Frank & Louis
Switzerland / United Kingdom, January 2026
FILM,
Fiction,
100 min.
- directed by
- Petra Volpe
- Written by
- Petra Volpe, Esther Bernstorff
- Status
- In distribution
Frank, serving a life sentence, takes a prison job caring for incarcerated elders with Alzheimer’s and dementia. What begins as a self-serving bid for parole becomes a profound, transformative bond with Louis, the man he looks after, offering Frank a glimpse of redemption in an unforgiving place.
credits
- World Premiere
- January 2026
- Original Version
- English, colour, DCP, 100 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0007-1910-0000-5-0000-0000-M
- Production
- Zodiac Pictures Ltd, Caspian Films, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR
- Producer
- Reto Schaerli, Lukas Hobi, Thembisa Cochrane, Georgie Paget
- directed by
- Petra Volpe
- Written by
- Petra Volpe, Esther Bernstorff
- Cinematography
- Judith Kaufmann
- Editing
- Hansjörg Weissbrich
- Location Sound Mix
- Jean-Pierre Gerth
- Sound Design
- Gina Keller
- Re-Recording Mix
- Jacques Kieffer
- Music
- Oliver Coates
- Production Design
- Su Erdt, Iain Andrews
- Costumes
- Pascale Suter
- Make up
- Julia Nietlispach
- Casting
- Avy Kaufman, Heather Basten
Cast
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Rob Morgan
René Pérez Joglar
Rosalind Eleazar
Indira Varma
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- TrustNordisk ApS
Worldwide Distribution
- Germany
- Constantin Film AG Distribution
- Switzerland
- Filmcoopi Zürich AG Distribution