Lindi Dedek (they/them) is a queer emerging filmmaker, poet, and performer based in Berlin. Their artistic practice spans moving image, analog film, and performance. A graduate of film production and screenplay from FAMU and Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, they also hold an MA in Gender Studies and trained in comedy acting in Italy and France.
Lindi’s co-directed short film Černobílá won the Tribeca If/Then Award and has been screened at over 70 international festivals. They have been awarded fellowships such as the Robert-Bosch German-Arab Prize, GLEN (Benin), and Deconfining (Tanzania, Poland). Recently Lindi was a mentee at the Schule Friedl Kubelka for experimental film in Vienna and a performer-in-residence at Acud Theater in Berlin.
Their prose and poetry have been published in journals such as Aji, Stadtsprachen, Tint Journal, and Whiskey Tit. In addition to screenings at film festivals, Lindi’s work has been exhibited or is forthcoming at galleries and theaters including Plato Ostrava, Fluxibell (Berlin), the Survival Art Festival (Wroclaw), and Nafasi Art Space (Dar es Salaam).