Julian M. Grünthal
Director, Author, Cinematographer
DIRECTING FILM
2022 The Loyal Father, music video for Anat Porat, Director, DOP
2021 Becoming Momo, Instagram Series, Codirector, Presence Prod & Swiss TV SRF
2020 Sabotage, short thriller, Presence Production, Director/Author, in festivals
2020 The girl Mo, marionette short, Presence Production, Director/Camera, festival applications
2019 Hakuna Matata, Music Video for Sandro Dietrich, Presence Production, Director/Camera
2019 To the Sea, Short, Director/Script. Winnerjury prize Ourense Festival, Alcine Festival Madrid, Int.Short Film Festival Winterthur, Solothurner Filmtage , Max Ophyls Festival Saarbrücken
2019 Sanduhr, Music Video for Gimma, Presence Production, Director/Camera
2019 Eh nid Ewig, Music Video for Gimma , Presence Production, Director/Camera
2019 Take a Ride, Music Video for Gimma, Presence Production, Director/Camera
2018 Advertisement Obersee Bilingual School: Director/Camera/Editing
2017 Onlinespots Graubündner Kantonal-Bank: clip1, clip2, clip3, clip 4, Director/Camera
2015 Ninnananna, Music Video, Director/Camera
2015/16, POLDER , Feature, Co-Directing with Samuel Schwarz, Sci-Fi, Coproduction
Switzerland/Germany (SRF, SWR, Niama Films, Dschoint Ventschr, Kamm(m)acher)
2015 BASLER INSURANCE online advertisement: clip1, clip2, clip3, Director/Script/Camera
2015 MR HASLINGER, Short, Director/Script/Camera
2015 Freak, written by Amanda Alm, Director
2015 MIRROR , Musicvideo for Rahel Buchhold, Director/Camera
2014 Braids, Short, Director/Script/Camera
2014 CHLAPEC - THE BOY , Short, Director/Script/Camera
2011 MARY & JOHNNY , feature, Co-Directing with Samuel Schwarz, Switzerland. Zurich Film
Festival, Hofer Filmtage, Filmfestival Solothurn, special mention at Filmfestival Saarbrücken.
2011 SUMER WIE DE , Music video, EMI
DIRECTING THEATRE
2022 Air and Skin, international poetry and singer songwriter project, author, director
2022 Der kleine Siebenschläfer, Children's play, codirector, producer
2022 Die Kleine, Theatre world premiere, Author with S.Freibach, director
2020 Piz Palü, Neue Bühne Arosa Schnfigg, Author with M.Hottinger, Actor. Klibühni Chur,
Kunsthaus Zürich
2019 Ronja Räubertochter, Freie Bühne Chur/Stadttheater Chur, Team with Charlotte Engelbert
2018 Radio Lukullus, Open air Summer Theatre Freilichtspiele Chur, Directing Team with Shir
Freibach, London
2018 Findling, Winkelwiese Zürich, Director
2017 Ich hebe meine Augen hinauf zum Tamangur, music theatre, Director, Author, Actor
2016 Cyrano, Open Air Summer Theatre Chur (FRECH), Director
2014 Zarathustra-Nietzsche in Chur, Stadttheater Chur (Churer Ensemble, 400asa) Director
2013 Zarathustra Zürich, (Churer Ensemble, 400asa) Director
2013 Zarathustra Sils Maria (Churer Ensemble, 400asa, Zürcher Festspiele) Dir.-team
2013 Der Polder, Theaterfassung Bern & Zürich (400asa), Dir.-team
2012/13 Frollein Rache (Grenzgänger-Zürich), Director & Author (both together with Shir
Freibach, London)
2012 Der Teich, Zürcher Festspiele, Director
2012 Moral Kill, Student theatre Luzern, Südpol Luzern, Director
2012 New Swiss Wave-Life without Germans, Spiegeltheater, Theater Stok, Kleintheater Luzern,
Director
2011/12 Mary&Johnny, Feature Film, Dir.-Team with S. Schwarz
2011/12 winner Premio Theatre Prize with Nico’s Love, (Grenzgänger) Kleintheater Luzern, Tojo
Bern, Fabriktheater Rote Fabrik
2010-2011Checkpoint. Israel-Palestine in our heads, Südpol Luzern, Schlachthaus Bern, Message
Salon Zürich, Vorstadttheater Basel, Schauwerk Schaffhausen, Theater Tuchlaube Aarau.
Director/Script/Producer
2010 La Cérémonie, part of the program Swiss-Chinese Cultural explorations / Culturescapes
Festival, Theater Gessnerallee, Peng Hao Theatre Peking, Theaterspektakel Zürich,
Schlachthaustheater Bern, Stadttheater Bern, Co-Director with S. Schwarz
2009-2011 Jenatsch, 400asa und dem Churer Ensemble. Theater Chur, Rote Fabrik
Zürich, Choreographie,
2007- 2010 The Bus, Theater Chur, Gastspiele im Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich, Auawirleben-
Festival Bern, Festival Politik im freien Theater Köln, Acco Festival (Israel 2010) Directing
team, Director Israeli Adaptation
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