Bettina Oberli

Bettina Oberli grew up in Samoa and Meiringen in Switzerland and lives as a writer/director in Zurich. She graduated from the Zurich University of the Arts. This was followed by various assistantships in New York and Berlin. Her short and long feature films have been shown at festivals around the world and have been shown in cinemas in various countries. Her well recognized debut film IM NORDWIND premiered 2004 at the San Sebastian international Filmfestival and has been awarded with several prices. Her most successful film to date was LATE BLOOMERS (2006) which still remains among the top 3 Swiss feature films of all time. 2018 she premiered her first french-speaking film LE VENT TOURNE at the Locarno Film Festival. Bettina Oberli also makes music videos and short films. In 2013 she showed her first stage production at the Theater Basel with "Anna Karenina”. She is also an Opera Director. MY WONDERFUL WANDA (2020) is her sixth feature film.