Christian Frei

Christian Frei takes us along a perimeter that both divides and unites individuals and cultures: the tectonics of humanity.

The film shows his protagonist to be a shy and reserved man, far from the hothead image associated with his profession.

It is an essay "on faith and fanaticism, tolerance and terrorism, identity and ignorance, the ephemeral and our feeble attempts to preserve it".

[11] In 2014, Sleepless in New York premiered in competition at Visions du Réel, the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival.

Helen Fisher, an American biological anthropologist, reveals the astounding and profound processes that unfold in the brain of the lovesick.

[12] Working again with DOP Peter Indergand, they developed a spherical mirror to capture the solitude of the broken-hearted.

[13] As producer, Frei released Raving Iran, the first feature-length documentary directed by Susanne Regina Meures.

Genesis 2.0 follows mammoth hunters on the remote New Siberian Islands and portrays clone researchers and synthetic biologists in South Korea, China and USA.