Marion Kellmann
Marion Kellmann is a filmmaker, visual artist, and mathematician based in Cologne & Berlin, Germany.
Her work spans documentary, experimental cinema, found-footage, and montage-based film essays,
with an artistic focus on genre, cultural imagery, and cinematic form. Drawing on her mathematical
interest, she approaches film with analytical precision, emphasizing structure, repetition, and narrative
patterns. Her films have been presented internationally at festivals and in curated museum programs,
including the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival, IndieLisboa and
Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro. In addition to her filmmaking practice, she teaches dramaturgy
as a lecturer at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg.
EDUCATION
Distance University in Hagen – BSc in Mathematics
Academy of Media Arts Cologne – Diploma in Film & Media Arts (with distinction)
Film Academy Baden-Württemberg – Screenwriting Studies
SEMINARS & WORK AS A LECTURER
Since 2024 block seminars on:
Short Film Dramaturgy
Feature Film Dramaturgy
Literary Adaptation
SELECTED FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
2025 — Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival, Chicago, USA
2024 — Braunschweig International Film Festival, Braunschweig, Germany
2024 — Montenegro Film Festival, Herceg Novi, Montenegro
2024 — Ranfilmfest, Kassel, Germany
2024 — Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany
2024 — 29. OpenEyes Filmfest, Marburg, Germany
2024 — 17. Musikfilmtage Oberaudorf
2024 — Biennale Bavaria – Neuer Heimatfilm Unterwegs
2024 — AVIFF Art Film Festival, Marseille, France
2024 — San Antonio Independent Film Festival, San Antonio de Ibarra, Ecuador
2024 — Regensburger Kurzfilmtage, Regensburg, Germany
2024 — Bamberger Kurzfilmtage, Bamberg, Germany
2024 — Filmschauplätze NRW, Germany
2024 — Snowdance Independent Film Festival, Essen, Germany
2024 — Bolton International Film Festival, Bolton, UK
2024 — L’Europe autour de l’Europe, Paris, France
2024 — Flickers‘ Rhode Island International Film Festival, Providence & Newport, Rhode Island, USA
2024 — Filmfest Dresden, Germany
2024 — Ibizacinefest, Ibiza, Spain
2024 — Curta Cinema – Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2024 — Filmkunstfest MV, Schwerin, Germany
2024 — Landshut Shortfilm Festival, Landshut, Germany
2024 — Thomas Edison Film Festival, USA ( Jury’s Choice Award)
2024 — London Short Film Festival, London, UK
2023 — Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
2021 — Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe / Europe by Europe, Paris, France
2021 — Hammer Kurzfilmnächte, Hamm, Germany
2021 — Istanbul Experimental, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 — Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, Serbia
2021 — SorsiCorti, Palermo, Italy
2021 — National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA (Virtual Cinema Series)
2021 — POW Film Fest, Portland, Oregon, USA
2021 — Minikino Film Week 7 – Bali International Short Film Festival, Indonesia
2021 — International Kansk Video Festival, Russia/Siberia
2021 — International Women Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon
2021 — AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival, France
2021 — Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Germany
2021 — Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, Germany
2021 — Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival, San Jose, California, USA
2021 — Toronto International Women Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2021 — Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival, Chicago, USA
2021 — Taos Shortz Film Festival, Questa, New Mexico, USA
2021 — 40th Annual Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival Collection, Hoboken, USA (Jury’s Choice Award)
2021 — Snowdance Independent Film Festival, Landsberg, Germany
2021 — 33rd Minimalen Kortfilmfestival, Norway
2020 — Glasgow Short Film Festival, United Kingdom
2020 — Filmfest Dresden, Germany
2020 — Flickers‘ Rhode Island International Film Festival, United States
2020 — Lady Filmmakers Festival, United States
2020 — Cinefem, Uruguay
2020 — 18th Tirana International Film Festival, Albania (Video Art & Experimental Competition)
2020 — 47th Film Fest Gent, Belgium
2020 — 39th Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden
2020 — Filmzeit Kaufbeuren, Germany
2020 — shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival
2020 — 17th Syracuse International Film Festival, United States
2020 — Nottingham International Film Festival, United Kingdom
2020 — 30th Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro – Curta Cinema, Brazil
2020 — 18th Bogoshorts – Bogotá Short Film Festival, Colombia
2019 — 35th Interfilm International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany
2019 — Backup and Beyond Film and Media Art Festival, Germany (Best Experimental Film)
2018 — ON ART – International Film Festival, Poland
2018 — Museum Ludwig, Budapest, Hungary (in exhibition)
2017 — Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (Screening & artist talk, “Museum und Sammlung”)
2017 — Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany (Rendezvous – Screening)
2012 — IndieLisboa – International Independent Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 — BRNO Sixteen – International Short Fiction Film Festival, Brno, Czech Republic
2009 — Young Cinema Art Polen, Poland
2007 — Internationales Filmfestival Mechernich, Germany (1. Preis Doku & Experimentalfilm)
2007 — Filmfest Düsseldorf, Germany
2007 — Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Germany
2006 — interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany (2. Preis Deutscher Wettbewerb)