Dr. Rada Bieberstein is a lecturer in film and media studies at Tübingen University. She has graduated in history of art and film studies; and has conducted research at the State University of Moscow, the National Art Academy of Sofia and the University of Bologna; she is fluent in five European languages. Presently, she co-leads an international research project on aging and film and the academic online-encyclopaedia of female film directors, Affa-Portal.de. She is the founder of the internet platform on Bulgarian art, Ivan-Milev.com. Dr. Bieberstein has published books and articles on Eastern and Western European film; modern art and art criticism; Italian genre and auteur film of the 1960s; actors and actresses such as Vladimir Visotsky and Monica Vitti; the representation of identity and aspects of history, gender and the city in film. Current research includes neuroscience, aging and film; historical film criticism and film theory; art and film; representation of identity, gender, memory and the body in film.