Editing Anne von Petersdorff (section)

==''Wanderlust: cuerpos en tránsito''==

Anne Von Petersdorff's first feature documentary was ''Wanderlust: cuerpos en tránsito'', co-directed, co-produced and edited with Argentine filmmaker María Pérez Escalá. Developed in connection with von Petersdorff's doctoral research, the film follows the two women during an overland and maritime journey from Cairo, Egypt, to Berlin, Germany. They travelled for approximately two and a half months without using aeroplanes, crossing numerous borders by land and sea.<ref name="MSUFeature">{{cite web |title=Critically Acclaimed Film Challenges Women Stereotypes |url=https://cal.msu.edu/news/critically-acclaimed-film-challenges-women-stereotypes/ |website=College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University |access-date=15 October 2026}}</ref>

The documentary is structured as a bi-autobiographical travel film. Its two directors appear as travellers, filmmakers and research participants, using cameras to examine their encounters as well as one another. Their different cultural backgrounds—von Petersdorff is German and Pérez Escalá is Argentine—create parallel perspectives on border crossing, cultural expectations and the embodied experience of travel. The work asks how moving through public and transnational spaces may be experienced differently by women and how the camera shapes the representation of those experiences.<ref name="ArgentinaLibrary">{{cite web |title=Wanderlust, cuerpos en tránsito |url=https://www.bn.gov.ar/agenda-cultural/wanderlust-cuerpos-en-transito |website=Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno |access-date=15 October 2026}}</ref>

The film was completed and circulated internationally during the second half of the 2010s, with sources variously listing 2016 or 2017 as its production or release year. It was screened at festivals in Europe and Latin America and was broadcast on Argentine national television.<ref name="IMDbBiography" /> Festival appearances included FEMCINE in Santiago, Crossing Europe in Linz, the Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de La Plata, Mujeres en Foco in Buenos Aires, Travel FilmFest in Cyprus and work-in-progress presentations at documentary and film festivals in Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata.<ref name="OfficialFilmography">{{cite web |title=Yesterday / Film |url=https://www.annevonpetersdorff.com/yesterday/ |website=Anne von Petersdorff |access-date=15 October 2026}}</ref>

''Wanderlust: cuerpos en tránsito'' received an honourable mention at the Latin American Studies Association Film Festival in Barcelona in 2018. It also received the “La voz que rompe el silencio” prize at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Fusagasugá in Colombia.<ref name="OfficialFilmography" /> The documentary became the creative component of Anne von Petersdorff's dissertation and established the themes of gender, movement, cross-cultural encounter and collaborative authorship that informed her subsequent work.