Monika Treut

Born in Mönchengladbach, Germany in 1954, she studied literature in Marburg/Lahn, graduating in 1982. She worked with video from 1976 and founded the Hyäne/Hyena film production company with Elfi Mikesch in 1984. She has directed numerous award-winning films about feminism, gender, sexuality and human rights in countries such as the USA, Brazil and Taiwan. Her comedy My Father is Coming (1991) was followed by a number of documentaries including Das rohe und das gekochte (The Rawand and the Cooked) which screened in Culinary Cinema in 2012. She also lectures at colleges and universities.
Selected filmography
direction 2016 | screenplay 2016 | producer 2016 |