Andreas Fontana

After a degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, he moved to Buenos Aires where he trained as an assistant director. 

In 2010, he completed a Masters in directing between ECAL (Lausanne) and HEAD (Geneva). His short film COTONOV VANISHED (2009) received the First Steps prize at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon 2010 and the best short film at the Festival dei Popoli, Florence 2010. His last film, PEDRO M, 1981, was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize 2016 in the category “Best short film”.

In January 2016, Andreas Fontana and Zahra Vargas received the Solothurn Upcoming Lab Prize for the development of a feature-length documentary project, NOTHINGWOOD. He also works as an assistant for Jean-Stéphane Bron, Ingrid Wildi, David Maye and Matthias Staub, as well as co-screenwriter for Zahra Vargas (The End of Homer, 2015, presented in Berlin and Clermont-Ferrand) or Maryam Goormaghtigh (Vol au Panthéon, 2011).

Since 2017, Andreas Fontana has been teaching at the Vevey School of Photography in Higher Education. In 2021, he directed his first feature film AZOR, selected in the “encounter” category at the Berlin festival.

FILMOGRAPHY

Short films

2007 – The Primer

2008 – Go Le Chanter A Gardel

2009 – Cotonou Vanished

2010 – A few things (friends)

2010 – Gaucho

2011 – Robbery at the Pantheon; co-written with Maryam Goormaghtigh

2011 – In our countryside; co-written with Marie-Eve Hildbrand and David Maye

2015 – The End of Homer; co-writer of Zahra Vargas

2015 – Pedro M, 1981

feature film

2021 – Azor; written in collaboration with Mariano Llinas