Sonja Kilbertus
Producer
Born in 1981 in Austria. She works as film producer and documentary filmmaker. From 2020-24 she was head of the film commission of the Canton Aargau, a lecturer for the Master's degree at Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art (HSLU) and a trainer for non-violent communication. She is a member of the Swiss Film Academy, the European Film Academy and of several Swiss film associations. She produced AMONG US WOMEN (2021) which premiered at DOK Leipzig and went on to screen at over 42 festivals. For DokLab she produced OSTROV – LOST ISLAND (2021) by Svetlana Rodina and Laurent Stoop. The film was awarded Best International Feature Documentary at Hotdocs and Swiss Film Award, Best Documentary Film in 2022, among further awards worldwide. Sonja lives in Bern, produces and writes for Mira Film and teaches story development in the MA Film programme at HSLU (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Design Film Art). She holds a BKÖS Film Art Scholarship 2024 from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Filmography
(a selection)
Producer
- 2025
- Volatiles (working title) by Antshi von Moos
- 2023
- Those Blue Skies by Adrian Kelterborn
- 2022
- Urban Genesis by Dodo Hunziker
- 2021
- Ostrov – Die verlorene Insel by Svetlana Rodina, Laurent Stoop
- 2019
- Las Hermanas de Rocinante by Alexandra Kaufmann
- 2019
- Body of Truth by Evelyn Schels
- Among Us Woman by Sarah Noa Bozenhardt, Daniel Abate Tilahun