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FILM

film work

PIECES

14 min, fiction drama, 2024 

Swimmer Elin finds herself at a crossroads after her girlfriend Alma persuades her to embark on a risky adventure.

​AWARDS:

  • Berlin Film Week - short film Jury Prize 'most original film' 2024

  • Leiden int. Filmfestival - winner 'Emerging Shorts competition' 2024

  • Connect Kurzfilmfestival - winner 'best short film' 2024

  • Hammer Kurzfilmnächte - winner 'best short film' 2024

  • Eat my Shorts Kurfilmfestival Hagen - NRW Award 2024

NOMINATIONS:

  • Bundesfestival junger Film - official selection 2024

  • SHORTS Trinationales Filmfestival - official selection 2025

  • FILMZ - Festival des deutschen Kinos Mainz - official selection 2024

  • Blackwood Filmfestival Freiburg - official selection 2024

  • Brighton Rocks Filmfestival (BIFA qualifying) - official selection 2024

  • Bruges int. Filmfestival - ON/OFF selection 2024

  • Valéncia Indie Filmfestival - official selection 2024

 

Cast - Leah Lavinia, Paula Winteler

Writer, director, producer - Klara Schmickler

Writer, DoP, producer, editor - Greta Blaudzun

Set designer - Lisa-Luna Pellny

costume designer - Naemi Jeng

Gaffer - Maximilian Riemer

Sounddesigner - Sarah Weiher & Florian Wulff

Subervised by - Prof. Oliver Schwabe (FH Dortmund)

WO DAS GRAS VIOLETT IST

32 min, fiction drama, 2024 

The growing friendship with the artist Chloe heals Leonie's old wounds, but not without setbacks.

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FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS:

  • Nominierung für den Deutschen Menschenrechts-Filmpreis 2024 - Kategorie 'Hochschule'

  • Awareness Filmfestival LA - Merit of Awareness Award

  • Together Unique Filmabend im Kölner Künstler:innen Theater

  • Filmvorführung zum Orange Day der RSH Düsseldorf

  • Gesichter der Gewalt - ZONTA Niederrhein, Klever Kinos

  • unsichtb:ART -  psych_ed, junge Stadt Köln

 

Cast - Cynthia Cosima Erhardt, Lisandra Bardél

Writer, director, producer - Klara Schmickler

DoP, producer - Sören Tebbe

Set designer - Lara Morr

Costume designer - Melina Hylla

Gaffer - Alissa Larkamp

Sounddesigner - Sarah Weiher

Editor - Julia Stauch

Composition - Lukas Lindner

Subervised by - Prof. Oliver Schwabe (FH Dortmund)

VERSTEHEN STATT VERGELTEN

6 min, fiction drama, 2019 

Annemarie is once again confronted with her pain

when she is on her way to meet her brother's murderer 

- so is he.

FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS:

  • Meraki Filmfestival Madrid - winner 'best student short' 2019

  • XXS Dortmunder Kurzfilmfestival - official selection 2019

  • parcours MSD (SoSe 2019) - Nomination 'best graduation project'

 

Cast - Thorsten Schmidt, Ann-Kathrin Schmidt

Writer, director, DoP, editor - Klara Schmickler

Supervised by - Prof. Dipl.-Des. Henning Tietz (Münster School of Design)

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GREETINGS FROM SEASIDE HEIGHTS

in postproduction, short documentary, 15 min

Like a Hurricane, a flood of tourists sweeps through the vacation town Seaside Heights in New Jersey every summer. For the locals, this brings financial opportunities - but at the same time great frustration.

A place full of ambivalence.

 

DoP, director, editor - Klara Schmickler

Sounddesigner - Johannes Grote

Colourgrading - Fabian Kahl

Supervised by - Prof. Oliver Schwabe (FH Dortmund)

SPREU + WEIZEN 
in postproduction, fiction short, 30 min 

 

When Skadi, who lives in a Catholic boarding school, and the unruly Niek meet on the Dutch border, the two create an escapist space between them, which is soon suffocated by reality.

Cast - Emily Lück, Victor IJdens, Ansgar Sauren, Gertje Forlong

Writer, director, producer - Klara Schmickler

DoP - Greta Blaudzun

Set designer - Marija Vogel

Costume designer - Merit Ottawa

Gaffer - Sebastian Berghaus

Sounddesigner - Lovis Töpke

Editor - Julia Stauch

Composition - Lukas Lindner

Supervised by - Prof. Oliver Schwabe + Prof. Sandra Hacker (FH Dortmund)
 

FURTHER PROJECTS IN OTHER POSITION

EHER FLIEGEN HIER UFOS 

(ARD Fernsehfilm, SutorKolonko, R: Ingo Haeb, Gina Wenzel 2023) 

Regieassistenz

WHEN I BLEED 

(Kurzspielfilm, FH Dortmund, R: Miri Klischat 2023) 

2. Regieassistenz

GEBORGTES WEISS

(Kinospielfilm, Ester.Reglin.Film, R: Sebastian Ko, 2022) 

Garderobiere

MONTAGS GESCHLOSSEN

(Serienpilot, FH Dortmund, R: Johannes Wünsch, 2022) 

Kostümbildnerin

DRIFTER

(Serienpilot, FH Dortmund, R: Johannes Weber, 2022) 

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INTERN

(Kurzspielfilm, FH Dortmund, R: Florian Klapetz, 2021) 

Kostümbildnerin

©2025 Klara Schmickler

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