| Screening team |
| Competition Diagonale 2027 |

Yun-hua Chen (DE/TW)
Yun-hua Chen is a Berlin-based film scholar, critic, curator and festival programmer from Taiwan. She holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, is associate editor of Film International, and contributes regularly to a range of other film publications. She serves on the selection committees for Berlinale Shorts, Berlinale Forum and DokuFest in Kosovo, as well as on the advisory board of the German Film Critics Association. She previously directed dokumentART and has served on juries at Vila do Conde, the Zürcher Filmpreis, Filmfest Hamburg and the Viennale.

Matthias Lerf (CH)
Matthias Lerf was film journalist of the Swiss SonntagsZeitung and the Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich for 25 years. Before that, he studied ethnology and journalism in Bern and worked as a freelance film critic for various newspapers. Since February 2023, he has been working independently again as a writer and presenter of cinema events. He has an old love affair with Austria: in the 1980s, he was assistant director, assistant and actor in several short films by student Christof Schertenleib at the Vienna Film Academy.eich verbindet ihn eine alte Liebe: In den 1980er-Jahren war er Regieassistent, Hilfskraft und Darsteller in mehreren Kurzfilmen des Studenten Christof Schertenleib an der Filmakademie Wien.

Bianca Jasmina Rauch (AT)
Bianca Jasmina Rauch completed her studies at the Vienna Film Academy with a thesis on German and Austrian coming-of-age films (Widerständige Blicke: ‘Weibliche’ Identitätssuche im Coming-of-Age-Film). As a freelance film critic, she regularly writes for various publications, including the feminist online film magazine Filmlöwin, and is a member of the editorial staff of kolik.film and Jugend ohne Film. She also publishes the film podcast ‘Ned Wuascht’ together with Barbara Wolfram. Most recently, she worked as a curator for the Filmarchiv Austria and Female Tracks at the Programmkino Wels.