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Séverine Cornamusaz

Born in 1975 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Graduated from the Vevey School of Photography and the New York Film Academy. CŒUR ANIMAL is her first fiction feature film (Swiss Film Prize 2010: Best film and Best actor). CYANURE, her second fiction feature film, a Swiss-Canadian co-production, was released in February 2013. She directed a historical documentary: 14-18 DES ENFANTS BELGES EN SUISSE (2018).

From 1997 to 2005, she worked as an editor. Since 2003, she has been teaching cinema – screenwriting, directing, directing the actors, regularly in Switzerland and France.