Nora Fingscheidt
Visiting Filmmaker
Profile
Nora Fingscheidt was born in 1983 in Germany and spent her youth partly in Argentina. From 2003 onward she participated in the development of the self-organized film school filmArche in Berlin. At the same time, she completed her training as an acting coach under Sigrid Andersson. Nora studied fiction directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. Her graduation film, the full-length documentary WITHOUT THIS WORLD about a conservative Mennonite colony in Argentina, won the Max Ophüls Prize and First Steps Award in 2017.
Her narrative film debut, SYSTEM CRASHER, premiered at Berlinale 2019, where it won a Silver Bear (Alfred Bauer Award), won eight German Film Awards, and was Germany’s entry for the Oscars in 2020. Nora directed THE UNFORGIVABLE, a Netflix feature starring Sandra Bullock which will premiere December 2021. She continues to work both in documentary and narrative, as well as with full-length films and shorts.