Director of
Erinnerungen eines Waldes
Katharina Rabl studied German studies at the University of Vienna and, since 2016, documentary film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich. Since 2019, she has worked in the video team of Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as a freelance director, producer, and writer in Munich and Vienna. Her feature debut ERINNERUNGEN EINES WALDES, which she co-wrote with Karla Cristóbal, follows a doctoral student who returns to her hometown in Lower Austria after her grandmother's death and confronts an inherited piece of forest as well as her family's past; the film premiered at the Munich International Film Festival in 2026.
Films (selection): DEAD SEA DYING (2020), ICH KANN JEDER SAGEN, ABER WER SAGT WIR? (2022), ERINNERUNGEN EINES WALDES (2026)