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Chiara Fleischhacker was born in Kassel on April 6, 1993. She initially began studying psychology in Freiburg in 2013 but dropped out after two years. At the end of 2014, she gained her first practical film experience as a production assistant on the feature film "Wir sind die Flut" ("We Are the Tide"). She then went to Cuba for six months and began studying Directing Documentary Film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2015 after her return. During her studies, she shot the ten-minute documentary "Alena" (2016), the portrait of an ambitious triathlete, and the 28-minute documentary "Kommen um zu Gehen" (2017), about a convicted murderer who wants to qualify for an open prison after 20 years of imprisonment.
During a semester abroad at the Paris film school La Fémis, she made the short feature film "Golden Girl" (DE/FR 2018), about the coming-of-age of a celebrated child model who is dissatisfied with her role; subsequently Fleischacker realized the short feature film "Was bleibt" ("What Remains", DE/FR 2018) as part of the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris training program at La Fémis, which was broadcast on Arte and BR television, among others.
In spring 2020, Fleischhacker took part in the "Corona Creative" campaign organized by the television station MDR and created a very personal, cinematic "Corona Pregnancy Diary" entitled "Die Störche fliegen noch", which was posted online by MDR and ARD along with 19 other film submissions (out of a total of 300). Also in 2020, Fleischhacker was awarded a top prize in the Eobanus Hessus writing competition for her short story "Minuten".
For her yet unfilmed screenplay "Vena", she received the Thomas Strittmatter Prize and the Caligari Förderpreis in the category fiction film in 2022. "Vena", the story of a pregnant drug addict and her growing relationship with her midwife, was Fleischhacker's diploma project. The finished film premiered at the Hamburg Filmfest in October 2024, where it won the Hamburg Producers Award for German Cinema Productions. At the First Steps Awards 2024, "Vena" received the award for best feature-length film and the Michael Ballhaus Award for Cinematography Graduates (Lisa Jilg). It was released in cinemas in November of the same year.