Films by Flavio Gerber

Switzerland, Germany 2022, 90 min
by André Schäfer

This film is not a classic portrait but a documentary using fiction to bring Martin Suter’s novels to life while introducing us to the author behind the stories on a whole new level. "Fantasy is usually truer than reality itself," says Suter. He strolls through his stories, exposing his protagonists and their secrets – and especially his own, private cosmos. [75 Locarno FF]"The portrait about Martin Suter took four years to develop. He freely talks about his life, thoughts, and tools of the trad

Germany, Switzerland 2019, 19 min
by Maja Tschumi

In the life of the successful ballet dancer Laura passion and excess only take place while dancing. Nevertheless, she is perhaps the greatest performer in everyday life and the urban scenery of St. Petersburg is her actual stage. In atmospheric and calm images, the film approaches the life of an extraordinary young woman whose daily routine combines the classical authoritarian body-regime of Russian ballet with today's promising regime of self-optimization.