Bettina Oberli was born in 1972 in Interlaken, Switzerland. From 1995 to 2000 she studied cinema at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zurich (HGKZ). After her first prize-win- ning film “ Im Nordwind ” (2004), her second film, “ Die Herbstzeitlosen ” (2006) was distributed in Swiss cinemas for a year and seen by over 600,000 spectators, as well as being sold throughout the world. In 2008/2009, Bettina Oberli directed the German language film “ Tannöd ”, an adaption of Andrea Maria Schenkel’s crime drama. She directed “ Anna Karenina ” at the Basel Theater before directing the feature-length film “ Lovely Louise ” (2013) and the SRF/ARTE two-part series, “Private Banking” (2017). She is currently working on a new feature film and two television series.