Q&A with director Katharina Otto-Bernstein moderated by festival curator David Schwartz

Saturday, Mar. 28 2026, 7:00

• A two-time Emmy nominated filmmaker, Katharina Otto-Bernstein most recently served as a producer of Joyland, winner of the Cannes Jury prize, the Independent Spirit Award and short-listed for the Academy Award in 2023 and Oh, Canada (Cannes 2024.) Nonfiction works include HBO documentaries Absolute Wilson, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, The Price of Everything and the documentaries Beautopia, When Night Falls Over Moscow, The Need of Speed, Obsessed with Light, and Crossing the River. Otto-Bernstein’s films have been screened at festivals worldwide, including Sundance, Berlin, Cannes Toronto and BFI London Film Festival. She has won the Silver Hugo (IFF Chicago) and has been nominated for Critics’ Choice Awards, Cinema Eye Award, and GLAAD Awards. Professional memberships include WGA, PGA, ATAS, IATAS, and NYWIFT.
• David Schwartz is a New York–based film curator and writer, and former Chief Curator at the Museum of the Moving Image. A recipient of the New York Film Critics Circle’s Career Achievement Award, he is currently Director of Film Programming at the Barrymore Film Center and President of The Film-makers’ Cooperative. He previously programmed the Paris Theater for Netflix and has worked with leading institutions including Film Forum, Metrograph, and the Kennedy Center. Schwartz is also the editor of David Cronenberg: Interviews and has taught film history at Purchase College and NYU.

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