CLARA TRISCHILER
Writer, Director
Austrian documentary filmmaker whose films mostly deal with worlds that are separated by intangible borders, be they geographical or those of imagination or loss. After studying at the European Film College in Denmark, Clara Trischler lived in Israel, where she worked at the Yad Vashem Holocaust documentation archive, participated in films and film festivals, wrote articles about everyday life in Jerusalem and later shot her film “The First Sea”. After several film and festival jobs in Berlin and New York, she studied screenwriting at the Vienna Film Academy and the IUNA Buenos Aires, where she rediscovered her love of documentary film (which began with Hi8 camera experiments as a teenager). This led her to Berlin, where she studied documentary film directing at the Film University in Babelsberg. She received several grants and has been invited to various residencies and programs (Berlinale Talents, Visits to Ukraine for international artists, Multimadeira).