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Growing Up: The Films of Hans Christian Schmid

Hans-Christian Schmid has emerged as one of the most fascinating filmmakers in contemporary German cinema. His films often focus on characters who move from small towns to big cities and the difficult period of transition from adolescence to adulthood yet he avoids the more lurid traits of other youth-oriented films by presenting a refreshingly honest take on these moments of development. A graduate of the Academy of Television & Film in Munich, Schmid initially worked as documentary filmmaker before making the transition to fiction features. His breakthrough came in 1995 with his feature debut It's A Jungle Out There, his first writing collaboration with Michael Gutmann. He has received multiple accolades from the German Film Awards and film festivals in Berlin (where he has been honored twice with FIPRESCI awards), Munich, Locarno and Seattle.

Current and upcoming film series

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The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

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Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

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The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

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Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

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Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

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Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

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Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

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Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

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Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue