After her graduation in pharmacology at ETH Zurich, Stina Werenfels changed the subject radically: she started to study film at New York University (Tisch School of the Arts). Amongst others, she there attended master classes with Spike Lee, Arthur Penn and Marketa Kimbrell. Her student film “Fragments from the Lower East Side” was shot and produced in New York. Back in Switzerland she made the award-winning short “Pastry, Pain & Politics”. Her first feature film “Nachbeben” premiered at the Berlinale Panorama and won several prices, including the 2006 Swiss Film Prize. “Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern” based on the play by Lukas Bärfuss, was also invited to the Berlinale in 2015 and nominated four times for the Swiss Film Prize. Her contribution to “so einfach war das” is part of the permanent exposition at the Jewish Museum, Berlin.
Since 2008 Stina Werenfels has been a guest lecturer at the ZHdK in the field of film, music and theatre.
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