Christiane Schmidt is a Berlin-based documentary filmmaker. She studied art and political science before specializing in cinematography at HFF Munich. Her film "Pădurea e ca muntele, vezi?", co-directed with Didier Guillain, follows the daily struggles of the family Lingurar over four seasons in the Romanian Carpathians—it premiered at the Berlinale Forum and won the Prize for Women Directors of Photography at IFFF Dortmund/Cologne. "Neighbors", made in collaboration with Pary El-Qalqili, uses 360° camera movements to interrogate the environments surrounding twelve refugee shelters in Germany targeted by arson attacks in 2015/2016. Her most recent film, “This Wall, This Monster“, traces the multiple scales of violence at the Polish-Belarusian border, and the people who stand up against it.
Languages
German | English | French | Romanian (basic)
Special Skills
Drone I Analog Film
Selected Credits
Man wird ja wohl noch schweigen dürfen I short film I D: Pary El-Qalqili I P: Pary El-Qalqili I Germany I 2026
Rente? Reicht nicht! I TV Documentary I D: Gregor Eppinger I P: ZDF 37°/ Flow media Company I 2025
All That Shines I documentary I D: Gregor Eppinger I P: Sehstern filmproduction, VidiFilm, Eppinger GbR I Germany, Poland I 2022
Abgebaggert – Leben ohne Kohle I TV documentary I D: Gregor Eppinger I P: doc.station, ZDF I Germany I 2021
Neighbors I documentary I D: Pary El-Qalqili, Christiane Schmidt I P: El-Qalqili/Schmidt filmproduction | Germany | 2019
The forest is like the mountains I documentary I D: Christiane Schmidt, Didier Guillain I P: HFF München I Germany I 2014
Ice Flowers I short feature I D: Susan Gordanshekan I P: NEUESUPER, Nominal Film, HFF Munich, BR I Germany I 2011
