Julia von Heinz

Julia von Heinz (born 3 June 1976 in West Berlin) is a German film director and screenwriter. From 2005 to 2006, she worked as a personal assistant for director and professor Rosa von Praunheim at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. Her debut feature film, *Nothing Else Matters*, a coming-of-age drama, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007, was shown at numerous international festivals, and won awards. She followed this with the documentary film *Standesgemäß* (2008), which focuses on single aristocratic women. In 2012, her children's film *Hanni & Nanni 2*, based on the series of novels by Enid Blyton, was released successfully in cinemas. Alongside directors Tom Tykwer, Chris Kraus, Robert Thalheim, and Axel Ranisch, she co-directed the documentary film *Pink Children* (2012) about their shared mentor Rosa von Praunheim. Also in 2012, von Heinz completed her Ph.D. with a concentration in Film and began teaching at the University of Television and Film Munich. She continues to direct films while teaching. Her greatest international success to date is *And Tomorrow the Entire World* (2020), a feature film that draws on her own experiences as a teenager in Antifa.