The director of WHERE WE BELONG. Jacqueline Zünd was born in Zurich, Switzerland where she studied journalism at the Ringier School of Journalism. She then moved to London to study film at the London Filmschool. After her studies she worked two years for ZEBRA, a pop culture program for Swiss National Television before moving to Rome where she lived and worked in the Swiss Institute for two years. Back in Switzerland she started to work on her first feature length documentary. GOODNIGHT NOBODY (2010) has been shown at many film festivals worldwide and won numerous awards such as Best Newcomer at Visions du Réel and a special mention at DOK Leipzig. Since 2012 Jacqueline Zünd works as a lecturer at Zurich University of the Arts. Her second feature ALMOST THERE (2016) premiered at IDFA and was nominated and awarded for the Swiss Film Award. WHERE WE BELONG her third film had its world premier at Berlinale 2019.
