Stina Werenfels
filmmaker, author and producer
«As you prepare your breakfast, think of others.
Don’t forget to feed the pigeons.
As you conduct your wars, think of others.
Don’t forget those who want peace.
As you pay your water bill, think of others.
Think of those who only have clouds to drink from.
As you go home, your own home, think of others.
Don’t forget those who have no place to sleep.
As you liberate yourself with metaphors, think of others.
Those who have lost their right to speak.
As you think of distant others
Think of yourself and say
«I wish I was a candle in the darkness»
Mahmoud Darwish
Aletsch – The Glacier
Fiction, 90 min.
In development
In my latest fiction film project I put my attention to climate change. With my protagonists I’m travelling to an important place of my childhood: the Aletsch Glacier.
Its fading presence, its melting and groaning trigger strong feelings. Love, sadness, insecurity…
«Movie of my Life»
Happy Birthday, Locarno, Piazza Grande, 2017
Berlinale 2015, Panorama
Dora or The sexual Neuroses of Our Parents
A Life – Annie Ernaux
Theatre, 120 min.
9/14/23 – 01/05/24
Bühnen Bern
Based on the texts The Years, A Girl’s Story, Happening and The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
Bilder: Annette Boutellier
Motherlines
The desire to understand my mother lead me to Lodz and to a little girl with a doll in her arms: Klara. Youngest child of thirteen of a jewish family in Poland.
She became a subject of my life:
Blog
Jury of Semaine de la critique, Locarno 2022
Super happy to be invited to the Jury of «Semaine de la critique, 2022» > www.semainedelacritique.ch > www.locarnofestival.ch