Born in Germany in 1967, Maria Speth is a director, screenwriter and producer. She began her career as an assistant editor and director in film and television, making her first short film, Barfuss, in 1999. Her feature film debut was with the film In den Tag Hinein, in 2001, awarded at the Rotterdam Film Festival. In 2007, Madonas debuted at the Berlin Film Festival, where she would return with Daughters in 2014. Speth is associated with the group known as the “Berlin School”, composed of several German filmmakers who emerged in the 1990s, giving new impetus to cinema German. Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021) is her latest work.