From 1992 to 1999, he produced and line-produced a dozen short films, such as Perfect Day by Reza Rezaï and Talon d’Achille by Nicholas Cuthbert.
In 2001, he directed and produced his first feature film, Neutre that is released on Swiss cinema screens the same year, then on television in 2003 and on DVD throughout Switzerland.
The same year, he co-produced with the TSR the documentary Geisha, The Twilight of Flowers, broadcast on TSR2 on December 6, 2004 and sold to numerous TV channels.
He produced Ryna, Ruxandra Zenide’s first feature, released in Swiss theaters in 2006 and selected in many festivals, where it won numerous awards, among others at Cinéma Tout Ecran, Mannheim-Heidelberg, Tromso, Annonay and Milan.
Xavier Ruiz has finished his second feature film Verso and directed the Swiss version of Spitting Image, named Les Bouffons de la Confédération.