Hans-Christian Schmid
Hans-Christian SCHMID (1965, Germany) is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, lecturer and co-founder of 23/5, which has produced many of his films. He studied documentary film at the Munich Film Academy followed by scriptwriting at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Schmid has won numerous awards, including Best Direction for Requiem (2006) and Storm (2009). He has guest lectured at film schools in Munich, Ludwigsburg, Cologne and Berlin, where he now lives. His latest film Wir sind dann wohl die Angehörigen (2022) had its international premiere at IFFR 2023.
Filmography
Sekt oder Selters (1989, doc), Das lachende Gewitter (1991, short), Baron Münchhausen (1991, short), Die Mechanik des Wunders (1992, doc), Himmel und Hölle (1994, tv), Nach Fünf im Urwald/After Five in the Forest Primeval (1996), 23 (1998), Crazy (2000), Lichter (2002), Requiem (2006), Sturm/Storm (2009), Was bleibt/Home for the Weekend (2012), Das Verschwinden/The Vanishing (2017), Wir sind dann wohl die Angehörigen/We Are Next of Kin (2022)
Hans-Christian Schmid at IFFR
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Wir sind dann wohl die Angehörigen
In March 1996, millionaire academic Jan Philipp Reemtsma was kidnapped. What did his family do while waiting for his return?
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Distant Lights
Widely praised, true-to-life drama about the no-man’s-land along the Oder on the border of Poland and Germany. Where refugees from the Ukrain