Petra Volpe

Screenwriter and director Petra Volpe’s latest feature, the acclaimed medical drama Late Shift, is in theaters from Music Box Pictures from March 20. Her feature film debut, Dreamland (2014), was nominated for four Swiss Film Awards. In 2017, Volpe gained worldwide attention with her film The Divine Order (Die göttliche Ordnung), which became a major box-office success in Switzerland. It was sold to over 30 countries and represented Switzerland in the Oscar race. Volpe also wrote the screenplay for the film Heidi, the successful SRF series Labyrinth of Peace and Golden Years (Die goldenen Jahre), which became the most successful Swiss feature film of 2022 in German-speaking Switzerland and was sold internationally, including in the USA. In addition to her Swiss projects, Volpe works as a screenwriter and director in the United States. Her fourth feature film, Frank & Louis, her English-language debut which stars Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan, premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Petra Volpe lives and works in Berlin and New York. (Photo by Salvatore Vinci.)