After studying at the European Film College in Denmark, Clara Trischler lived in Israel for a year, where, in addition to her work at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Documentation Archive, she collaborated on films and film festivals and wrote articles about everyday life in Jerusalem. After several film and festival jobs in Berlin and New York, she completed screenwriting studies at the Vienna Film Academy and the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte Buenos Aires, rediscovering her love for documentary film (which began with Hi8 camera experiments as a teenager). This led her to Berlin, where she studied documentary directing at the Konrad Wolf Film University in Babelsberg. She lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.