Barbara Wolfram is a Vienna-based filmmaker, writer, and film scholar whose work explores the intersections of social class, labour, political polarization and resistance. Drawing on (auto)biographical experience and questions of family, motherhood, and fatherhood, she creates films that fuse intimate observation with a socio-political lens.

Before turning to film, she spent eight years as a theatre director and writer, staging work at venues including Volkstheater Vienna, Schauspielhaus Vienna and Dschungel Vienna, among others. This background in live performance shapes her cinematic approach, with a focus on rhythm, presence, and the politics of representation.

Her short films Walter L. (Special Mention Diagonale 2025; VIS 2025), Diamond & Narcissus (Diagonale 2025) and Barricades (2026) continue her exploration of personal narratives set against shifting political landscapes. Wolfram holds a PhD in film studies and is currently a postdoctoral artistic researcher at the Film Academy Vienna / mdw. Her artistic research has taken her to the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and ENS Louis Lumière in Paris, HDK Valand Academy in Gothenburg and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Barbara`s dissertation research was honored with the Award of Excellence 2023 (Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research) and the Herta and Kurt Blaukopf Award 2024 (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna).