Hilke Rönnfeldt, born by the Baltic Sea coast in Northern Germany with Danish-Icelandic roots, graduated as a screenwriter at Swedish Alma Education and as a film director at independent film school collective Super16 in Copenhagen. She is a Berlinale Talents, LIM – Less Is more, Oxbelly Episodic Lab and European Short Pitch alumna. Her latest film A Study of Empathy (En Undersøgelse af Empati) won the Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival 2023 in
the Pardi di Domani International Competition and is a candidate for the European Film Awards 2024.
Her debut miniseries Unmoored (Festmachen), which she wrote and directed, premiered in June 2024
on German public broadcaster NDR. She is also one of 10 emerging European film directors selected for European Film Promotion’s Future Frames programme 2024. Her projects have been collaborative works across the Nordics and Germany and revolve around life in rural communities, worlds of work, intimacy, and the sea. She has a strong faith in the poetic capabilities of the image.