Gianna Felicita Scholten

Gianna Scholten is a filmmaker who spent her childhood in Zurich and Berlin. Her latest short film, Two Giants That Exist Here - A German Fairytale, received the Prix Alice Guy at FID Marseille, the New Signs Award at Lago Film Fest, and the Premio Jurado Joven at FILMadrid. Furthermore, her works have been shown at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin and the INLaguna Film Festival, among others. Currently, she is studying at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), where she was awarded a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Prize in 2024. Gianna is also a graduate of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB).

Filmography

2023 Two Giants That Exist Here - A German Fairytale
2022 At Night by Horse

Selected project: "Like a Fish, Like a Boat, Like My Mother"

In a quaint Swiss village, Wilhelm Tell is a beloved seducer whose charm masks a life of moral decay. His daughters, Wilhelmine and Trudi, are tormented by Bobo, a local wrestling star, leading to their confinement in a psychiatric clinic. Hedi, Tell's wife, is haunted by visions of her dead father and eventually drowns in despair. The family’s grief and anger culminate in setting the village ablaze, revealing the hidden suffering and igniting a world-consuming inferno.