Tom Alesch, born in 1973, started his career as a freelance contributor to radio and television before becoming a documentary filmmaker. Since 1999 he has been working as a director and editor at the media department of Luxembourg's Ministry of Education, Children and Youth. His freelance work explores artists and other thought-provoking people, society and industry in earlier times, as well as a contemporary society in socio-ecological transition. He is a member of the Board of Directors of a Christian adult education centre with a focus on personality development and media literacy. He has been a jury member at the “Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt”, the youth scriptwriting competition of the “Luxembourg City Film Festival”, the cross-border video art project “D’Konschtkëscht” and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Documentary filmmaker
Country of origin
Luxembourg
Festivals
Festivals
Current issues
Mit einem jungen neuen Team unter der Leitung von Joanna Szymańska-Szcześniak und dem Programmdirektor Bartłomiej Pulcyn startete das Warschauer Filmfestival bei seiner 41. Ausgabe in gleich acht verschiedenen Spielstätten., so Holger Twele, Miglied der Ökumenischen Jury in Warschau 2025, in seinem Bericht.
Land of A Thousand and One Nights and Persian poetry, Iran has turned cinema into the art of suggestion: when speech is monitored, the image becomes a poem and editing a figure of style.
Events
16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2