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Chiara Fleischhacker
Biography
1993 Chiara Fleischhacker was born in Kassel (Germany),
raised in Erfurt, where she went to a sport boarding school as an 800m runner.
After her high school degree she went for half an year to Cuba, 2012 she started studying psychology in Freiburg, cancelled the studies 2014 to finally become a director.
2015 she started the studies of direction documentary at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
There she realized two short documentaries about the German prison system and an experimental short about a triathlete.
Since 2017 she dedicated herself to the fiction storytelling. She made an exchange year at la fémis Paris in 2017 where she directed her first fiction short, which went on several international film festivals and won awards. Her latest shortfilm produced by Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris was screened on ARTE and on international festivals like BFI Future or European Film Festival Lille.