Main Competition for the Grand Prix Bank Millennium Award juror.
Swiss director and producer Christian Frei is considered one of today’s most innovative and compelling documentary filmmakers. He was nominated for an Academy Award with War Photographer (2001) and won the World Cinema Directing Award at Sundance with Space Tourists (2009). From the very start of his career, Frei established a reputation as an exacting documentarist, with a perfect grasp of his subjects. His films are considered to be humanistic and universal, as much as subtle and insistent. His latest documentary Genesis 2.0 (2018) premiered again at Sundance where it won the Special Jury Award for Cinematography. As producer, Christian Frei releases Raving Iran (2016) and Saudi Runaway (2020), directed by Susanne Regina Meures. Since 2006, Christian Frei has been an associate lecturer on Reflection Competence at the renowned University of St. Gallen (HSG). Since August 2010 he is president of the Swiss Film Academy.
