Stina Werenfels

Director, Screenwriter, Casting, Producer

Website: www.stinawerenfels.ch

Born in 1964 in Basel, Switzerland. After a degree in pharmacology at the ETH (Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich, she changed fields and studied film at New York University (Tisch School of the Arts) in 1991. In 1999 she won the Swiss Film Award, Best Short Film for PASTRY, PAIN AN POLITICS. 2007 Swiss Film Award, Special Jury Prize for GOING PRIVATE (2006), which premiered in Berlinale Panorama. Her feature DORA OR THE SEXUAL NEUROSES OF OUR PARTENTS (2015) also premiered in the Berlinale Panorama and won, amongst other awards, the Grand Prix du Jury at the Festival de Films de Femmes in Créteil. She lives and works in Zurich as a filmmaker, author and producer.

Filmography
(a selection)

Director

2026: Each of us by Neus Ballús, Anna Jadowska, Stina Werenfels, Anne Zohra Berrached
2026: Hirschfeld by Stina Werenfels
2015: Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern by Stina Werenfels
2006: Nachbeben by Stina Werenfels
2003: Meier Marilyn by Stina Werenfels
1999: ID Swiss by Fulvio Bernasconi, Christian Davi, Nadia Fares, Wageh George, Kamal Musale, Thomas Thümena, Stina Werenfels
1998: Pastry, Pain & Politics by Stina Werenfels
1994: Fragments From The Lower East Side by Stina Werenfels

Screenwriter

2015: Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern by Stina Werenfels
2006: Nachbeben by Stina Werenfels
1999: ID Swiss by Fulvio Bernasconi, Christian Davi, Nadia Fares, Wageh George, Kamal Musale, Thomas Thümena, Stina Werenfels
1998: Pastry, Pain & Politics by Stina Werenfels