About the Artist

Artist and filmmaker Adina Pintilie was born in 1980 in Bucharest and lives between Bucharest and Berlin. Her latest composite of works, You Are Another Me. A Cathedral of the Body, has been presented at the Romanian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2022, at the Kunsthalle Bega in Timi?oara as part of the European Capital of Culture 2023, and at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich.

Her feature film Touch Me Not was awarded the Golden Bear at the 2018 Berlinale and was nominated for the European Discovery Award at the European Film Academy Awards. Since, it has been distributed in theaters in more than forty territories and was presented in festivals and institutions including the MoMA, New York; ICA, London; Bozar, Brussels; Harvard Film Archive; BFI London Film Festival; Sarajevo Film Festival; International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam; Toronto International Film Festival; Viennale, Vienna; Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film received widespread critical acclaim in reviews including in the New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, Los Angeles Times, Sight & Sound, Télérama, Les Inrockuptibles, Die Welt, Die Zeit, Libertatea, Adevarul, Observator Cultural, and Arta Magazine.

The medium length Don’t Get Me Wrong premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2007 – Filmmakers of  the Present Competition, won the Golden  Dove Award at Dok Leipzig, the Best Female Director Award at the Mexico  City International Contemporary Film  Festival, and was presented in more than fifty international film festivals including the Thessaloniki International  Film Festival, Montpellier International  Festival of Mediterranean Film, Trieste Film Festival, Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, Documenta Madrid, Dokfest Munich, Moscow International Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, and Warsaw International Film Festival. Her medium length Oxygen premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2010, was nominated for the Best Short Film Award at the Romanian Film Industry Awards, and was presented, amongst others, at BAFICI Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Warsaw International Film Festival, Montpellier International Film Festival, Bilbao International Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and Tampere International Film Festival.

Pintilie has taught internationally including at KHM Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Berlinale Talents, Stockholm University of the Arts, York University Toronto, National University of Drama and Film Bucharest, SOURCES 2, and Tehran Film Festival. She was jury member, amongst others,  at Berlinale Official Competition, Locarno – Pardi di Domani Competition,  International Competition – Trieste Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – Eurimages Lab Award,  TorinoFilmlab, Indielisboa International Film Festival, Oberhausen International  ShortFilm Festival, Nordic Competition – Goteborg International Film Festival,  First Appearance – IDFA International  Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Next Masters – DOK Leipzig International  Film Festival. Currently, Pintilie is Professor for cinema at the HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg and in the production of her next feature film Death and the Maiden, alongside further experimentation.