e­mas — and have received numer­ous awards. Levi works across gen­res, with a strong focus on socio-polit­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal themes. Her sig­na­ture style is unmis­tak­able: com­plex mon­tages of dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives and mate­ri­als — includ­ing film, video, audio, pho­tog­ra­phy and texts, often from archives of var­i­ous ori­gins.

Ange­li­ka Levi has been a pro­fes­sor of film at the Hochschule für Gestal­tung in Offen­bach am Main since 2022.

The deci­sion to estab­lish an Artis­tic Direc­tor­ship at the DFFB with­out exec­u­tive man­age­ment respon­si­bil­i­ties was made by the Board of Trustees in Decem­ber 2024. The posi­tion was pub­licly adver­tised in Feb­ru­ary 2025, and the appli­ca­tion process ran until mid-March. A sev­en-mem­ber selec­tion com­mit­tee – con­sist­ing of rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Board of Trustees, lec­tur­ers, stu­dents, staff, and the man­ag­ing direc­tor – reviewed a wide range of high­ly qual­i­fied appli­ca­tions. Through a mul­ti-stage process involv­ing pre­sen­ta­tions and inter­views, Ange­li­ka Levi ulti­mate­ly impressed the com­mit­tee.

We warm­ly wel­come her and are very much look­ing for­ward to work­ing togeth­er!