Christine Lang works as a filmmaker, author, curator and DJ. In 2002, she received her master's degree in cultural studies, art history and literature at the Humboldt Universität Berlin, and then studied film and television directing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. In 2007, she was a fellow at the Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades.

Her short films Quio: So Dazed and Quio: Rising Tide screened internationally at more than 160 film festivals and won numerous awards. Since October 2009, Lang has been teaching as an artistic research associate in the degree program screenplay/dramaturgy at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.