FELIZITAS
HOFFMANN
THE WEIGHT OF THE MOON
LOVE AT FIRST BYTE
THE BIG BUBBLE
TAKE ME HOME
the weight of the moon
2025
In the beginning was the sea
and the wind,
broken rocks and trees.
And Gemma and Sidra.
Words come and go.
Then the language between them disappears.
Inspired by the poems and abstract paintings of the artist Etel Adnan.
with Ru Hajjar & Theresa Hoffmann
Directed by Felizitas Hoffmann Director of photography: Rita Hajjar
Camera Assistant & Gaffer: Elsy Hajjar
Assistant Director & Costume Design: Amrei Kapfhammer
Editor: Melanie Jilg
Sound Design & Mixing: Cornelia ‘Nelly’ Böhm
Color Grading: Nicholas Coleman
Awards
Student Academy Award (Finalist)
Festivals
26th International Izmir Short Film Festival, Izmir, TR
2022
With security camera footage obtained via a CCTV data request, this short distorts reality to embody a missed connection between a lovelorn surveillance system and a passenger.
Directed by Felizitas & Theresa Hoffmann
Sound Design & Mixing: Philip Hutter
voice-over: Nina Moog
Awards
19. Fünf Seen Filmfestival, Gauting, DE - Video-Art-Award
Filmy zakwalifikowane do Konkursu Międzynarodowego Euroshorts, Warsaw, Poland - Best Experimental Film
Festivals (selection)
Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), Tallinn, Estonia
ALCINE 52 - Festival Germany Cine Germany Alcalá Germany Henares, Madrid, Spain
ShorTS International Film Festival, Trieste, Italy
True/False Film Fest, Columbia, Missouri, US
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
2022
It was a large room. Full of people. All kinds. And they were all asking Google the same question:
"Am I...
... a joke to you
... depressed
... pregnant
... a sociopath test"
Gathered footage of phones, laptops and surveillance cameras reveal one story. As a young white woman in London leaves a digital trail derived from her daily life, the material leaves behind a clearer and more concrete story.
Through programming, sexism and structural racism are passed on to artificial intelligence who analyse personal data and have real consequences on peoples’ lives.
But what happens if these informations get out of hand?
Directed by Felizitas Hoffmann
Editor: Melanie Jilg
Sound Design: Cornelia ‘Nelly’ Böhm
take me home
2022
Directed by Maximilian Bungarten & Felizitas Hoffmann
Produced by Maximilian Bungarten
Director of photography: Tom Otte
Styling: Marleen Johow
Hair & make-up : Sabrina Reuschl
Color grading: Florian Staerk
Awards
ADC Talent Award 2022
The Young Ones Student Awards - Student Silver Cube 2023
Berlin Commercial - New Generation Award (Nominatation) 2023
Festivals
Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2022
Fashion Film Festival Milan 2023
Berlin Fashion Film Festival 2023
felizitas.hoffmann@posteo.net
Felizitas Hoffmann studied Social and Cultural Anthropology as well as Art, Music, and Theatre Studies before pursuing a degree in Documentary Film Directing at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich).
Her films have been screened at numerous international festivals, including the True/False Film Fest, the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, and the Black Nights Film Festival. Her graduation film the weight of the moon (2025) was among the finalists for the Student Academy Awards and celebrated its national premiere at the Izmir Short Film Festival.
Together with Theresa Hoffmann, she co-directed love at first byte, which received the Best Experimental Film Award at the EUROSHORTS International Film Festival and won the Video Art Prize at the Fünf Seen Film Festival in 2025.
In 2017, she co-founded the art collective hybris with Theresa Hoffmann and Natalia Jobe. The collective’s works have been presented in international solo and group exhibitions. In 2023, their project fake it till you break it received the Kirch Scholarship for Media Art and was nominated for the Prize for New Narrative Formats at DOK.fest München. Her work ich lag noch nie so gut (2025) was among the finalists for the VIDEODOX Award.
In addition, Felizitas Hoffmann was nominated for the 2025 Federal Prize for Art Students (Bundespreis für Kunststudierende).
Since 2019, she has been co-running the temporary art space babyrichman together with Dr. Marie Seidl.
Download full CV here.
Check out hybris here.
Imprint
Documentary Film & Television Journalism (Dipl.), University of Television and Film (HFF)
2025
Social & Cultural Anthropology / Art, Music & Theatre Studies (BA), University of Munich (LMU)
Awards & Nominations (selection)
Student Academy Award, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, Beverly Hills, US (Finalist)
2025
Förderpreis für Videokunst, VIDEODOX, Germany (Finalist)
2025
Video-Art-Award, Fünf- Seen- Filmfestival, Germany
2025
Bundespreis für Kunststudierende/ Federal Prize for Art Students, Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (Finalist)
2025
Award for New Narrative Formats, DOK.digital/DOK.fest Munich, Germany (Finalist)
2024
Best Experimental Film - “The Marshal of Pomorskie Voivode Award, Warsaw, Poland
2023
Student Silver Cube - The Young Ones Student Awards, New York, US
2023
ADC Talent Award: “Silberner Nagel”, Berlin, Germany
2022
"Medienkunst der Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München, ermöglicht durch die Kirch Stiftung und Frau Regina Hesselberger", Munich, Germany
2023
Salzamt, FMR Festival (March), Linz, Austria
2019
Scholarships
Oskar- Karl- Forster- Scholarship, Munich, Germany
2024
"Medienkunst der Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film Munich, ermöglicht durch die Kirch Stiftung und Frau Regina Hesselberger", Munich, Germany
2023
"Young Art and New Ways" by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, Munich, Germany
2021
Special Mention, "Medienkunst der Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film Munich, ermöglicht durch die Kirch Stiftung und Frau Regina Hesselberger", Munich, Germany
2020
Club Quarantäne Berlin | Exhibition and Project Funding, Germany
2020
"PROMOS", German Academy Exchange Service (DAAD), EG/ Germany
2018