Kim Münster

Kim Münster is a creative producer, director, and managing director of Treibsand Film. Her films deal with social, psychological, and political topics, ranging from cinema documentaries to short films. She studied camera (FH Dortmund and CECC Barcelona) and is an alumna of the Mediengründerzentrum NRW, the ifs non-fiction masterclass, the Akademie für Kindermedien 2022/23, and the CoPro Rotterdam Lab 2025. She has been producing documentary formats for cinema, VOD, and in the field of youth education and awareness for 20 years. In addition to her work as a filmmaker, she has been leading film workshops with children (aged 10-14) and youth projects through the “Film Education and Cinema” program for 10 years. She is a member of the Förderverein Deutscher Kinderfilm (German Children's Film Association) and is involved in film policy on the board of filmbüro NW and AG DokWest. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about people in agriculture for Hanser Verlag and is working on another cinema documentary. Her short film “Federding” has been screened at numerous film festivals, including a nomination for Best Live Action Short at the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taiwan, won the Award of Pioneering at the FIRST Film Festival in China, the Audience Award at the Nowness Festival in Shanghai, the Weitblick Prize at the blicke Film Festival in Bochum, and won Best Film in the Chinese Category at the Beijing Intern. Short Film Festival and was screened at the Indie Shorts Awards Cannes. In 2020, she was nominated for the VFF Production Award at DokFest Munich with the film JOKER (original title: SPAẞMACHER). The feature-length documentary she produced, COMING AND GOING, was nominated for the First Steps Award 2015 and won 7 awards at international festivals worldwide, including “Best Documentary Director” at the Olympia Film Festival for Children & Young People and Best Cinematography in Mexico at the Oaxaca FilmFest. The film was included in the Sundance Institute.