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Community Rating
6.4
TMDB estimate
Born
July 7, 1984 (age 41)
Born in
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Christian Kochmann is a German Director of Photography & Camera Operator working in feature films, documentaries and independent projects. After training and working as a camera assistant and lighting technician, he completed his diploma in artistic cinematography for fiction and documentary film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2015. His feature film debut, Oray (2019), received numerous awards, including the First Feature Award at the 69th Berlinale, the Grand Jury Prize for Best European Debut Film at the Premiers Plans d'Angers Festival, and the Golden Olive Branch for Best Film at the Festival del Cinema Europeo in Lecce. The film Annunciation (2017) was nominated for the Student Academy Award and the experimental documentary Ocean Hill Drive (2016) won the German Short Film Award in Gold and the 1st Prize in the NRW Competition at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. His latest feature films, HYSTERIA (directed by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay) and SIRENS CALL (directed by Gossing/Sieckmann), had their world premiere at the 75th Berlinale in 2025, where HYSTERIA won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Panorama section.

Bin im Garten
as Camera Operator
2026

2m²
as Director of Photography, Additional Camera
2026

Hysteria
as Director of Photography
2025

Sirens Call
as Director of Photography
2025

Love, Deutschmarks and Death
as Cinematography
2022

Oray
as Director of Photography
2021

KBV - Keine besonderen Vorkommnisse
as Camera Operator
2021

Souvenir
as Director of Photography
2019

Other Parents
as Camera Operator
2019

One Hour Real
as Director of Photography
2017

Annunciation
as Director of Photography
2016

Ocean Hill Drive
as Director of Photography
2016
Desert Miracles
as Director of Photography
2015

Before the Gate of Ictihad
as Director of Photography
2013

Tina Turner - Simply the Best
as Camera Operator
2011