Natascha Vavrina

Cinematographer

Born in 1992 in Burgdorf, Switzerland. In 2012, she completed the preliminary design course in Lucerne, specialising in visual image design photography and video. The following year, she enrolled in the bachelor‘s programme in film at the ZHdK (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) and received her diploma in 2018. At ZHdK she was a founding member of the film club Klub Kuleshov.
Since then she has been working as a freelance cinematographer and camera assistant. Her clients in advertising include such well-known companies as Migros, they SBB and Galaxus or Mobiliar. In 2019, she was awarded the German Camera Prize for Best Young Camera. She lives in Zurich.

Filmography
(a selection)

Director

2018
Mach keis Fass uf by Natascha Vavrina

Cinematographer

2025
Wyrot by Omid Taslimi
2024
Die wundersame Verwandlung der Arbeiterklasse in Ausländer by Samir
2024
Under the ice by Michel Kessler, David Oesch
2023
Letzte Nacht by Lea Bloch
2021
Gaze by Tillo Spreng, Etienne Kompis
2020
Elysium by Kathrin Schweizer
2019
Anna Dongmu by Hae-Sup Sin
2018
Echo by Jelena Pavlovic
2017
ZIK by Diego Hauenstein
2016
J'ai tout donné au soleil sauf mon ombre by Valérie Anex, Christian Johannes Koch

Awards

(a selection)

2019
Köln, 29. Deutscher Kamerapreis 2019, Deutscher Kamerapreis - Nachwuchspreis Kamera (Winner) in Echo
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