The annual motif for the 32nd Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg was visualized in 2026 by Esra Rotthoff, who has now designed the artwork and trailer for the sixth consecutive year and, this year, expanded her work from photography into painting.
The face of this year’s festival edition, actress and director Maria Schrader, will attend with her feature film VOR DER MORGENRÖTE and take part in an in-depth conversation. She will also personally present the drama AIMÉE & JAGUAR as part of the JFBB education program for school students.
About Esra Rotthoff:
For over a decade, Esra Rotthoff, a German-Turkish and theoretically Jewish Berliner, has been working with various cultural institutions to visually redefine politically and socially relevant content in the field of photography and design. In this way, aestheticizations of contemporary re-contextualizations, socially relevant topics are created in her own visual language. The overall image, consisting of photography, graphics and sometimes painting, serves the various houses (including the Berlin Gorki Theater) as image advertising. The conceptual approach is experimental, interdisciplinary and empirical.
Here is the website: ESRA ROTTHOFF artist, art direction, photography