ROMUALD KARMAKAR
Romuald Karmakar, born 1965, works with both feature film (“Der Totmacher,” “Manila,” “Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder”), and documentary film (“Warheads,” “Das Himmler-Projekt,” “Hamburger Lektionen,” “Villalobos,” “If I Think of Germany at Night”).
His work has been honored at major international film festivals (Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Toronto) and has been presented in several retrospectives (Austrian Film Museum; BAFICI, Buenos Aires; Jeonju IFF, South Korea; Cinéma du Réel, Paris).
In 2008, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, selected his film “Das Himmler-Projekt” as one of “250 important works of art that have been acquired by the Museum since 1980.”
In 2013 Karmakar was invited, together with Ai Weiwei, Santu Mofokeng and Dayanita Singh, to represent Germany at the 55th Art Biennale in Venice (German Pavilion).
In 2014 he was awarded the DEFA-Foundation Award for “outstanding achievement in German cinema.”
In 2017 he was invited to participate at “documenta 14,” which took place in Athens, Greece, and Kassel, Germany.
His latest work “The Invisible Zoo”, a feature length documentary on the Zurich Zoo, one of the leading zoological gardens in Europe, had it’s World Premiere at Berlinale 2024, Forum.
Romuald Karmakar, Harvard alumnus, is an elected member of the Academy of Arts Berlin.
He lives and works in Berlin.
