Nora Fingscheidt

Birthday: 1/1/1983
Place of birth: Braunschweig, Germany
Fame for: Directing

Biography

Nora Fingscheidt (born 1983) is a German director and screenwriter. She has been a participant of the Max Ophüls prize [de] film festival since 2011 for her short films, winning the prize in 2017 for Without This World (Ohne diese Welt). She became widely known for her critically acclaimed film System Crasher, which premiered at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival in 2019 and for which she won the Alfred Bauer Prize as well as other prizes. In 2020, her film also won eight awards at the German Film Awards, including for best picture, best screenplay and best director. As of 2020, she is working on a currently untitled film featuring Sandra Bullock based on the 2009 series Unforgiven.