Filmmaker & Visual Artist
Living and working between Berlin and Portugal, she creates filmic works exploring science, ecology and embodied storytelling, drawn to the potential of cinema as a tool to restore our relational imagination. Growing up immersed in dance, she often collaborates with choreographers and dancers.
Stella graduated from Berlin University of the Arts, specializing in Moving Image, and also studied Audiovisual Comminication at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon and at the European Film College in Denmark.
Recent works include the short film Water Tongue / Língua D’Água (2025), a 19-minute exploration of communication across human and non-human forms that premiered at IndieLisboa 2025.
Her works have been presented at IndieLisboa, Curtas Vila do Conde, Waking Life Festival, Labocine, This Is Short, Dock 11, Sophiensaele, ACUD Galerie, SOMA Gallery Berlin, Klein Space Chiado, Bendita Tú Festival de Cine, and Hackesche Höfe Kino.
Stella also mentors video projects and has taught somatic cinema in the Live Art Forms Master’s program in Nuremberg with Anna Nowicka, as well as documentary filmmaking for a youth group at Manege in Neukölln, Berlin with Feelings Collective.
Living and working between Berlin and Portugal, she creates filmic works exploring science, ecology and embodied storytelling, drawn to the potential of cinema as a tool to restore our relational imagination. Growing up immersed in dance, she often collaborates with choreographers and dancers.
Stella graduated from Berlin University of the Arts, specializing in Moving Image, and also studied Audiovisual Comminication at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon and at the European Film College in Denmark.
Recent works include the short film Water Tongue / Língua D’Água (2025), a 19-minute exploration of communication across human and non-human forms that premiered at IndieLisboa 2025.
Her works have been presented at IndieLisboa, Curtas Vila do Conde, Waking Life Festival, Labocine, This Is Short, Dock 11, Sophiensaele, ACUD Galerie, SOMA Gallery Berlin, Klein Space Chiado, Bendita Tú Festival de Cine, and Hackesche Höfe Kino.
Stella also mentors video projects and has taught somatic cinema in the Live Art Forms Master’s program in Nuremberg with Anna Nowicka, as well as documentary filmmaking for a youth group at Manege in Neukölln, Berlin with Feelings Collective.
Filmmaker & Visual Artist
Living and working between Berlin and Portugal, she creates filmic works exploring science, ecology and embodied storytelling, drawn to the potential of cinema as a tool to restore our relational imagination. Growing up immersed in dance, she often collaborates with choreographers and dancers.
Stella graduated from Berlin University of the Arts, specializing in Moving Image, and also studied Audiovisual Comminication at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon and at the European Film College in Denmark.
Recent works include the short film Water Tongue / Língua D’Água (2025), a 19-minute exploration of communication across human and non-human forms that premiered at IndieLisboa 2025.
Her works have been presented at IndieLisboa, Curtas Vila do Conde, Waking Life Festival, Labocine, This Is Short, Dock 11, Sophiensaele, ACUD Galerie, SOMA Gallery Berlin, Klein Space Chiado, Bendita Tú Festival de Cine, and Hackesche Höfe Kino.
Stella also mentors video projects and has taught somatic cinema in the Live Art Forms Master’s program in Nuremberg with Anna Nowicka, as well as documentary filmmaking for a youth group at Manege in Neukölln, Berlin with Feelings Collective.
Living and working between Berlin and Portugal, she creates filmic works exploring science, ecology and embodied storytelling, drawn to the potential of cinema as a tool to restore our relational imagination. Growing up immersed in dance, she often collaborates with choreographers and dancers.
Stella graduated from Berlin University of the Arts, specializing in Moving Image, and also studied Audiovisual Comminication at Escola Artística António Arroio in Lisbon and at the European Film College in Denmark.
Recent works include the short film Water Tongue / Língua D’Água (2025), a 19-minute exploration of communication across human and non-human forms that premiered at IndieLisboa 2025.
Her works have been presented at IndieLisboa, Curtas Vila do Conde, Waking Life Festival, Labocine, This Is Short, Dock 11, Sophiensaele, ACUD Galerie, SOMA Gallery Berlin, Klein Space Chiado, Bendita Tú Festival de Cine, and Hackesche Höfe Kino.
Stella also mentors video projects and has taught somatic cinema in the Live Art Forms Master’s program in Nuremberg with Anna Nowicka, as well as documentary filmmaking for a youth group at Manege in Neukölln, Berlin with Feelings Collective.
