Director of photography for
PATERNAL LEAVE - 3 TAGE MEER
Carolina Steinbrecher works as a cinematographer in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Her feature films JIBRIL (directed by Henrika Kull) and GLÜCK / BLISS premiered at the Berlinale Panorama in 2018 and 2021. The documentary JETZT ODER MORGEN by Lisa Weber, which also premiered in the Berlinale Panorama in 2020, was nominated for the Austrian Film Award. In 2022, she received a nomination for the German Camera Award for her work on GLÜCK / BLISS. She was also responsible for the cinematography of four episodes of the second season of the Swiss TV series NEUMATT (directed by Christian Johannes Koch & Andrea Štaka). Her most recent work includes the TV series PUSH (directed by Katja Benrath) for ZDFneo, which was nominated for the German Television Award in 2024. In 2025, her latest feature film PATERNAL LEAVE was shown in the Berlinale Generation 14+ section and awarded the AG Kino Gilde prize.
Films (selection): SCHWITZEN (2014, short film), SCHWERELOS (2015, short film), RAST (2016), JIBRIL (2018), JETZT ODER NIE (2020)