Calabria is Pierre-François Sauter’s second feature film. In 2009, he directed Facing the Judge, a documentary which was screened in 30 theatres in Switzerland. Earlier projects include working for the television program “Strip-tease” put on by the Belgian RTBF, and directing some fifty documentary portraits on behalf of the “Voilà” program on the Swiss SF1 DRS.

Earlier still, Mr. Sauter worked at two printmaking studios in respectively Lausanne and Milan: his prints were shown in several galleries in Switzerland.

Pierre-François Sauter spent his childhood in Mozambique, then he lived and worked in Lisbon, Paris, Brussels and Lausanne. Since 2003, he devoted himself to producing and directing his own films.