| Screening Team |
| Competition Diagonale 2025 |

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Alex Gerbaulet (Filmmaker, Producer, DE)
Alex Gerbaulet is a Berlin-based filmmaker, producer and film educator. She has been part of the production platform pong film in Berlin since 2014. Her films which have won several awards, include SHIFT (2015), THE SLEEPER (2018), DEPTH OF FIELD (2017) and SUN UNDER GROUND (2022), both of which she made together with Mareike Bernien. Alex is a regular curator and jury member at film festivals such as the DOKfest Kassel, the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück and the Duisburger Filmwoche. This year she is co-director of the masterclass for professional media at the Werkleitz Gesellschaft in Halle, Germany.

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Matthias Lerf (Film journalist, CH)
Matthias Lerf was film journalist of the Swiss SonntagsZeitung and the Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich for 25 years. Before that, he studied ethnology and journalism in Bern and worked as a freelance film critic for various newspapers. Since February 2023, he has been working independently again as a writer and presenter of cinema events. He has an old love affair with Austria: in the 1980s, he was assistant director, assistant and actor in several short films by student Christof Schertenleib at the Vienna Film Academy.

Bianca Jasmina Rauch © Laura Rauch

Bianca Jasmina Rauch (Film journalist, Curator, AT)
Bianca Jasmina Rauch completed her studies at the Vienna Film Academy with a thesis on German and Austrian coming-of-age films (Widerständige Blicke: ‘Weibliche’ Identitätssuche im Coming-of-Age-Film). As a freelance film critic, she regularly writes for various publications, including the feminist online film magazine Filmlöwin, and is a member of the editorial staff of kolik.film and Jugend ohne Film. She also publishes the film podcast ‘Ned Wuascht’ together with Barbara Wolfram. Most recently, she worked as a curator for the Filmarchiv Austria and Female Tracks at the Programmkino Wels.