Cécile Tollu-Polonowski studied German Studies and Culture Management in Paris, Berlin and Saarbrücken. She joined the Berlinale Forum in 2007 and worked as a programme consultant from 2011 to 2019. From 2011 until 2016, she studied Film Producing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) and worked as a film editor for the magazine Berlin Poche. From 2015 to 2025, she worked as a producer at The Match Factory, where she was lucky to collaborate on films by Alice Rohrwacher, Karim Aïnouz, Pietro Marcello, Tatiana Huezo among others. She is a member of the editorial team of the German Magazine Revolver, Zeitschrift für Film, and serves as a programme advisor for the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg.