Anna Roller

Director & Screenwriter

Anna Roller was born in 1993 in Germany. In 2014 she started to study directing at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Her short films „Pan“ and „The Last Children in Paradise“ were screened at more than 60 international festivals such as Palm Springs or Camerimage, and won multiple awards. In 2022 her short „Brat“ won the German Short Film Award. During the lockdown in 2020 she created the IGTV Series „Curfew Calls“ together with kalekonfilm. Anna Roller was part of the „Future Frames“ program at the Karlovy Vary Festival, the „Talent Village“ at Les Arc Festival and the Cutting Edge Talent Camp in Mannheim. Her debut „Dead Girls Dancing“ is currently in postproduction.

© photo: Felix Pflieger

GÖR | director & screenwriter: Anna Roller

HFF Munich

GÖR | director & screenwriter: Anna Roller

HFF Munich

GÖR | director & screenwriter: Anna Roller

HFF Munich

PAN | director & screenwriter: Anna Roller

HFF Munich

PAN | director & screenwriter: Anna Roller

HFF Munich

PAN | director & screenwriter: Anna Roller

HFF Munich

PAN | director & screenwriter: Anna Roller

HFF Munich

PAN | director & screenwriter: Anna Roller

HFF Munich

DIE LETZTEN KINDER IM PARADIES | director & screenwriter: Anna Roller

HFF Munich

DIE LETZTEN KINDER IM PARADIES | director & screenwriter: Anna Roller

HFF Munich

DIE LETZTEN KINDER IM PARADIES | director & screenwriter: Anna Roller

HFF Munich

DIE LETZTEN KINDER IM PARADIES | director & screenwriter: Anna Roller

HFF Munich

Filmographie

2021

DEAD GIRLS DANCING
feature film | 90‘ | in pre-production
(Buch & Regie)

GÖR
short film | Allergikerfilm | HFF Munich
(Regie)

CURFEW CALLS
web series | 14 episodes a 5’ | kalekone film (showrunner)
Episode 1 | RUN GIRL RUN | 5‘ (director)

BRAT
short film | 8‘ | in Vorproduktion (screenwriter, director)

2019

DIE LETZTEN KINDER IM PARADIES
short film | 29‘ | HFF Munich (screenwriter, director)

2017

PAN
short film | 16‘ | HFF Munich (screenwriter, director)

2016

MOCCA SWING
music video | 4‘ | Monaco Swing Ensemble (co-director)

WOHIN GEHST DU, WENN DU SAGST,
DASS DU NACH HAUSE GEHST?
short film | 10‘ | HFF Munich (screenwriter, director)

2015

UNGARISCHER TANZ FÜR ZWEI
short film | 12‘ | HFF Munich (screenwriter, director)

2014

SOPHIE
short film | 5‘ | (screenwriter, director)

2013

ES IST STILL IN DEINEN AUGEN
short film | 30‘ | BKM (co-director)

2012

KUNTERGRAUDUNKELBUNT
medium length film | 42‘ | BKM
(director)

Education

Studium – Regie für Kino & Fernsehfilm
HFF München

Awards

GÖR
Lola – Kurzfilmpreis 2021 – Gewinner
Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2021 – Gewinner

DIE LETZTEN KINDER IM PARADIES
Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2019 – Erstauffürung
20. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2019 – Wettbewerb
Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival 2019 – Volumina Award
filmreif! – Das Bundesfestival junger Film 2019 – Best Directing
19. International Film Schools Festival Award – Uruguay –
Best Fiction Film by the Professional Jury –
Special Mention by the Students Jury
EnergaCAMERIMAGE – Bronze Award Student Etudes
Blicke Festival 2019 – Aus-Blicke Preis
Deutscher Kamerapreis Nachwuchs für Felix Pflieger
Big Shorts Award – Nominierung Beste Regie, Beste Kamera,
Beste Schauspielerin Lea Drinda

PAN
Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2017 – Erstaufführung
Starterfilmpreis der Stadt München
FiSH Filmfestival Rostock 2017 – Jury, Publikums- und Sputnikpreis
Shocking Shorts – Finalist Nachwuchspreis
Flimmern und Rauschen 2018 – Jury Preis
Yale Studentfilm Festival 2018 – Best Editing & Best Soundtrack
JUFINALE Bayerisches Jugendfilmfestival 2018 – Jury Preis
Genrenale 6 2019 – WTF Preis
Phenomena Festival 2019 – Best Cinematography, Felix Pflieger
Palm Springs International Short Film Festival 2018
CIFF43 Cleveland Internation Film Festival 2019
12th Go Short – Int. Short Film Festival Nijmegen 2020
Vimeo Staff Pick

KUNTERGRAUDUNKELBUNT
Int. Kurzfilmfestival Hannover 2013 – Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis
Flimmern und Rauschen 2013 – Jury Preis
JuFinale 2013 – Publikumspreis

PAN | Kurzfilm