Biography
Robin Humboldt, born 1986 in Cologne, studied documentary and feature film directing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) from 2007 to 2014. During these years he realized several short fiction films and documentaries, some of which screened at international festivals. He made his feature film debut with his graduation film "Am Kölnberg" (2014), which he realized together with Laurentia Genske; the documentary about the notorious Cologne high-rise housing estate Am Kölnberg was awarded the HDF (Haus des Dokumentarfilms) sponsorship prize at the German Documentary Film Award in 2015 and received the BildKunst editing prize at the Cologne festival Filmplus.
In 2016, he received the Gerd Ruge Fellowship from the Film and Media Foundation NRW for the development of his next feature-length documentary "Zuhurs Töchter" ("Zuhur's Daugthers"). Filming began in May 2018 and once again, Humboldt worked with Laurentia Genske. "Zuhurs Töchter" portrays two Syrian transgender siblings who fled to Germany with their parents and find themselves in a constant conflict between cultures as they search for their own identities. Three years later, in April 2021, the film celebrated its world premiere at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto, Canada. A month later, it won the main Viktor prize at the Munich DOK.fest. The film was released in theaters in November 2021.