Vales­ka Grise­bach

Vales­ka Grise­bach, born in 1968, is a Ger­man film direc­tor. After study­ing Ger­man and phi­los­o­phy in Berlin, Munich and Vien­na, she began study­ing film in Vien­na. Her grad­u­a­tion film MEIN STERN was nom­i­nat­ed for the Adolf Grimme Award in 2002 and won the Crit­ics’ Award at the Toron­to Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val as well as the main prize at the Tori­no Film Fes­ti­val. In 2006, she pre­sent­ed her sec­ond fea­ture film SEHNSUCHT in com­pe­ti­tion at the Berlin Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val.