ピーター・ズントーの建築をヴィム・ヴェンダースが映像化する、長編ドキュメンタリー『FROM INSIDE OUT』を発表

アカデミー賞に4度ノミネートされたドイツの映画監督ヴィム・ヴェンダースによる新作ドキュメンタリー『FROM INSIDE OUT』は、プリツカー賞受賞建築家ピーター・ズントーが手掛けた世界各地の建築群を被写体とした作品です。

上映時間114分の本作は、最新の3D撮影技術を駆使し、図面や建築家個人の視点を超え、利用者や居住者、現場の職人たちの視点から、ズントーの建築空間を没入型映像として疑似体験することができます。

本作は、2026年9月にヴェネツィア国際映画祭の「ヴェネツィア・オープン」で世界初公開される予定です。

注目ポイント

• 3D没入型映像によるリアルな空間・スケール体験
• 14年間にわたる長期密着とプロセスの記録
• ズントー建築の核心ともいえる、場所の感覚と職人技の視覚化
• 建築について新たな視点から捉え直すプロジェクト

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3D没入型映像で体感するピーター・ズントーの世界

アカデミー賞に4度ノミネートされた映画監督ヴィム・ヴェンダース（Wim Wenders）は、新作映画において、現代で最も影響力のある建築家の1人であり、プリツカー賞受賞者のピーター・ズントー（Peter Zumthor）の作品と哲学を探求する。

3Dによる没入型のアプローチは、ズントーの作品を単に建築家自身の視点からだけでなく、主に訪問者、利用者、居住者、あるいは職人たちの視点を通じて提示している。これにより観客は、まるで自らその中を歩き回っているかのように、このスイス人建築家のユニークな建物を体験することができる。そして観客は、それらの建物が深い「場所」への感覚と、職人技への徹底したこだわりから生み出されていることを理解するのである。

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14年にわたる長期プロジェクトの軌跡と建築群

ズントーとヴェンダースのコラボレーションは、2012年のヴェネチア建築ビエンナーレのための短編映画『NOTES FROM A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ARCHITECT』から始まった。これが本長編プロジェクトの着想源となり、制作のきっかけとなっている。当初から長期にわたる観察プロジェクトとして計画され、最終的には14年間に及ぶものとなった。

撮影は、北極圏を越えたノルウェーのヴァルドにある〈ウィッチクラフト・メモリアル（Witchcraft Memorial）〉から、スイスのヴァルスにある〈テルメ・ヴァルス（Thermal Baths in Vals）〉、ケルンの〈コロンバ美術館（Kolumba Museum）〉、そしてアイフェル山地にある近隣の〈ブラザー・クラウス野外礼拝堂（Bruder Klaus Chapel）〉に至るまで、ズントーの主要な作品すべてを網羅しており、そのうちのいくつかは四季折々の姿も捉えている。

さらにこの映画は、デヴォンシャーの〈セキュラー・リトリート（Secular Retreat）〉、ロサンゼルス・カウンティ美術館の記念碑的な〈デヴィッド・ゲフィン・ギャラリーズ（David Geffen Galleries ）〉、バーゼルの〈ベイラー財団（Beyeler Foundation）〉の新館など、構想から建設、完成に至るまでの数々のプロジェクトを追った。

そのたびに、建築は唯一無二の建物であり、周囲の環境と切り離すことのできない、その場所固有の目的のために創り出された建築的独創性を明らかにしている。この映画は、建築が私たちの世界に対する認識にいかに大きな影響を与え、私たちの生活全体をいかに形作っているかを理解させてくれる。ピーター・ズントーが言うように、「私たちは皆、家から来ている」のである。

ヴィム・ヴェンダース ©︎ PeterRigaud2023

ディレクターズノート – ヴィム・ヴェンダース

「私たちは皆、家に住んでいる。」

私たちはそれらを「家」と呼ぶ。なぜなら、それらは私たちを守り、家族や歴史と結びつけてくれるからである。私たちの記憶はそこに蓄えられている……。それらは、私たちが自らの生い立ちを確立し、アイデンティティを形成する助けとなる。私たちは家の中で食事をし、眠り、夢を見る。そこで成長し、子供を育てる。オフィスで働き、美術館で芸術を楽しみ、教会で祈る。私たちは多くの時間を家の中で過ごす。家こそが、私たちの生活の条件を大きく決定づけているのである。

それにもかかわらず、私たちのほとんどは、建物や家、ましてや「建築」についてほとんど知らない。それでもなお、私たちはそれをほぼ当然のこととして受け入れている。私はこの映画を通じて、その状況を変えたいと考えた。

「感覚的な体験」と建築への気づき

『FROM INSIDE OUT』は、私たちの「場所」に対する感覚を研ぎ澄まし、家や「住まい」に対する感受性を広げ、建築が私たちにどのような影響を与え、私たち自身や社会をどのように形作っているかをより深く自覚してもらうことを目指している。

この映画は、何かを教えようとするものではない。その代わりに、建築に関するいくつかの基本的なことを、ただ純粋に感じ取ることができるような、感覚的な体験を提供するのである。この発見の冒険におけるガイド役を務めるのは、現代を代表する偉大な建築家の1人、ピーター・ズントーである。

彼はプロジェクトの選定に極めて慎重であり、一度手掛けると、時間をかけて、建設の過程で将来の建物をより良いものへと磨き上げていく。それは、作家や画家、作曲家、あるいは私の場合は映画監督がそうであるように。私たちと同じように、彼は、作り出すものは何でも、作りながら完璧にすることができると信じているのである。

以下リリース（英文）です。

ROAD MOVIES, DCM & HANWAY FILMS Present

2026 // Germany, Switzerland // German, Swiss German and English with English Subtitles // 114 MINUTES // 3D DCP

WORLD PREMIERE Venice Film Festival in the Open/Out of Competition section
Press & Market 1: 5 September, 7:30pm | Sala Perla
Press & Market 2: 5 September, 10:15pm | Sala Darsena
World Premiere: 6 September, 2:00pm | Sala Grande

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World Sales
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Credits
Written and Directed by Wim Wenders

Produced by Marc Schmidheiny, Christoph Daniel, Karsten Brünig, Wim Wenders, Co-producers, Dario Suter, Joel Brandeis

Cast as themselves
Peter Zumthor
and
Anna Trauffer, Carin Caduff, Tarek Atoui, Karl Schlögel, Suzanne Ziellenbach, David Regehr, Aoi Yamada, Siri Hustvedt, Michael Govan, Pedro Reyes, Reiko Sudo, Mark Bradford, Ava DuVernay, Mariana Castillo Deball, Mark Oliver Everett, Ever Anderson, Tallulah Jane Jones Keeler, Lena and Werner Herzog, Sophie Hunger

Director of Photography Franz Lustig
Additional Director of Photography & Stereographer Sebastian Cramer
Editor Maxine Goedicke
Second Unit Director: Donata Wenders
Sound Recordist Patrick Becker
Re-recording Mixer Jacques Kieffer
Sound Design Gina Keller
Original Score
Vera Kappeler & Peter Conradin Zumthor
Laurent Petitgand
Sophie Hunger
VFX Kalle Max Hofmann
Graphic & Title Design Toby Cornish

FROM INSIDE OUT – The Architecture of Peter Zumthor is a production by Road Movies and DCM, in collaboration with Atelier Peter Zumthor. Funded by the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the German Federal Film Board (FFA), Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Bundesamt für Kultur BAK, and Kulturförderung Graubünden / SWISSLOS, in co-production with Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Südwestrundfunk, in cooperation with Arte, and in co-production with SRG SSR and SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen.

LOGLINE

Wim Wenders’ new film explores the work of one of the most influential contemporary architects, Pritzker Prize-winner Peter Zumthor. The immersive approach in 3D presents his architecture through the eyes of visitors, users, inhabitants, or craftspeople. The viewers experience the buildings, as if they could walk around in them on their own, leaving them with an understanding how much architecture influences our perception of the world and how it shapes our lives.

SYNOPSIS

Four-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Wim Wenders explores the work and philosophy of Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architect Peter Zumthor in an immersive documentary about the powerful relationship between people and the places they visit, work in, or inhabit. Filmed over more than 14 years and captured through cutting-edge 3D cinematography, the film invites audiences to experience Zumthor’s architectural originals through the eyes of visitors, users, inhabitants, or craftspeople – allowing them to walk through these spaces themselves. Journeying from intimate private homes to the monumental new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA in Los Angeles, FROM INSIDE OUT reveals Zumthor’s devotion to craftsmanship and materiality, combined with his profound sense of place. Wenders shows that architecture is not simply about buildings, but about how they shape our emotions, memories and understanding of the world. You’ll walk out with a new understanding of what buildings can mean to you.

LONG SYNOPSIS

In his new film, 4-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Wim Wenders, (PERFECT DAYS, PINA, SALT OF THE EARTH, BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB) explores the work and philosophy of one of the most influential contemporary architects, Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor. The immersive approach in 3D presents Zumthor’s work not just through the eyes of its architect, but largely through the eyes of visitors, users, inhabitants, or craftspeople, enabling the viewers to experience the Swiss architect’s unique buildings, as if they could walk around in them on their own. They understand how they’re made from a profound sense of place and a radical preference for craftsmanship.

The collaboration between Zumthor and Wenders began in 2012 with a short film for the Venice Architecture Biennale, NOTES FROM A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ARCHITECT, which inspired and started this feature-length project. It was, from the beginning, planned to be a long-term observation, in the end it was spanning 14 years. The shooting led to all of Zumthor’s key works, to some of them also in different seasons, from the Witchcraft Memorial in Vardø in Norway, high up North, beyond the Arctic Circle, to his famous Thermal Baths in Vals in Switzerland, or the Kolumba museum in Cologne as well as to the nearby Bruder Klaus Chapel in the Eifel Mountains. The film accompanied several projects from conception through construction to finishing, like the Secular Retreat in Devonshire, the monumental David Geffen Galleries of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or the new building of the Beyeler Foundation in Basel. Each time, the architecture reveals a one-of-a-kind building, an architectural original inseparable from its surroundings and created for its very own specific purpose. The film lets us understand how much architecture influences our perception of the world and how it shapes our entire lives. As Peter Zumthor says: “We’re all coming from houses.”

DIRECTOR’S NOTE – Wim Wenders

“We all live in houses.”
We call them ‘homes’, because they protect us and link us to our family and to our history. Our memories are stored in them… They help us establish our biography and form our identity. We eat and sleep and dream in houses, we grow up and raise our children in them. We go to work in offices, enjoy art in museums and pray in churches. We spend a lot of our time inside houses. They largely define the conditions of our lives. Yet, most of us don’t know much about buildings, houses or homes, let alone about ‘architecture’. Still, we mostly just take it for granted. I wanted to change that with this film.

FROM INSIDE OUT
wants to sharpen our sense of place, enlarge our sensorium for houses or ‘homes’, so that we’re more aware how architecture influences us and shapes ourselves and for our societies.

This film is not trying to teach you anything. Instead, it offers you a sensual experience that will allow you to simply take in a few basic things about architecture. Your guide in this adventure of discovery is Peter Zumthor, one of the great living architects of our time.

He is highly selective in his choice of projects; and once committed, he takes his time, so he can improve the future building in the construction process, like writers, painters, composers or filmmakers, in my case. Like us, he believes that anything you produce can be perfected as you are making it.

PETER ZUMTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Peter Zumthor, born 1943 in Basel, works with his team of around two dozen people in his atelier in the alpine setting of Haldenstein, Switzerland, producing architectural originals such as the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Therme Vals, the Museum Kolumba in Cologne, the Steilneset Memorial in Vardø or the David Geffen Galleries, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA. He has received numerous awards, including the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association in Tokyo in 2008, the Pritzker Architecture Prize from the Hyatt Foundation in 2009, and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2013.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF PETER ZUMTHOR

All buildings are listed chronologically as they are presented in the documentary.

Shelter for Roman Archaeological Ruins, Chur, Switzerland, 1985 – 1986
St. Benedict’s Chapel, Sumvitg, Switzerland, 1985 – 1988
Gugalun House, Versam, Switzerland, 1990 – 1994
Therme Vals, Graubünden, Switzerland, 1990 – 1996
Bregenz Art Museum, Austria, 1989 – 1997
Luzi House, Jenaz, Switzerland, 1997 – 2002
Topography of Terror Documentation Center, Berlin, Germany, 1993 – 2003
Atelier Zumthor, New Building, Haldenstein, Switzerland, 2011 – 2016
Kolumba Art Museum, Cologne, Germany, 1997 – 2007
Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, Wachendorf, Germany, 2001 – 2007
Almannajuvet, Zinc Mine Museum, Sauda, Norway, 2003 – 2016
Leis Houses, Leis, Vals, Switzerland, 2006 – 2013
Steilneset Memorial to the Victims of the Witch Trials, Vardø, Norway, 2007 – 2011
Chivelstone House, Secular Retreat, Devon, England, 2008 – 2018
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Building for the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles, USA, 2008 – 2026
Wyss Museum, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland, 2016 – 2026

CREW BIOGRAPHIES

WIM WENDERS | WRITER AND DIRECTOR

Wim Wenders (born 1945 in Düsseldorf) gained international recognition as a major protagonist of the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Today, he is considered one of the most prominent figures in contemporary world cinema. The work of the screenwriter, director, producer, photographer, and author includes multiple award-winning feature and documentary films, photo exhibitions presented worldwide, as well as numerous photo books, film books and collections of essays. He lives and works with his wife Donata Wenders in the countryside near Berlin.

After graduating school, Wim Wenders began to study medicine and philosophy before moving to Paris in 1966 “to fulfill his dream and become a painter”. Alongside his apprenticeship in the studio of the graphic artist and engraver Johnny Friedlaender, he spent his afternoons and then increasingly his nights at the Cinémathèque Française, where he watched hundreds of films, most of them introduced by Henri Langlois. This “crash course in the history of cinema” became an important stage in his education in which Wenders began to see film as an “extension of painting by other means”.

Wenders began his career as a filmmaker in autumn 1967 when he enrolled at the newly founded University of Television and Film (HFF) in Munich. Parallel to his studies at the HFF, he also worked as a film critic from 1967 until the early 1970s. It was during this time that he made his first short films, some of them outside of film school. Immediately after graduating with the feature film SUMMER IN THE CITY (1970), he and fifteen other directors and writers founded the Filmverlag der Autoren, in 1971, a co-operative of young German auteur filmmakers who thus took production, rights management and distribution of their films into
their own hands.

Film Work

After THE GOALIE’S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK (1971), his first feature-length film, Wenders made the road movie trilogy ALICE IN THE CITIES (1974), WRONG MOVE (1974) and KINGS OF THE ROAD (1975), in which the protagonists try to come to terms with their rootlessness in postwar Germany, among other things.

In 1976, Wim Wenders founded the film production company Road Movies. Since then, the Berlin based company has produced and co-produced numerous arthouse films by Wim Wenders and various other directors, with a particular focus on creative documentaries, and productions in 3D.

Today, Road Movies is managed by Marc Schmidheiny and Wim Wenders.

His international breakthrough came with THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1977). Since then, Wenders has worked in Europe, the USA, Latin America and Asia and was honoured with numerous awards for his films at festivals around the world, including the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival for THE STATE OF THINGS (1982), the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Festival and the BAFTA Award for PARIS, TEXAS (1984), the Award for Best Director in Cannes for WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), the Grand Jury Prize for FARAWAY, SO CLOSE! in Cannes (1993) and the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL (2000). His documentaries BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (1999), PINA (2011) and THE SALT OF THE EARTH (2014) were each nominated for an Oscar.

SUBMERGENCE, starring Oscar winner Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy, was released in the cinema in 2018, as was POPE FRANCIS – A MAN OF HIS WORD, a documentary film featuring Pope Francis.

His two most recent films had both their world premieres at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023: ANSELM, his documentary in 3D about Anselm Kiefer, and his Japanese feature film PERFECT DAYS, for which the lead actor Kōji Yakusho was honored with the award for Best Actor. PERFECT DAYS became one of Wenders’ internationally most successful films and was nominated for an Oscar in the International Feature Film category in 2024.

In autumn 2012, Wim Wenders and his wife Donata established the Wim Wenders Stiftung in Düsseldorf, his hometown, a charitable foundation to create a framework to bring together and to preserve Wim Wenders’ cinematic, photographic, and literary lifework and to make it permanently accessible to the public.

The Foundation is also dedicated to promoting young talent in the field of innovative filmmaking through the Wim Wenders Grant awarded in cooperation with the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. It is also involved in film education since it initiated the film education project ‘A European School of Seeing’ for school students.

In 2014, the Wim Wenders Foundation began to digitally restore Wim Wenders’ films and has so far restored 23 works at the highest standard. In 2018, the 4K-restored version of WINGS OF DESIRE was re-released and since July 2024, the 4K-restored version of the cult film PARIS, TEXAS, featuring an all-star cast including Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell, can be seen again theatrically worldwide.

The Wim Wenders Foundation is managed by Claire Brunel and Hella Wenders.

WIM WENDERS FILMOGRAPHY

FEATURE AND DOCUMENTARY FILMS
2023 ANSELM (3D)
PERFECT DAYS
2018 POPE FRANCIS – A MAN OF HIS WORD
2017 SUBMERGENCE
2016 THE BEAUTIFUL DAYS OF ARANJUEZ (3D)
2015 EVERY THING WILL BE FINE (3D)
2014 THE SALT OF THE EARTH
THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC (3D)
(Episode from CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE)
2011 PINA (3D)
2008 PALERMO SHOOTING
2005 DON’T COME KNOCKING
2004 LAND OF PLENTY
2003 THE SOUL OF A MAN
(Episode from THE BLUES SERIES by Martin Scorsese)
2002 ODE TO COLOGNE: A ROCK ‘N’ ROLL FILM
2000 THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL
1999 BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
1997 THE END OF VIOLENCE
1996 A TRICK OF THE LIGHT (with students of the HFF Munich)
1995 BEYOND THE CLOUDS (with Michelangelo Antonioni)
1994 LISBON STORY
1993 FARAWAY, SO CLOSE!
1991 UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1994 Director’s Cut)
1989 NOTEBOOK ON CITIES AND CLOTHES
1987 WINGS OF DESIRE
1985 TOKYO-GA
1984 PARIS, TEXAS
1982 THE STATE OF THINGS
HAMMETT
1980 LIGHTNING OVER WATER
1977 THE AMERICAN FRIEND
1976 KINGS OF THE ROAD
1975 WRONG MOVE
1973 ALICE IN THE CITIES
1972 THE SCARLET LETTER
1971 THE GOALIE’S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK
1970 SUMMER IN THE CITY

INSTALLATIONS

2023 SOME BODY COMES INTO THE LIGHT
A 3D installation
2022 PRÉSENCE – THE ART OF CLAUDINE DRAI
A 3D installation
2020 TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT EDWARD HOPPER,
A 3D INSTALLATION

FRANZ LUSTIG | DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

7th October 1967 – Franz Lustig was born in Freiburg at Breisgau as the first of 4 sons of Siegfried and Dorothea Lustig. He got his first super-8 camera at the age of 11. Since then, he wanted to be a cinematographer.

After years of exercising and work as a freelance camera assistant and editor for various production companies on all kinds of projects and genres he was one of the first students at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 1991 and finished in 1995 with a master for cinematography.

Since 1994 Franz has been working as director of photography for commercials and music-videos with some of the leading directors all over the world, like Sam Brown, Gary Freedman, Simon McQuoid, Stuart McIntyre, Jones and Tino, Martin Aamund, Tomas Jonsgarden, Nacho Gayan, Daniel Kleinmann, Ringan Ledwidge, Tarsem and Ralf Schmerberg.

After moving on to short films, Franz has since worked with director Wim Wenders on three features: LAND OF PLENTY, which won “Best Camera” at the German Film Awards; DON’T COME KNOCKING which earned Franz “Best European Cinematographer” in 2005; and 2007’s PALERMO SHOOTING. His documentary work, also an important career path for him, includes the film 2 or 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HIM by Malte Ludin about the life and death of Ludin’s Nazi-father, and the 2008 documentary DANCE FOR ALL. In 2012, Franz won the Mobius award for “Best Cinematographer”.

SEBASTIAN CRAMER | STEREOGRAPHER & ADDITIONAL DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Sebastian Cramer initially worked as a director and cinematographer on commercial film productions before specializing in the creation of 3D films. He has collaborated with Wim Wenders for 15 years. He also works as a freelance artist in the field of stereoscopic photography and is currently developing a cinematic language for immersive 3D productions.

MAXINE GOEDICKE | EDITOR

Maxine Goedicke is a Berlin-based film editor, focusing on feature documentaries. Her most recent work includes Wim Wenders’ FROM INSIDE OUT (2026) and SIRI HUSTVEDT – DANCE AROUND THE SELF (2026), for which she was nominated for Best Editing at the 2026 German Film Awards.

Her long-standing collaboration with Wim Wenders began as an assistant editor on PINA (2011).

At the age of 23, she edited the Oscar-nominated THE SALT OF THE EARTH (2014), which received the Prix Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by Pope Francis – A MAN OF HIS WORD (2018) and ANSELM (2023), both of which premiered at Cannes.

Goedicke has also worked closely with director Sonia Kennebeck for over 10 years, editing NATIONAL BIRD (2016), which premiered at the Berlinale and received an Emmy nomination, as well as ENEMIES OF THE STATE (TIFF 2020) and REALITY WINNER (SXSW 2021).

With Marten Persiel, Goedicke edited two hybrid documentaries. THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA (2012) was her first feature as an editor. The film won the Dialogue en perspective Prize at the Berlinale in 2012, a German Camera Award promotional prize for editing, and the Special Jury Prize at the Nashville Film Festival. Their collaboration continued with EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE (2021).

DONATA WENDERS | SECOND UNIT DIRECTOR

Donata Wenders was born in Berlin in 1965. She studied film and theatre in Berlin and Stuttgart and began her artistic career as a cinematographer for feature films and documentaries. Since 1995 she has been working as a freelance photographer. Her images are characterised by a classical, mostly black and white visual language. With photography’s digital transformation, Donata Wenders has been developing audiovisual short film installations since 2015. This fusion of photography and moving image led her back to her roots and also marked an evolution in genre.

KAPPELER – ZUMTHOR | COMPOSERS
Vera Kappeler: Piano
Peter Conradin Zumthor: Drums

“Weirdly beautiful, and wonderfully unpretentious” — as one music critic summed it up.
Since the beginning of their long-standing collaboration, Kappeler-Zumthor have pursued their own singular path, shaped by distinctive sound combinations, reduction, precision, childlike playfulness, and humour, as well as by darker, more abyssal, and melancholic undertones. Their music resists categorization, drawing inspiration from sources beyond the purely musical as well.

Early on, the duo began working across artistic disciplines: composing music for theatre, setting texts, poems, and films to music, and performing in unusual spaces such as churches, caverns, dams, and small chambers. They have also created cross-media works at the intersection of visual art and music.

Kappeler-Zumthor have released two CDs: Babylon Suite (2014, ECM Records) and Herd (2021, Intakt Records). With their programs, they have performed on countless stages, both in Switzerland and far beyond.

VERA KAPPELER

Vera Kappeler was born in Basel in 1974 and grew up in the playroom, surrounded by radio, cassette recorder, piano, and many small instruments. In the youth orchestra she played xylophone and discovered her love for folk music and songs from around the world. She was also a child of the 1980s, loved the aesthetics and pop music of that era, and played it back on piano and the Yamaha DX7.

Later she discovered the great “classical piano repertoire” and jazz — she studied at the Winterthur Conservatory (now the Zurich University of the Arts) and has since taught piano, among other places, at the jazz department of the Lucerne School of Music and at the Kantonsschule Küsnacht near Zurich.

In her solo programs “Vera Kappeler Plays Paul Burkhard,” “Grandmother’s Grand Piano,” and “M:Monk,” she combines her interest in old chansons, simple dance and dinner music, and old music automatons with her penchant for sound experiments and idiosyncratic arrangements.

The pianist and harmonium player also regularly performs and records with various other projects. She lives in Haldenstein, near Chur.

PETER CONRADIN ZUMTHOR

This self-taught drummer, composer, and artist works 100% as a freelancer and performs on national and international stages with great independence, focusing almost exclusively on his own projects. His work ranges from composing for himself and others, solo concerts, theatre music, film scores, world premieres of new music, radio plays, children’s programs, sound installations, video works, and conceptual projects at the intersection of music and visual art—to setting literature to music and pure improvisation. In his 45-minute piece “things are going down,” Zumthor plays the piano while a piano tuner lowers the tension of the strings. His project “Glocken – con sordino,” in which Zumthor prepares church bells, has been performed dozens of times, from the Lucerne Festival to St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. He has served as musical director on multiple occasions for music theatre productions by Thom Luz. As an artist, he regularly creates works; his objects, installations, paintings, and videos have been exhibited and sold on numerous occasions.

LAURENT PETITGAND | COMPOSER

Laurent Petitgand is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and actor. Raised in a family of nine children, he sang in a religious choir between the ages of 7 and 14 before pursuing a self-taught artistic career — first alone, then within various bands.

With his musical group “Dick Tracy,” he composed his first film score for Wim Wenders in 1985, for the film TOKYO-GA, which marked the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration with the director: WINGS OF DESIRE – CIRCUS MUSIC, FARAWAY, SO CLOSE, BEYOND THE CLOUDS (with Michelangelo Antonioni), THE SALT OF THE EARTH (a journey with Sebastião Salgado), and POPE FRANCIS: A MAN OF HIS WORD, among others.

Alongside writing and performing his own songs, he has composed for theatre and dance, notably for Angelin Preljocaj’s ballets.

He wrote the score for Paul Auster’s final film, THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST, and performs regularly in concert.

COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES

ABOUT ROAD MOVIES

Road Movies was founded in Berlin in 1976 by Wim Wenders under the name “Road Movies Filmproduktion.” Since then, the Berlin-based company has produced more than 100 national and international productions and co-productions. Road Movies has many years of experience in the development and production of both fiction and documentary projects.

Its filmography includes feature films such as PARIS TEXAS, WINGS OF DESIRE (HER HIMMEL UBER BERLIN) and THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL, as well as documentaries such as BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, PINA, ANSELM (3D) and A BLACK JESUS by Luca Lucchesi.

With a total of four feature-length 3D films, the company has established itself as a leading force in this technology not only in cinema but also in the museum sector, through Wim Wenders’ installations TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT EDWARD HOPPER, presented at the Fondation Beyeler (Riehen/Basel) in 2020, and PRESENCE (2021).

The managing directors of Road Movies are Marc Schmidheiny and Wim Wenders. Karsten Brünig is a long-time producer at Road Movies and has collaborated with Wim Wenders on more than 10 projects, such as FARAWAY, SO CLOSE, DON’T COME KNOCKING and most recently the 3D documentary ANSELM.

ABOUT DCM

“Create to inspire”—that’s the driving force behind everything we release. Whether we’re producing our own films or acquiring top-tier titles for German-speaking markets, our mission remains the same across both the big screen and home entertainment: to inspire our audience.

Our production and co-production portfolio features acclaimed titles such as ASTRID, the fan-favourite BIBI & TINA series (Parts 1–5), FABIAN, LINDENBERG! DO YOUR THING, SACHERTORTE, DEATH AND SOPHIA, and the German Film Award winner for Best Children’s Film, WINNERS. On the acquisition side, we’ve brought home celebrated, award-winning cinema including THE ARTIST, I, TONYA, THE GREAT BEAUTY, MOONLIGHT, NAVALNY, SPENCER, AT ETERNITY’S GATE, PERFECT DAYS, ANSELM, and CIVIL WAR.

DCM was founded in 2008 as a film production house by Swiss trio Dario Suter, Christoph Daniel, and Marc Schmidheiny. When Joel Brandeis joined as a partner in 2010, the company rounded out its founding team. As of July 2025, Dario Suter serves as Managing Director of DCM Germany, overseeing the company’s entire film division. Meanwhile, the four partners have transitioned to the newly formed Board, focusing on DCM’s overarching strategic vision.

ABOUT HANWAY FILMS

HanWay Films is a UK-based financing, sales, distribution, and marketing company with a strong and established presence in the independent film marketplace.

The HanWay Films slate includes two world premieres at the upcoming Venice Film Festival: Werner Herzog’s BUCKING FASTARD, starring Kate Mara, Rooney Mara, Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson and Wim Wenders’ 3D documentary FROM INSIDE OUT: The Architecture of Peter Zumthor. Writer-director Niki Byrne’s THE JULIA SET, starring Chase Infiniti, Christopher Briney, Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson, is due to world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Special Presentations strand, where BUCKING FASTARD will also premiere.

Upcoming releases for the final quarter of 2026 include Paramount UK’s release of Jonatan Etzler’s English-language debut BAD APPLES starring Saoirse Ronan, on 18 September. Visual artist and photographer Alex Prager’s debut feature DREAMQUIL, starring Elizabeth Banks and John C. Reilly, will theatrically release in the US on 25 September. Vertigo will release Molly Manners’ feature debut EXTRA GEOGRAPHY in the UK on 2 October, following its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Cohen Media Group will release Kasia Adamik’s WINTER OF THE CROW, starring Lesley Manville and executive produced by Agnieszka Holland, in US cinemas on 9 October, followed by a UK release from Signature Entertainment on 16 October.

Releasing theatrically in Q1 2027 will be David Michael’s feature debut horror THE THIRD PARENT starring Rob Lowe and Crispin Glover through Bleecker Street, and Olive Nwosu’s Sundance Special Jury Prize-winning debut feature LADY through the Cohen Media Group.

Upcoming films in post-production include BILLION DOLLAR SPY, produced by Walden Media and directed by Amma Asante, starring Russell Crowe and Harry Lawtey; horror director David Slade’s latest feature LEGACY, starring Lucy Hale, Jack Whitehall, and Anjelica Huston; and Charlotte Colbert’s second feature BECOMING CAPA, starring Mark Eydelshteyn and Esther McGregor.

HanWay Films’ slate of films in pre-production includes Kitty Green’s THE SPACESUIT; Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ Paris-set thriller QUEST FOR LOVE; Scottish auteur Ben Sharrock’s ALONE TOGETHER; Jonathan Krisel’s “coming-of-rage” comedy HEY BEAR; Justin Chadwick’s period love story THE SPECIES; award-winning playwright and author Jordan Tannahill’s feature directorial debut RAPTURE; Christopher Smith’s reboot of cult horror CREEP; and Ramin Bahrani’s redemption prison drama LAST MEALS.

HanWay – The Collections represents over 500 films showcasing the very best in filmmaking talent. HanWay the Collections is proud to be working on the 30th-anniversary re-release of the new 4k restorations of SHINE directed by Scott Hicks and VINCENT directed by Paul Cox. The Wim Wenders collection features 26 timeless classics including WINGS OF DESIRE, BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB as well as Wenders’ 3D documentaries PINA and ANSELM which premiered in Cannes 2023. Recent restorations also include Wenders’ PARIS, TEXAS which premiered at the 2024 edition of Cannes Classics, 40 years after the film won the Palme d’Or in 1984.

Cohen Media Group acquired HanWay Films in 2022.

For more information, please visit www.hanwayfilms.com.

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