Biography
Sönje Storm studied the history of science at Humboldt University Berlin and Université Aix-Marseille in France. After that, she started working as a journalist and filmmaker. She produced promotional films for various EU commissions and two documentary films for Deutsche Welle: "Wandlitz.Tokyo" (2009), about a 20-year-old woman from Wandlitz near Berlin who created a fascinating anime alter ego, and "Spurensuche - Deutsch-jüdisches Kulturerbe weltweit" ("Traces, German-Jewish Heritage in the world ", 2013). Her documentary "Der spanische Meister - Das schmutzige Geschäft mit gefälschten Antiken" (2016) aired on German and Swiss television channels. With "Die toten Vögel sind oben" ("Dead Birds Flying High"), which explores the photographic and museal nature documentaries of her peasant great-grandfather, Storm directed her first cinema documentary. At the DOK Leipzig Festival 2022, the film received the main prize in the German competition, and at the achtung berlin Festival 2023, it was awarded the prize of the Ecumenical Jury. It was also nominated for Best Documentary at the German Film Critics Association Awards 2022. The cinema release took place in August 2023.