Filip Zumbrunn

Cinematographer

He started working in the Filmindustry as an Electrician and then as a Clapper/Loader. From 1992 on he was working as a First Camera-Assistant and Focus Puller for many different Commercial-, Corporate-, Documentary- and Feature Films. Since 2000 he works as a freelance Director of Photography. 2005 he wins the Special Jury-price for Best Cinematography at the Swiss Film Price with STRÄHL (2004). 2008 Award for Best Cinematography at the Brooklyn International Filmfestival for FUORI DALLE CORDE by Fulvio Bernasconi. 2017 he is nominated for Best Cinematography at the Swiss Film Price for MISERICORDE by Fulvio Bernasconi. Filip Zumbrunn is a member of the European- and of the Swiss Film Academy and lives with his wife and two daughters in Zurich, Switzerland. 2021 Swiss Film Award, Best Cinematography for MY LITTLE SISTER (Schwesterlein) by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond.

Filmography
(a selection)

Cinematographer

2025
Siri Hustvedt – The Blazing World by Sabine Lidl
2024
7 Fois by Christine Wiederkehr
2024
Misty – The Erroll Garner Story by Georges Gachot
2024
Winter Palace by Pierre Monnard, Christine Wiederkehr
2024
Ein Haus für Lars by Barbara B. Peter
2023
Las Toreras by Jackie Brutsche
2023
Die Mittagsfrau by Barbara Albert
2021
Und morgen seid ihr tot by Michael Steiner
2020
Schwesterlein by Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
2017
Mind & Life – Early Dialogues by Franz Reichle, Juliette Forster
2016
The Chinese Lives Of Uli Sigg by Michael Schindhelm
2016
Miséricorde by Fulvio Bernasconi
2013
Sitting Next To Zoe by Ivana Lalovic
2013
Night Train To Lisbon by Bille August
2013
Montauk by Vinz Feller
2012
Eine wen iig, dr Dällebach Kari by Xavier Koller
2011
One Way Trip (3D) by Markus Welter
2011
The Guantanamo Trap by Thomas Selim Wallner
2010
Sonntagsvierer by Sabine Boss
2010
Daniel Schmid – Le chat qui pense by Benny Jaberg, Pascal Hofmann
2010
Bad Boy Kummer by Miklós Gimes
2009
Fix Me by Raed Andoni
2009
Giulias Verschwinden by Christoph Schaub
2008
Mission Eternity by Andrea Reiter
2008
Marcello Marcello by Denis Rabaglia
2007
Telling Strings by Anne-Marie Haller
2007
Fuori dalle corde by Fulvio Bernasconi
2006
Grounding by Michael Steiner, Tobias Fueter
2005
Angry Monk by Luc Schaedler
2005
Unser America by Kristina Konrad
2005
Floh! by Christine Wiederkehr
2004
Strähl by Manuel Flurin Hendry
2004
Höllentour by Pepe Danquart, Werner Swiss Schweizer
2004
Downtown Switzerland by Christian Davi, Stefan Haupt, Kaspar Kasics, Fredi M. Murer
2004
Dimitri – Clown by Friedrich Kappeler
2004
Stephan@Nadelöhr.Zürich by Gaby Schädler
2001
Gopf in Africa by Christian Davi

Awards

(a selection)

2008
Brooklyn, Brooklyn International Film Festival, Certificate for Outstanding Achievement - Best Cinematography (Winner) in Fuori dalle corde
2017
Genève, Swiss Film Award 2017, Swiss Film Award, Best Cinematography (Nomination) in Miséricorde
2009
Zürich, Zürcher Filmpreis 2009, Zürcher Filmpreis (Spezialpreis für besondere Verdienste im Schweizer Film) (Winner)
2005
Solothurn, Swiss Film Award 2005, Swiss Film Award, Special Jury Prize (Winner) in Strähl
2021
Genève, Swiss Film Award 2021, Swiss Film Award, Best Cinematography (Winner) in Schwesterlein
2022
Zürich, Swiss Film Award 2022, Best Cinematography (Nomination) in Und morgen seid ihr tot
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