ABOUT
Lea Schlude grew up between Germany, Russia and Italy, and today lives in Berlin. She studied Philosophy, Arts & Media in Hildesheim, Berlin and Belém (Brazil), and holds an M.A. in Philosophy from Freie Universität Berlin. Her first documentary feature SAN CIPRIANO ROAD was selected for the markets of Visions du Réel Film Festival and Hot Docs Toronto in 2019 and won Best Film at Roma Cinema Doc and Best Feature Documentary at Olhares do Mediterraneo Film Festival Lisbon. Lea Schlude is currently developing her second feature, HAZY VALLEY, which has been awarded with the Wim Wenders Grant by the Wim Wenders Foundation and the Film Commission NRW. She was a fellow of the Documentary Campus Masterschool 2023. The short film RAINBOW STEEL (30 min.) will be released in Autumn 2024.
FILMOGRAPHY
2025 RAINBOW STEEL (Lotti auf Schicht) 30 min. - in development
2025 HAZY VALLEY 90 min. - in development
2019 SAN CIPRIANO ROAD (Via San Cipriano), Germany/Italy, 67 min.
NOTE
My work explores issues of place, memory and identity at the intersection of film and philosophy. I am interested in the major political struggles of contemporary societies - labor, race, gender and ecology - and how they manifest locally, in human interactions within specific environments and microcosms. While my research is informed by critical theory, I feel especially drawn to textures and fragments, peripheries and liminal spaces between nature and culture, objects and subjects, body and mind. In my master thesis I argued for an epistemological theory of pleasure.
MEMBERSHIPS
AG DOK - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm
Doc/it - Associazione Documentaristi Italiani