Max Karli
Producer, Editor
enrolling in the film department at New York University in 1998. He was then appointed deputy director of the Barcelona European Film Market. Between 1999 and 2004, he worked on the coordination and programming of the Geneva International Film Festival. In 2003, together with Pauline Gygax, he founded Rita Productions, and since then has produced fiction films and documentaries, mainly as part of international co-productions. His best-known productions include LES LONGWAVE by Lionel Baier and THE GUARDIANS by Xavier Beauvois. Claude Barras' animated feature MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI, written by Céline Sciamma, premiered at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes and won two Césars in France and three Quartz at the 2017 Swiss Film Awards. It was also nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe and Baftas in 2017. Ursula Meier's THE LINE premiered in the international competition at the Berlinale, Lionel Baier's CONTINENTAL DRIFT and Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes in 2022.
Filmography
(a selection)
Editor
- 2004
- Paul s'en va by Alain Tanner
Producer
- 2026
- Placée by Léa Fazer
- 2025
- Simon l'absurde by Felipe Monroy
- 2024
- Espèce menacée by Bruno Deville
- 2022
- De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- 2022
- La Ligne by Ursula Meier
- 2022
- La dérive des continents (au sud) by Lionel Baier
- 2021
- Sacha by Léa Fazer
- 2019
- Helvetica by Romain Graf
- 2018
- Le vent tourne by Bettina Oberli
- 2017
- Les Gardiennes by Xavier Beauvois
- 2016
- Ma vie de Courgette by Claude Barras
- 2015
- Dirty Gold War by Daniel Schweizer
- 2015
- Victoria by Anouk Chambaz
- 2014
- La rançon de la gloire by Xavier Beauvois
- 2013
- The Bakery by Salar Shahna
- 2013
- Les grandes ondes (à l'ouest) by Lionel Baier
- 2013
- L'Armée du Salut by Abdellah Taïa
- 2010
- System Error by Michael Borgognon
- 2009
- Tabou by Orane Burri
- 2009
- Brittany by Yann-Olivier Wicht
- 2009
- Déchaînées by Raymond Vouillamoz
- 2006
- La vraie vie est ailleurs by Frédéric Choffat