Drawn to the edges —telling stories shaped by place.
Films from the margins of Europe.
Currently in the Romansh valleys of Graubünden, Switzerland.
Selected Works.
Director / DP.
Documentary work from 2025 centred on rural life, philosophy, craft, and landscape expressed through Serra. An Otherlands project.
Lives unfold at the edges — shaped by land, memory, and craft.
I follow them through film and writing, staying until a story reveals itself.
Recent work.
Documentary.
Fexer: A Knifemaker & An Ancient Alpine Language
In the remote Val Fex, a blacksmith forges knives inspired by the mountains that shaped his family for generations — as the valley around him is quietly transformed.
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Currently in production — scheduled to release in winter 2026.
Directed by Adrian Howell
Featuring Roger Rominger
Produced by Otherlands
Recent work.
Documentary.
Ausländer
A British boy and a Portuguese dog arrive in a small Swiss village in the Engadine valley. The village has its own language, its own rhythms, its own ancient marks carved into the walls of its buildings. The dog settles in immediately. The boy takes a little longer.
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Trailer — In festival circulation — full release not yet online.
Directed by Adrian Howell
Original score by Lorenz Weber
Recent work.
Documentary.
Possibility: From Philosophy to Farming in the Mountains of Portugal
A life shaped by Apartheid, stretched across deserts and lecture halls, finds its way back to wilderness. Possibility follows Deborah Osberg into the mountains of Serra da Estrela — where a new creative practice holds together both beginnings and endings.
Directed & Produced by Adrian Howell
Featuring Deborah Osberg
Produced as part of Serra by Otherlands
Recent work.
Documentary.
Process: The Alchemy of Wood, Fire and Wildness
From London to the granite peaks of the Serra da Estrela — and through fire. Proceess follows Luca D'Ortenzi as he transforms the aftermath of devastating wildfires into turned wooden objects, and traces what rural solitude reveals about the self.
Directed by Adrian Howell
Featuring Luca D’Ortenzi
Produced as part of Serra by Otherlands
Recent work.
Documentary.
Wild: Transforming Landscapes through Syntropic Farming
A former Berlin theatre actor walks away from civilisation — and into the land. Wild follows Lars Wild to the remote coast of southwest Portugal, where he is transforming an abandoned quinta on the Rio Mira into a thriving food forest through the principles of Syntropic agriculture. A portrait of one man's search for a different way of being in the world.
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Directed by Adrian Howell
Featuring Lars Wild
Produced as part of Serra by Otherlands
Recent work.
Documentary.
Bridging the Divide
The frontier days of Western Colorado are over, but a new form of expansion threatens what remains of the American wilderness: the insatiable industry of oil and gas development.
Bridging the Divide explores this conflict through the lens of culture, society and history, retracing the story of this land back to indigenous times, exploring the anthropocentric philosophy that dominates western culture. It asks the question: how can we continue to seek infinite growth on a finite planet? And how can we reconcile our love of the land with the needs we take from it?
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Directed by Adrian Howell
Produced by Tucker Farris
Co-written by Tucker Farris & Adrian Howell