Jury DOK.edit Award – presented by Adobe 2025
For a long time, the finished film was created on the editing table. Even though the work processes are now digitalised, editing remains one of the most central and critical phases in the creation of every documentary film. To emphasise the importance of editing in documentary film, the DOK.edit Award - presented by Adobe 2025 will be awarded for the fifth time at DOK.fest München.
The award was developed in cooperation with Adobe, who are also the sponsors of the 5,000 euros prize. The award is intended to highlight the post-production of documentary films and honour the work of editors. Films with outstanding editing achievements are nominated.
Gisela Castronari-Jaensch
Lecturer in editing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Gisela Castronari-Jaensch studied art history in Graz and lives with her family in Munich. She worked as an editor for film and television productions and held lectureships at the HFF Munich. During this time, she worked for several years with Nicolas Humbert and Werner Prenzel on films such as NEBEL JAGEN, WOLFSGRUB, STEP ACROSS THE BORDER and MIDDLE OF THE MOMENT. She received the Hessian Film Award for the editing of STEP ACROSS THE BORDER. She was awarded the German Camera Prize for Best Editing for the films ROHE OSTERN and EXPERIMENTUM MUNDI. In collaboration with Tim Trageser, she edited television films such as WOHIN MIT VATER, DIE LEHRERIN, NEUENFELD MITKOMMEN and DER WEISSE ÄTHIOPIER.
Her work on DIE FRAU MIT DEN 5 ELEFANTEN earned her a nomination for the Edimotion montage art prize. She has been a senior lecturer in editing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2013.
Kaya Inan
Editor
As a 19-year-old actor in the cinema comedy ACHTUNG, FERTIG CHARLIE, he discovered his enthusiasm for the medium of film. After graduating from high school, he gained his first experience in the editing room as an assistant editor and decided to study editing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in 2006. During this time, he also spent a year studying abroad at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Since graduating in 2011 with his diploma film TRANSPAPA, he has been working as a freelance editor for feature and documentary films. His work has received several awards, including the Swiss Film Prize and the Bild-Kunst Editing Prize.
Yana Höhnerbach
Editor
Yana Höhnerbach has been working as a freelance editor since completing her bachelor's degree in image and sound editing at the international film school cologne (ifs). Her current projects include the documentary film ICH WILL ALLES - HILDEGARD KNEF (Luzia Schmid), which premiered at the Berlinale in 2025, and MEMORY WARS (Hendrik Löbbert). With TRAINED TO SEE - DREI FRAUEN UND EIN KRIEG (Luzia Schmid) she won the German Camera Award Editing 2024 for the editing. At Edimotion, she was awarded the Bild-Kunst Schnitt Preis Dokumentarfilm for her work on SEARCHING EVA (Pia Hellenthal) in 2020 and for BRUDER JAKOB (Elí Roland Sachs), and was nominated together with Mike Schlömer for her editing of AUF ANFANG (Georg Nonnenmacher) in 2022. In addition to her work as an editor, Yana Höhnerbach regularly works as a lecturer and tutor in the field of editing.
