Cristina Perincioli (born November 11, 1946, in Bern, Switzerland) is a Swiss film director, writer, multimedia producer and webauthor.

In 1975, together with her partner Cäcilia Rentmeister, she wrote the screenplay for the first feature film about a lesbian relationship on German television, Anna und Edith (ZDF).

Perincioli describes this as a contemporary witness in the rbb TV documentary series Berlin - Schicksalsjahre einer Stadt and also states how the women's movement of the 1970s found a particularly favourable climate as a "fast breeder" of pioneering ideas and practical projects under the "West Berlin cheese bell“ [7] Perincioli published as radio- and book author.

From 1990 she developed interactive storytelling, and on this basis, two adventure game with interactive video (1992,1996), and created seven computer serious games for the public space ("Loud is Out", "Oh, the Few Drops", "Female, Male – and In-Between", "Culture Tester Rebellion")[8] She has taught at Kenya Institute of Mass Communication in Nairobi, the Berlin University of the Arts, the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg, the Merz Akademie, and the Schule für Gestaltung Bern und Biel.

[9] From the late 1990s on, Perincioli ventured to use interactive media for "sensitive issues" such as sexual and domestic violence; she created – employing user-friendly methods such as Discovery learning – award-winning web internet portals for understanding, counselling and preventing violence, funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation,[10] the Foundation Deutsche Jugendmarke,[11] the Daphne Programme of the European Commission[12] and the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

Living in a village in Brandenburg since 2003 she keeps goats, makes cheese and manages and transforms her pineforest into a climat reslient mixed forest.

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster writes about her directorial work: "Cristina Perincioli is an important figure in the tradition of Straub, Huillet an Fassbinder ..." (in "Women Film Directors.