Christoph Schaub’s career in filming begins during the youth movement in Zurich in the summer of 1980. The young political filmmaker produces his first films with the film production company Videoladen.
With almost thirty fiction and documentary films, Christoph Schaub now belongs to the most influential and active Swiss filmmakers. He directed several documentaries devoted to architectural themes such as SANTIAGO CALATRAVA’S TRAVELS (2000) or BIRD’S NEST – HERZOG & DE MEURON IN CHINA (2008) both selected for the Locarno Film Festival. To a wide audience he is known for his awrd winnng fiction film JULIA’S DISAPPEARANCE (2009) and his most recent comedy AMUR SENZA FIN (2018). His multifaceted body of work has been honoured with a restrospective at the Solothurn Film Days in 2018.
Together with his cinematic work, Christoph is also involved in the film industry. In 1980, he established with a group of like-minded individuals a cinema in the autonomous youth centre in Zurich (AJZ), wich later turned into the the arthouse cinema Xenix. In 1996 he was involved in funding the company Neugass-Cinemas Zurich and Lucerne, of which Christoph has been the president of the board until 2018. For a time, he collaborated also as a board of the foundations Swiss Films and Zurich Filmfund, just to name a few of his engagements.