Klaudia Reynicke

Reynicke was born in Lima, where she lived until age ten.^[2] She spent much of her early life in Switzerland and Florida.^[3][4] She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida, where she studied visual arts and anthropology, and a master's degree in sociology from the University of Lausanne.^[5]

In 2005, Reynicke studied film at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She later completed a master's degree in film studies through a joint program from École cantonale d'art de Lausanne and Geneva University of Art and Design.^[1]

Reynicke directed her first short film, Great Expectations: NY, in 2005 while at New York University. After graduating from the ECAL-HEAD joint program in 2010, she participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus program.^[5] She then directed a series of documentary features and shorts including the autobiographical ¿Asi son los hombres?, Mermaids, about performers at Weeki Wachee Springs, and Il Matrimonio, about an elderly couple getting married.^[6][7][8]

In 2016, Reynicke's debut feature film Il nido debuted at that year's edition of the Locarno Film Festival. Her 2019 film Love Me Tender premiered at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival and later screened in the Discovery section at the Toronto International Film Festival.^[4]

Reinas, Reynicke's film about a mother and her daughters trying to escape the instability of 1990s Peru, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and was later awarded the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for the Best Film at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, Prix du Public UBS at the 77th Locarno Film Festival and Best Screenplay prize at the 28th Lima Film Festival.^[9][10]