Silvan Zürcher was born in 1982. From 2002 to 2008 he studied philosophy, film studies and German studies at the Universities of Bern and Zurich. Simultaneously, he worked as a projectionist at a cinema in Bern. From 2009 to 2014 he studied film production at the German Film and TV Academy Berlin (DFFB). During his degree, he produced a series of short and medium-length films. On the side, he works as a director’s assistant and develops his own material for fiction films. In 2013 he completed his degree with his first feature-length fiction film The Strange Little Cat, which went on to receive several awards.
