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When at the audition for a TV talent show, sixteen-year-old Lea is asked, “Who are you and what makes you special?”, she is at a loss what to say and begins to look for a suitable self. Back home in provincial East Germany, things are complicated. Her parents broke up recently. Her grandparents are constantly bickering, worn down by the pressures of keeping the family hotel afloat. She looks up to her aunt, whose cultural aspirations don’t make her universally popular in her small town. And her best friend Bonny only has eyes for Lea’s cousin Edgar. As her TV appearance approaches and a camera crew comes to town to shoot the introductory reel, what home story can Lea stitch together from the fragments of her life?

Eva Trobisch was born in Berlin in 1983. After first experiences in theater and film, she began her directing studies at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) in 2009. During her studies, she made several short films that were shown and awarded at festivals, including "Wie du küsst" (2012), recipient of the Förderpreis des FilmFernsehFonds Bayern at the Regensburg Short Film Week.

Trobisch pursued her dramaturgical and literary work as a guest student at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in New York and completed a master's degree in screenwriting at the London Film School, where she wrote the screenplay for her feature film debut ALLES IST GUT (2018).

ALLES IST GUT, the sensitive portrait of a woman who represses and conceals a rape premiered at the Munich Film Festival, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize and the German Cinema New Talent Award. Trobisch received the New Talent Award for Best Director. Numerous other awards followed, including the prize for Best First Feature at the Locarno Film Festival, the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award, the German Film Critics' Award for Best Feature Film Debut, as well as directing awards in Thessaloniki, (Premier Plans Angers), the Stockholm Film Festival and the Hamptons International Film Festival, among others. In addition, Eva Trobisch was honored as a young talent as part of the Women in Motion program.

In the 2021/22 season, she made her debut as a theater director with a production of Heinrich von Kleist's "Penthesilea" at Theater Basel.

Her second feature film IVO (2024) had its world premiere at Berlinale in the Encounters section, where it was awarded the Heiner Carow Prize. In the same year, Eva Trobisch was named one of the "Directors to Watch" by the industry magazine Variety at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Trobisch writes and directs for film and theater and is a partner in the production company Trimafilm. In 2026, she will spend six months on a residency grant at Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul. She lives with her family in Berlin.

Selected Director’s Filmography:

2026  HOME STORIES / Etwas ganz Besonderes
2024  IVO
2019  ALL IS WELL
2012  WIE DU KÜSST (short)
2010  FÜNF STUNDEN MONTAG (short)