JULES GUARNERIdocumentary filmmakerEMAIL
A man at an editing desk, facing a window overlooking the lake and mountains.

I’m Jules Guarneri, a filmmaker based in Lausanne, Switzerland. I started with ski films and have worked as a director, cinematographer and editor on documentaries since 2014.

My work explores human stories, often unconventional and quirky, with a particular interest in personal approaches to storytelling.

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Feature films
2025Be Boriseditor | camera

Boris, 38, is a film lover whose unemployment benefits are running out. His childhood friend Benoît, an entrepreneur with a very different outlook on work, follows him for a year, exploring their friendship and the possibility of a life beyond productivity.

Produced by Visceral Films, Fisnik Maxville
Directed by Benoît Goncerut
Written by Benoît Goncerut & Boris Siemaszko
Filmed & edited by Jules Guarneri
festivals
solothurn, 61. solothurn film festival 
vevey, vevey international funny film festival 2025
2023The Wonder Waycamera

From her grandmother’s garden to California via the Mojave Desert and the cosmos, Emmanuelle Antille takes us on a journey to out-of-the-ordinary places, as we meet the people who created, imagined or discovered them. The Wonder Way is a free and personal quest, an inner exploration and a journey in search of unusual—but very real—spaces.

Produced by Intermezzo Films, Rubis Films, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Directed by Emmanuelle Antille
Filmed by Emmanuelle Antille, Jules Guarneri, Sayaka Mizuno, Carmen Jaquier
Edited by Emmanuelle Antille, Natascha De Grandi, Laurence Vaes
awards
special jury award (national competiton), visions du réel 2023

festivals
nyon, visions du réel 2023
tirana, tirana international film festival 2023
soleure, les journées de soleure 2024
2022Le Film de mon pèredirector | editor | camera

A father records his daily life and gives the footage to his son, asking him to turn it into his first film. Jules takes up the camera to explore his family and his father’s hopes of passing something on, finding a path towards emancipation through this material.

Produced by Intermezzo Films, Luc Peter & Katia Monla
Directed, filmed and edited by Jules Guarneri
Written by Jules Guarneri & Arnaud Robert
Editing collaborator : Myriam Rachmuth
awards
special jury award (national competition), visions du réel 2022

festivals
nyon, visions du réel 2022
namur, 37. festival international du film francophone de namur 
mexico, black canvas contemporary film festival 2022 
la rochelle, escales documentaires 2022
riga, riga pasaules film festival 2023
cologne, edimotion 24. festival für filmschnitt und montagekunst
2021Nostromocamera

Arrived from France, Olivier lives like Robinson on an island lent to him by indigenous people, 200 km from Yellowknife, the only town in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Three visitors disturb this solitude, by re-enacting, in front of Fisnik Maxville’s camera, the “drama” of the first contact, in which a historically constituted mutual mistrust surfaces.

Produced by Close Up Films
Directed by Fisnik Maxville
Filmed by Jules Guarneri
Edited by Kostas Makrinos
Music : Nicolas Rabaeus
awards
best film (national competition), visions du réel 2021

festivals
nyon, visions du réel 2021
são paulo, 45. mostra são paulo 2021
solothurn, 57. solothurner filmtage
murcia, ibaff 2022
prizren, 21. dokufest
2018Zvicraeditor | camera

Through the lives of Albanians and Kosovars living in Switzerland, Zvicra explores the shifting meaning of home and belonging. Their stories offer different answers to a shared question: what does being Swiss mean today?

Produced by Visceral Films, Cause
Directed by Fisnik Maxhuni & Benoît Goncerut
Filmed by Jules Guarneri, Nikola Sanz, Fisnik Maxhuni
Edited by Jules Guarneri
Music : Boris Gétaz
festivals
prizren, 17. dokufest 
tirana, tirana international film festival 2018
bruxelles, 2018 brussels mediterranean film festival
Short films
2025The Ghost Resorts: Super Saint-Bernarddirector | editor | camera

Ghost Resorts is a documentary series exploring abandoned ski areas that once thrived. This episode revisits Le Super Saint-Bernard, a resort on the border between Switzerland and Italy.

Produced by Black Crows Skis, Camille Jaccoux
Directed by Julien Roserens & Jules Guarneri
Filmed & edited by Jules Guarneri & Julien Roserens
2024Been There, Done Thatdirector | editor | camera

After a professional skiing career marked by podium finishes, injuries, successes and setbacks, Gregory Tuscher is now head coach of the Swiss freestyle ski team. A true freestyler and the opposite of a careerist, he has taken an unpredictable path, full of extraordinary stories, to a job he never planned on.

Produced by RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Passe-moi les jumelles
Directed by Jules Guarneri & Benoît Goncerut
Filmed & edited by Jules Guarneri
Sound : Camille Bonard, Frédéric Goncerut
awards
diable d’or, festival international du film alpin des diablerets 2024
prix du jury, champéry film festival 2024
2022Mustafa Ceylandirector | editor | camera

Meet the underdog of the Swiss ski scene. As a young Turkish immigrant, Mustafa was destined to play football and take over his parents’ kebab restaurant. But one day, fate put a pair of skis in his way.

Produced by Black Crows Skis, Camille Jaccoux, Cause
Directed by Jules Guarneri & Benoît Goncerut
Filmed & edited by Jules Guarneri
awards
prix des jeunes, festival international du film alpin des diablerets 2022
prix du public, 33. festival image montagne de pau 2022
best story, ona short film festival 2023



festivals
banff mountain film festival (world tour) 2024
festival international du film alpin des diablerets 2022
pau, 33. festival image montagne de pau 2022
trento, trento film festival 2023
venise, ona short film festival 2023
2019Des aigles au-dessus de la têtecamera

Mitch is approaching his fifties but has kept the rebellious spirit of his adolescence. In a constant quest for freedom, he prepares his « survival bike » and plays heavy metal at the foot of the Grand Muveran, in the Chablais region. The perception of his environment changes when his friend Serge, a biker from the God’s Squad, shows him how to play the Native American flute.

Watch here : https://www.canalplus.com/decouverte/hobbies/h/12412476_50001

Produced by Superstructure, ZED, Canal+
Directed by Yann Gross
Cinematography Jules Guarneri
Edited by Basile Belkhiri
Sound : Frédéric Goncerut
2017La Vallée Heureuseeditor | camera

In northern Iran, a young boy rides his motorcycle towards the Caspian Sea in search of a mythical stone supposed to bring happiness. On his journey he crosses paths with those who, before him, have tried to find it as well.

Produced by Visceral Films
Written & directed by Fisnik Maxhuni
Filmed & edited by Jules Guarneri
Music by Boris Gétaz
festivals
winterthur, 21. internationale kurzfilmtage 2017
solothurn, 53. solothurner filmtage 2018
sao paulo, 29. sao paulo international short film festival 2018
2016Dizin Opendirector | editor | camera

Winter 2016, the first-ever Iranian freestyle championship is held in Dizin, a ski resort two hours north of Tehran.

Produced by Cause, We Ride In Iran, Arnaud Cottet, Benoît Goncerut
Directed, filmed & edited by Julien Roserens & Jules Guarneri
2015Salam Azizamdirector | editor | camera
Produced by Cause, We Ride In Iran, Arnaud Cottet
Directed, filmed & edited by Jules Guarneri
Ski films
2025Inefficient Joyeditor
Directed by Laurent De Martin
Written by Laurent De Martin, Jules Guarneri, Jackson Lana
Edited by Jules Guarneri
Director of photography : Jackson Lana
Featuring Sampo Vallotton, Laurent De Martin
2019Heatseekerdirector | editor | camera
Directed by Nicolas Vuignier & Jules Guarneri
Edited by Nicolas Vuignier & Jules Guarneri
Filmed by Jules Guarneri
Featuring Sam Anthamatten, Nicolas Vuignier, Jérémie Heitz, Laurent De Martin, Florian Bruchez, Mathieu Schaer
MAKING OF :

2018High Beamsdirector | editor | camera
Directed by Nicolas Vuignier & Jules Guarneri
Edited by Nicolas Vuignier & Jules Guarneri
Filmed by Jules Guarneri
Featuring Markus Eder, Nicolas Vuignier, Jérémie Heitz, Florian Bruchez, Alex Neurohr
2016Torcheddirector | editor | camera
Directed by Nicolas Vuignier & Jules Guarneri
Edited by Jules Guarneri & Nicolas Vuignier
Filmed by Jules Guarneri
Featuring Nicolas Vuignier, Sammy Carlson, Mathieu Schaer, Greg Tuscher, Aurel Anthamatten
MAKING OF :

2016PBK1director | editor | camera
Directed by Nicolas Vuignier & Jules Guarneri
Edited by Jules Guarneri & Nicolas Vuignier
Filmed by Jules Guarneri
Featuring Nicolas Vuignier, Sampo Vallotton, Florian Bruchez