Home

Silvan Zürcher (b. 1982)

Birthplace:
Aarberg, Switzerland

Born:
January 1, 1982

Biography from TheMovieDB

Silvan Zürcher (1982 in Aarberg, Switzerland) studied Philosophy, Film Studies and German at the Universities of Bern and Zurich from 2002 to 2008. Along the way he worked as a projectionist in an art house cinema in Bern. From 2009 to 2014 he studied film production at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). During his studies he produced short and medium-length films. In addition, he worked as an assistant director and developed his own material for feature films. His first feature film DAS MERKWÜRDIGE KÄTZCHEN premiered in 2013 at the Forum of the Berlinale and was subsequently celebrated at numerous international festivals and won many awards. In 2017, he founded the production company Zürcher Film together with his brother Ramon Zürcher, with whom they co-produced their second feature film DAS MÄDCHEN UND DIE SPINNE. The film had its world premiere in the Encounters international competition at the Berlinale in 2021 and won the Best Director Award and the FIPRESCI Prize.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Film Production

Director:
2021  The Girl and the Spider

First Assistant Director:
2017  Sarah Plays a Werewolf
2021  The Girl and the Spider

Producer:
2011  Portrait
2013  Teufel
2013  The Strange Little Cat
2017  Sarah Plays a Werewolf
2021  The Girl and the Spider
2024  The Sparrow in the Chimney

Writer:
2011  Portrait
2013  Teufel
2013  The Strange Little Cat
2017  Sarah Plays a Werewolf
2021  The Girl and the Spider
2024  The Sparrow in the Chimney

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.