Hanna Slak

Hanna Slak, German-Slovenian, born in Warsaw, based in Berlin, is a film director and writer who moves between several native languages. She has written and directed feature films for the big screen (Blind Spot, 2001; Teah, 2007; The Miner, 2017) as well as documentary films and experimental shorts. Her films are screened at festivals such as Berlinale, Rotterdam, Locarno, Warsaw, and others. RUDAR // The Miner was the Slovenian entry for the 2018 Foreign Language Academy Awards (the Oscars). KEIN WORT // Not a Word is Slak's fourth cinema feature and her first German language film. She is a mother of two children, born 2007 and 2017.