About us

Otherlands is a non-profit creative studio making documentary films about people, places, and the way life is lived in particular landscapes.

Rather than one ongoing project, we works through place-specific bodies of work — each named for where they're rooted.

Serra came first, following people living remotely in the mountains of Portugal.

Grischun is the current work, based in the Swiss canton of the same name.

Each project moves at its own pace and has its own character, but they share the same underlying curiosity: what does it mean to live closely with a particular place, and what can film do to hold that honestly.

Otherlands is the thread that connects them.

Our purpose

Otherlands is a non-profit cultural association (Verein) based in Graubünden/Grischun, Switzerland — established to support independent artistic and documentary projects connected to landscape, culture, and language.

The association provides a structure for:

  • cultural production

  • artistic collaboration

  • long-term documentary work

  • educational and cultural initiatives

Donations made through the Verein go directly toward supporting these activities.