Katharina Kastner is an Austrian documentary film director based in Brussels. Her interest in individual and political transformations, has led her to gain a Bachelor in Politics and Psychology before graduating from Doc Nomads, a mobile film school taking place in Budapest, Lisbon and Brussels. After working as a researcher, production manager and assistant director for fiction features, documentaries and in advertising, her first short documentary Portraits of the Hill which she co-directed in Hungary, was awarded best documentary in the Nuevas Olas Film Fest of Santander, Spain and selected for the muestra international de documental de Bogota, Columbia.