Manuela Steiner

Director, Screenwriter

Born 1980 in Lucerne, Switzerland. 2008 Receives degree in Religious Studies, English Literature and Cultural Anthropology, from Université de Fribourg. Attends courses at the Master School Drehbuch in Berlin. 2014 Receives degree in Screenwriting and Dramaturgy from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Since 2017 board member of the Association of Romansh Filmmakers “Cineasts Rumantschs”. Works as a director, author and dramatist for film, radio plays and stage productions. Received the work grant of the Canton of Graubünden in 2020.

Filmography
(a selection)

Director

2025
Ester Poly – Sin via en Tunesia by Manuela Steiner
2020
Nossa Chasa by Manuela Steiner

Screenwriter

2025
Ester Poly – Sin via en Tunesia by Manuela Steiner
2020
Nossa Chasa by Manuela Steiner
2014
Wrong Planet by Iris Fegerl
2013
Drinnen ist Draussen by Thomas Brekle
2011
Container by Thomas Brekle
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