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Antonia Kilian is a director, cinematographer and producer. She studied Visual Communication as well as Art and Media at the Berlin University of Arts. She studied Cinematography at the University in Potsdam Babelsberg and at the ISA in Havana, Cuba. She has served as DoP for numerous films, both shorts and feature-length, fiction and documentary that have screened at festivals worldwide. She has created video installations and directed several documentary shorts. She lived in Northeast Syria for over one year, where, during this time she shot the footage for her directorial feature-length documentary debut, The Other Side of the River. She currently lives and works between Kassel and Berlin and manages her own production company, Pink Shadow Films.