Manuel Flurin Hendry is an award-winning film director, screenwriter and artistic researcher born and based in Zurich, Switzerland. A graduate of the German Film and TV Academy Berlin (dffb), his work cuts across genres and formats, from political drama to family entertainment. As a researcher, he investigates the impact of digital systems on self-perception, visual education and artistic practice. He teaches film direction and screen acting at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and serves as the principal investigator of the «cineMINDS» project.