Eline Gehring

Viewing the world through the lens of a camera awakened in Eline a desire to make films that focus on women.

Eline Gehring talks to us about her favorite films.

And about her path to film, which has taken her to St. Petersburg, Cairo and South Africa, among other places.

Eline Gehring began her career in 2006 as a camerawoman and editor for German reporting in Paris, Prague, Kiev and Berlin. She shot a documentary for the German Bundestag in St Petersburg and worked for Deutsche Welle in Cairo in 2008. Her stations also took her to South Africa, where she spent a year in 2011 shooting short films, documentaries and social commercials for NGOs.

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In 2016, Eline began work on her feature film debut NICO, which she wrote, directed and edited. NICO is screened at over 50 film festivals and nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2022 German Film Awards. NICOis later included in the German shortlist for the Oscars.

Nico - Sara Fazilat - Javeh Asefdjah - Eline Gehring - Into the Wild Mentoring

In 2022, Eline directs the season of a series on public television and has been developing her second feature film since 2023, with which she completes her directing studies at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). As a mentee of the INTO THE WILD programme funded by SOONER, she shows us some of her favourite films alongside NICO.

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