Together with his producer-brother Silvan, writer-director-editor Ramon Zürcher (born in 1982) has been responsible for three of the most original feature films of the last decade: The Strange Little Cat (2013), winner of numerous awards, including the Audience Award at the Viennale; The Girl and the Spider (2021), winner of the Best Director and FIPRESCI (International Critics) prizes in the Encounters section of the Berlin festival; and now The Sparrow in the Chimney, nominated for the Golden Leopard at the recent Locarno festival. The working title for his next feature is The Young Woman with the Crowbar.