ABOUT

Barbara Wolfram is a Vienna-based filmmaker, writer, and film scholar with a background in psychology whose work explores the intersection of social class on (auto)biographical experiences and narrations. She creates films that combine research led observations with a socio-political lens.

Before turning to film, she spent several years working as a theatre director and writer, staging work at venues including Volkstheater Vienna, Schauspielhaus Vienna and Dschungel Vienna, among others.
Her short films Walter L. (2025), Diamond & Narcissus – نرگس و الماسs (2025), Dina (2026) and Barricades (2026) continue her exploration of biographical narratives set against shifting political landscapes.

As her feature film debut, Barbara is currently developing All the Hours We Keep with the political scientist and sociologist Paulus Wagner and producer Jakob Serdaroglu (Golden Girls Film). The project has received support from the Austrian Film Institute (ÖFI), TorinoFilmLab, Ekran+, and Drehbuchforum Wien. In parallel, she wrote the screenplay Wirbel, which received the first-stage “If She Can See It, She Can Be It” Award from Drehbuchforum Wien. Barbara also co-hosts the diverse-feminist film podcast Ned Wuascht with film scholar, curator and critic Bianca J. Rauch.

Barbara holds a PhD in film and media studies from Film Academy Vienna/ mdw after having finished her Master in Psychology at the University of Vienna. She is a postdoctoral artistic researcher at the Film Academy Vienna / mdw and has recently returned from her exchange at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard University, MA. Research and teaching residencies have 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 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).