Directing

Julia von Heinz

Born 1976-06-03 · Berlin, Germany

Julia von Heinz (born 3 June 1976 in West Berlin) is a German film director and screenwriter. From 2005 to 2006, Julia von Heinz worked as a personal assistant for the director and professor Rosa von Praunheim at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. Her debut feature film Nothing Else Matters, a coming of age-drama, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007, was shown at numerous international festivals and won awards. After that, she shot the documentary film Standesgemäß (2008) about single aristocratic women. In 2012, her children's film Hanni & Nanni 2, based on the series of novels by Enid Blyton, was released successfully in cinemas. Together with the directors Tom Tykwer, Chris Kraus, Robert Thalheim and Axel Ranisch, she made the documentary film Pink Children (2012) about their common mentor Rosa von Praunheim. Also in 2012 von Heinz received her Ph.D. with a concentration in Film and teaches at the University of Television and Film Munich. In addition to teaching, she continues to make films. Her greatest international success to date was And Tomorrow the Entire World (2020). In this feature film she processed her own experiences as a teenager in Antifa.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Treasure poster
6.5

A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.

Treasure

2024

Treasure poster
6.5

A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.

Treasure

2024

Treasure poster
6.5

A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.

Treasure

2024

She Gets It from Me poster
NR

Nicky's engagement celebration turns into a search for her pill-popping, ex-punk rocker birth mother, Charlotte. Together, the two embark on an anarchic mother-and-daughter journey to reconnect.

She Gets It from Me

And Tomorrow the Entire World poster
6.0

Luisa, a 20-year-old law student, joins a cell of the Antifa group when she and her friends Alfa and Lenor get to know about an upcoming attack planned by a local neo-Nazi gang. As they try to find out more, the three youngsters delve deeper into the scene linked to right-wing movements and their political connections, to the point where they will understand how much they are willing to go further, in order to defend their own beliefs.

And Tomorrow the Entire World

2021

And Tomorrow the Entire World poster
6.0

Luisa, a 20-year-old law student, joins a cell of the Antifa group when she and her friends Alfa and Lenor get to know about an upcoming attack planned by a local neo-Nazi gang. As they try to find out more, the three youngsters delve deeper into the scene linked to right-wing movements and their political connections, to the point where they will understand how much they are willing to go further, in order to defend their own beliefs.

And Tomorrow the Entire World

2021

And Tomorrow the Entire World poster
6.0

Luisa, a 20-year-old law student, joins a cell of the Antifa group when she and her friends Alfa and Lenor get to know about an upcoming attack planned by a local neo-Nazi gang. As they try to find out more, the three youngsters delve deeper into the scene linked to right-wing movements and their political connections, to the point where they will understand how much they are willing to go further, in order to defend their own beliefs.

And Tomorrow the Entire World

2021

Meine Väter poster
NR

Julia von Heinz’s 80-year-old father dies completely unexpectedly. From his estate, the filmmaker discovers that the former reserve officer was homosexual and had led a double life. The director seeks out Rosa von Praunheim, an icon of the gay movement, to talk about it. The outcome is the portrait of an extraordinary, lonely man.

Meine Väter

2021

No artwork available
NR

When Helen finds out about her husband Jörg's affair with her younger coworker, she is faced with the shambles of her previous life. At first, she tries everything she can to hold on to their relationship, because the desire for freedom would come at too high a price. Only when Helen becomes downright invisible does she realize that she has to let go of old role models.

September Oktober

Doris poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Doris

2002

Doris poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Doris

2002

I'm Off Then poster
6.1

Based on the book "Ich bin dann mal weg" by Hape Kerkeling where the author describes his journey on the Way of St. James, a pilgrimage route, and the people he encounters there.

I'm Off Then

2015

Lucie & Vera poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lucie & Vera

2003

Lucie & Vera poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lucie & Vera

2003

Lucie & Vera poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lucie & Vera

2003

Noble Commitments poster
NR

Three noble single women live between traditional demands and everyday life, between a castle and a prefabricated building, torn apart by their parents' expectations and their own deeply internalised demands. They are outsiders in the microcosm of the German aristocracy. If they want to continue to belong to the aristocracy, they have to marry an aristocratic man or stay single, because within the aristocracy the "male principle" applies.

Noble Commitments

2008

Noble Commitments poster
NR

Three noble single women live between traditional demands and everyday life, between a castle and a prefabricated building, torn apart by their parents' expectations and their own deeply internalised demands. They are outsiders in the microcosm of the German aristocracy. If they want to continue to belong to the aristocracy, they have to marry an aristocratic man or stay single, because within the aristocracy the "male principle" applies.

Noble Commitments

2008

Noble Commitments poster
NR

Three noble single women live between traditional demands and everyday life, between a castle and a prefabricated building, torn apart by their parents' expectations and their own deeply internalised demands. They are outsiders in the microcosm of the German aristocracy. If they want to continue to belong to the aristocracy, they have to marry an aristocratic man or stay single, because within the aristocracy the "male principle" applies.

Noble Commitments

2008

No artwork available
NR

Three women of one family must learn to break their old patterns in order to find themselves.

Das Kind in dir muss Heimat finden

No artwork available
NR

Three women of one family must learn to break their old patterns in order to find themselves.

Das Kind in dir muss Heimat finden

Hanni & Nanni 2 poster
6.6

The summer break is over and the twins returned to Lindenhof. That has now changed a lot. Because Mrs Theobald had to travel, Mademoiselle Bertoux has taken the lead.

Hanni & Nanni 2

2012

Isolation poster
NR

A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic. Among them, “Two Fathers”, directed by Julia von Heinz (20’). After the death of his father, Hans-Michael von Heinz, the director finds out the truth about her parent true sexual identity. In order to know more, she starts emailing persons who got to know him over the last years, among them his closest friend, director Rosa von Praunheim.

Isolation

2021

Isolation poster
NR

A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic. Among them, “Two Fathers”, directed by Julia von Heinz (20’). After the death of his father, Hans-Michael von Heinz, the director finds out the truth about her parent true sexual identity. In order to know more, she starts emailing persons who got to know him over the last years, among them his closest friend, director Rosa von Praunheim.

Isolation

2021

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Avalon