Hannes Bruun is a Berlin-based Freelance Film Editor for feature films and documentaries.
Born in 1985 in Münster, he completed an apprenticeship for Media Design for Images and Sound in Cologne. From 2009 to 2016 he studied Film Editing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
Since 2010 he worked with directors such as Sandra Wollner, Philip Gröning, Nicole Vögele, Roderick Warich or Soleen Yusef on films, which have been shown and awarded at international film festivals.
His works include "The Police Officer's Wife" by Philip Gröning (Special Jury Award, Venice Film Festival 2013), "Closing Time" by Nicole Vögele (Cineasti del presente Special Jury Award, Locarno Film Festival 2018) or "The Trouble with being Born" by Sandra Wollner (Encounters Special Jury Award, Berlin Film Festival 2020).
For his work on "The Trouble with being Born" he was awarded for Best Artistic Editing of a Feature Film at the Diagonale 2020, nominated for the Edimotion Editing Award 2021 and the Best Editing category at the German Critics Association Awards 2021. For his work on "The Landscape and the Fury" he won the Edimotion Documentary Editing Award 2025.
Since 2020 he is also working as a guest lecturer at film and art schools, such as DFFB Berlin, Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and HfBK Dresden. He is a member of the Federal Association of Film Editing, the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy.
Born in 1985 in Münster, he completed an apprenticeship for Media Design for Images and Sound in Cologne. From 2009 to 2016 he studied Film Editing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
Since 2010 he worked with directors such as Sandra Wollner, Philip Gröning, Nicole Vögele, Roderick Warich or Soleen Yusef on films, which have been shown and awarded at international film festivals.
His works include "The Police Officer's Wife" by Philip Gröning (Special Jury Award, Venice Film Festival 2013), "Closing Time" by Nicole Vögele (Cineasti del presente Special Jury Award, Locarno Film Festival 2018) or "The Trouble with being Born" by Sandra Wollner (Encounters Special Jury Award, Berlin Film Festival 2020).
For his work on "The Trouble with being Born" he was awarded for Best Artistic Editing of a Feature Film at the Diagonale 2020, nominated for the Edimotion Editing Award 2021 and the Best Editing category at the German Critics Association Awards 2021. For his work on "The Landscape and the Fury" he won the Edimotion Documentary Editing Award 2025.
Since 2020 he is also working as a guest lecturer at film and art schools, such as DFFB Berlin, Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and HfBK Dresden. He is a member of the Federal Association of Film Editing, the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy.
