Recent work.

Fexer

In the remote Val Fex, a blacksmith forges knives shaped by the mountains that have shaped his family for generations as the valley around him is gradually transformed.

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In production.

Directed by Adrian Howell
Featuring Roger Rominger
Original Score by Lorenz Weber
Produced by Otherlands

Traunter Ovas

In deep winter, a young farmer in Sils Maria takes over his family’s land. As the seasons turn, he discovers what it costs to keep it.

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In development.

Directed by Adrian Howell
Original score by Lorenz Weber
Featuring Adriano Coretti
Produced by Otherlands

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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Directed by Adrian Howell
Original score by Lorenz Weber

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

Process: The Alchemy of Wood, Fire and Wildness

From London to the granite peaks of the Serra da Estrela, and through fire. Process 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

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