Rebecca Zehr

Rebecca Zehr is a German documentary filmmaker. She studied cultural anthropology, religious studies, psychology, and documentary filmmaking at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). She has worked with international film festivals and lived in Ecuador and Berlin. Her work often explores music, identity, and artistic or social legacies. Her films include Dead Sea Dying (2019), co-directed with Katharina Rabl, and A Sound of My Own (2021), which follows musician Marja Burchard. The film combines observational footage, archival material, and experimental sound and has screened at festivals such as DOK Leipzig and IDFA. Zehr has held teaching assignments at the HFF Munich in the field of media studies and has also worked as a lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Munich. In 2021, she realized the project RESHAPE together with Sophie Kindermann as a recipient of the media art scholarship of the University of Television and Film Munich. She participated in Berlinale Talents in 2023 and has been teaching documentary film at the HFF Munich since 2023.