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, Soleen Yusef or Daniel Sager on films, which have been shown and awarded at international film festivals. Since 2020 he is working as a guest lecturer at film and art schools, such as DFFB Berlin, Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and HfBK Dresden.

His works include "The Police Officer's Wife" by Philip Gröning ("Special Jury Award" at the Venice Film Festival 2013), "Closing Time" by Nicole Vögele ("Cineasti del presente Special Jury Award" at the Locarno Film Festival 2018) or "The Trouble with being Born" by Sandra Wollner ("Encounters Special Jury Award" at the 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 and 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 was nominated for the "Edimotion Editing Award" 2025.

He is a member of the Federal Association of Film Editing, the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy.