FILMOGRAPHY (Selection)

2022 Writer, Director & Cinematographer „Pieces of Motherhood“

2019 Writer, Director & Cinematographer „Because We Dreamt of Flying“

2015 Co-Author & Director „Die Stille“

2014 Writer & Director „Das Alte Böse Wir“

2013 Writer & Director short film „Mit Haut und Haaren“

2012 Writer, Director & Co-Illustrator animation film „Ezrah“

2011 Co- Dirrector & Cinematographer „We Were Strangers“

2010 Writer & Director „Jesse’s Tracks“

IN DEVELOPMENT

2025 Writer “Die Fremden in Uns” - Film

2025 Writer “V für Von” - Film

2025 Writer “Nomad” - Series

2023 Writer “The Good Life” - Film

Born in 1988, Lily grew up in Germany, the US, and Australia. She earned her B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 2010. After several internships in New York, she returned to Germany to study fiction directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, where she made multiple award-winning short films. She graduated in 2018 with her first feature film, Because We Dreamt of Flying, which she wrote, directed, and shot. The film premiered at the International Hofer Filmtage in 2019.

Whether writing, photographing, or directing, Lily uses each medium to lovingly turn our gaze toward what we’d rather not see. With tenderness and a sharp sense of humor, she breaks with expectations, coaxes the invisible to the surface, and seeks the lovable in all our absurdity, contradictions, and darkest longings.

She's fluent in English and German and can sprinkle in a little Spanish too.

Lily lives in Munich with her partner and their two children. She is currently developing several projects and teaches as a mentor for fiction directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

2024-2025 Drehbuchwerkstatt München Stipendiat

2019 Internationale Hofer Film Tage (In Competition, BWDOF)

2016 Camerimage Festial (In Competition, Die Stille)

2016 Max Ophüls Preis (Die Stille)

2016 Silver Dinosaur at Etiuda & Anima Film Festival (Die Stille)

2015 Grand Prix Award at Kyoto International Student Film Festival (DABW)

2015 Best Short Fiction at A Corto di Donne (DABW)

2015 Best in Fest Winner at Le Petit Claps (Das Alte Böse Wir)

2011 Finalist in Los Angeles Women’s Film Festival (JT)

2010 Silver Award for Student Films at the California Film Awards  (JT)

2010 Best of Fest Winner at the Santa Monica International Film Festival (JT)

2010 First Place Collegiate Long Form Narrative section Ft Lauderdale International Film Festival (Jesse’s Tracks)

2009 Harvard Artist Development Fellowship recipient

2006 National Advancement of the Arts Talent Recognition Search (USA)

2006 Queensland’s Most Promising New Filmmaker Award (Screen Queensland)