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

I’m Jules Guarneri, a filmmaker based in Vevey, Switzerland.
I started with ski films before shifting towards narrative projects.
I have worked as a director, cinematographer and editor on documentaries since 2015.

I try to make intimate, personal films that tell unconventional and often quirky stories.

Feature films

2027Tant qu’il y aura de la neigeIn editingdirector | editor | cameradop

Growing up with freestyle skiing, I saw the mountains as a place of unlimited freedom and mesmerizing beauty. I spent my teenage years filming my friends hitting jumps and rails around the world. But one day, I started to wonder what it was really all about. Tant qu’il y aura de la neige is a personal quest to find out what makes snow so appealing.

Still from Tant qu’il y aura de la neige: a man wearing headphones stands in the snow, with a city skyline behind him.

Produced by Intermezzo Films, Luc Peter, Katia Monla
Directed, filmed and edited by Jules Guarneri
Sound : Timothée Crettaz, Camille Bonard
Creative collaborator : Benoît Goncerut

2025Be Boriseditor | cameradop

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 Waycameradop

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 | cameradop

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

2021Nostromocameradop

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.

A small forested island surrounded by the blue waters of a lake.

A man seen from a low angle inside a wooden cabin.

An outdoor scene lit by a headlamp at night.

A hooded man looking across the water at dusk.

A man in an orange suit aiming a rifle in the forest.

Two men beside a boat with a forest in the background.

The silhouette of a man against green light at night.

1 / 9

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

2020Fin de Partiecameradop

After an international and successful career as a football manager, 70-year-old Bernard Challandes embarks on a last perilous challenge: to coach the Kosovo National Football Team, the youngest football team in the world. The film follows one year of this new challenge: a portrait of a man who constantly delays the ineluctable final whistle on his life and his career.

Bernard Challandes talking to a player inside a building.

Bernard Challandes coaching the Kosovo national football team.

Bernard Challandes walking down a corridor, reflected in the glass wall.

A young football player during an interview.

Bernard Challandes writing in a notebook on a balcony.

1 / 5

Produced by Close Up Films, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Directed by Fisnik Maxville
Written by Fisnik Maxville, Benoît Goncerut
Filmed by Jules Guarneri
Edited by Kostas Makrinos
Sound : Frédéric Goncerut
Music : Nicolas Rabaeus

2018Zvicraeditor | cameradop

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 | cameradop

The 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 | cameradop

After a professional skiing career marked by injuries, successes and setbacks, Greg Tuscher is now head coach of the Swiss freestyle ski team. The opposite of a careerist, he has taken an unpredictable path, full of unexpected 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 | cameradop

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 têtecameradop

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

A motorcyclist at an illuminated petrol station at night.

People applauding at an indoor gathering.

A man playing a wooden flute in front of the mountains.

Two men talking beside vintage cars at an outdoor gathering.

1 / 4

Produced by Superstructure, ZED, Canal+
Directed by Yann Gross
Cinematography Jules Guarneri
Edited by Basile Belkhiri
Sound : Frédéric Goncerut

2017La Vallée Heureuseeditor | cameradop

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 | cameradop

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 | cameradop

Produced by Cause, We Ride In Iran, Arnaud Cottet
Directed, filmed & edited by Jules Guarneri

Ski films

2025Inefficient Joyeditor

Directed by Laurent De Martin
Edited by Jules Guarneri
Director of photography : Jackson Lana
Featuring Sampo Vallotton, Laurent De Martin

2019Heatseekerdirector | editor | cameradop

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 | cameradop

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 | cameradop

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 | cameradop

Directed by Nicolas Vuignier & Jules Guarneri
Edited by Jules Guarneri & Nicolas Vuignier
Filmed by Jules Guarneri
Featuring Nicolas Vuignier, Sampo Vallotton, Florian Bruchez