Christine Wiederkehr studied film in Lausanne at the ECAL and in Zurich at the ZHdK. Her diploma short film Floh! (English title: Flea!) was highly regarded and received many awards including the German Newcomer Award First Steps in Berlin, the Sponsorship Award of the Zürich University of Art and was short listed for the student Academy Awards (Oscars).
Since then, she has directed numerous high-profile, award-winning campaigns. She is driven to create outstanding films with unforgettable images. Her work is emotionally and aesthetically strong, with a poetic pulse. She was nominated for the Young Director’s Award in Cannes and is a member of the jury for the EDI (Swiss Comissioned and Commercial Film Award).
She has attended masterclasses on dramaturgy, script development and acting with Helen Jacey, Oliver Stone, James V. Hart, Giles Forman, Amanda Brennan, Barbara Fischer and Rob Marchand.
Christine has received numerous grants an won the Zurich Film Festival’s Treatment Award as well as a scholarship from the SSA (Société des Auteurs Suisses). Her most recent project, 7 Fois (English title: 7 Times), starring Luna Wedler, won, among other honors, Best International Fiction in Dublin, the 2024 Zurich Film Award for Best Screenplay, and received a nomination for the 2025 Swiss Film Award. In collaboration with Pierre Monnard, she directed two episodes of Winter Palace, a historical Netflix series co-produced with Swiss Television (TSR) and France. The series premiered on Netflix in February 2025. She is currently in pre-production for the ZDFneo series Crystal Wall. Furthermore, she is developing several feature film scripts with co-writer Mona Petri.
Christine Wiederkehr lives in Zurich with cinematographer Filip Zumbrunn and their two grown-up daughters.