---
name: "Nora Fingscheidt"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nora-fingscheidt"
fi1m_id: "nora-fingscheidt"
imdb_id: "nm3519173"
tmdb_id: 1304847
wikidata_id: "Q60741180"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "17 February 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:52:59.325560+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Nora Fingscheidt

## Identity

Nora Fingscheidt

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nora-fingscheidt
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nora-fingscheidt
- **IMDb ID:** nm3519173
- **TMDB ID:** 1304847
- **Wikidata ID:** Q60741180
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Fingscheidt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60741180, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3519173/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1304847

Director. Born 17 February 1983 in Braunschweig, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 17 February 1983, Braunschweig, Germany
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Fingscheidt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60741180, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3519173/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1304847

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Outrun*](https://film.one/film/the-outrun.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Nora Fingscheidt is a German director and screenwriter. Born on 17 February 1983 in Braunschweig, she studied scenic directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy from 2008 to 2017.

She began making short films and documentaries in the early 2010s. Her documentary *Without This World* (2017) won the Max Ophüls Prize. Her first feature, *System Crasher* (2019), premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it received the Alfred Bauer Prize, and won eight awards at the German Film Awards, including best picture, best screenplay and best director.

Fingscheidt directed the English-language feature *The Unforgivable* (2021), starring Sandra Bullock. She wrote and directed *The Outrun* (2024), an adaptation of Amy Liptrot's memoir.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Outrun* (2024), Fi1m 72, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-outrun.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Outrun* (2024), Writer, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-outrun.md)
- *The Unforgivable* (2021), Director
- *H24: 24 Hours, 24 Women, 24 Stories* (2021), series, Director
- *System Crasher* (2019), Director, Writer
- *Without This World* (2017), Director
- *The License* (2017), Director
- *Boulevard's End* (2014), Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Nora Fingscheidt](https://film.one/media/person/10910/gallery-106af580078b.jpg) Nora Fingscheidt — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MKr349572_Nora_Fingscheidt_%28The_Outrun%2C_Berlinale_2024%29.jpg/1280px-MKr349572_Nora_Fingscheidt_%28The_Outrun%2C_Berlinale_2024%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jaime Rosales, Thomas Logoreci, Iris Elezi, Stephan Bechinger, Nora Fingscheidt, Christine Dollhofer, Elfie Semotan, Joerg Burger and Neil Young at Crossing Eur (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/10910/gallery-ea1a3929ef16.jpg) Jaime Rosales, Thomas Logoreci, Iris Elezi, Stephan Bechinger, Nora Fingscheidt, Christine Dollhofer, Elfie Semotan, Joerg Burger and Neil Young at Crossing Eur (2019) — Bernhard Holub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Crossing_Europe_2019_Linz_BHO-9451.jpg/1280px-Crossing_Europe_2019_Linz_BHO-9451.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nora Fingscheidt presenting the movie System Crasher at the Berlinale 2019](https://film.one/media/person/10910/gallery-335d1305e3f9.jpg) Nora Fingscheidt presenting the movie System Crasher at the Berlinale 2019 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/MJK_331518_Nora_Fingscheidt_%28Systemsprenger%2C_Berlinale_2019%29.jpg/1280px-MJK_331518_Nora_Fingscheidt_%28Systemsprenger%2C_Berlinale_2019%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nora Fingscheidt presenting the movie System Crasher at the Berlinale 2019](https://film.one/media/person/10910/gallery-ab516a73ba09.jpg) Nora Fingscheidt presenting the movie System Crasher at the Berlinale 2019 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/MJK_331531_Nora_Fingscheidt_%28Systemsprenger%2C_Berlinale_2019%29.jpg/1280px-MJK_331531_Nora_Fingscheidt_%28Systemsprenger%2C_Berlinale_2019%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nora Fingscheidt presenting the movie System Crasher at the Berlinale 2019](https://film.one/media/person/10910/gallery-a3921a0a2b03.jpg) Nora Fingscheidt presenting the movie System Crasher at the Berlinale 2019 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/MJK_331540_Nora_Fingscheidt_%28Systemsprenger%2C_Berlinale_2019%29.jpg/1280px-MJK_331540_Nora_Fingscheidt_%28Systemsprenger%2C_Berlinale_2019%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nora Fingscheidt presenting the movie System Crasher at the Berlinale 2019](https://film.one/media/person/10910/gallery-d7546e25b23a.jpg) Nora Fingscheidt presenting the movie System Crasher at the Berlinale 2019 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/MJK_331582_Nora_Fingscheidt_%28Systemsprenger%2C_Berlinale_2019%29.jpg/1280px-MJK_331582_Nora_Fingscheidt_%28Systemsprenger%2C_Berlinale_2019%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 2 nominated

- Romy 2020: Romy (won)
- European Film Award for Best Film 2019: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *System Crasher*
- European University Film Award 2019: European University Film Award (nominated), for *System Crasher*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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