director, producer, journalist

Benjamin Hindrichs is an award-winning journalist, director, producer and writer.

His films sit at the boundaries of non-fiction and explore bodies, landscapes and orality as archives where past and present fold into each other. His short documentary DARU/N has been invited to international film festivals such as San Sebastian and was preselected for the 2026 Goya Awards. His first feature film Sijniyya: The Clandestine Music of Sednaya is currently in postproduction. In 2025, he founded the production company El Gallo Amazónico Films.

His journalistic work focuses on extremism, conflict and migration. It has been published in, among others, ZEIT, Krautreporter, Al Jazeera English, Mongabay, Mediapart, Le Monde, La Repubblica, Follow the Money, Diari Ara, El Salto, and Daraj. In 2025, he published a book about the global rise of the far-right.

Born in 1995, Ben holds a B.A. in Governance and Public Policy from the University of Passau, and a M.A. in Journalism, Media and Globalisation from Aarhus University and Charles University Prague, while currently pursuing a Master’s in Creative Documentary at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He speaks German, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan, and is trained in OSINT, trauma-informed reporting and working in high-risk environments.

His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from, among others, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Journalismfund.eu, Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU), Earth Journalism Network, Heinz-Kühn-Foundation and Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.

Contact: b.hindrichs (at) proton.me