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Stories shaped by landscape.

Engiadina

The first series of the Grischun project.

Roger Rominger forges knives in Val Fex, a valley the world comes to see and where his family has farmed for generations. Adriano Coretti logs timber above St. Moritz in summer and tends his horses in Sils Maria in winter, preparing to inherit a farm worked by three generations before him.

Grischun: Engiadina is a series of documentary films, photographs, music and writing made in the Engadin valleys of Graubünden — following people whose lives are bound to this landscape and to a Romansh-speaking culture that is both ancient and present.

Each film is accompanied by photography, recorded conversations, and a print journal. The work is made from within the valley, in close collaboration with its communities.

Across the series, questions of inheritance emerge in different forms: who remains, who leaves, what is carried forward, and what is transformed.

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Fexer

The first film of the Grischun series.

In the remote Val Fex, a blacksmith shapes knives from the same mountains that shaped his family over generations — as the valley around him is gradually transformed.

A film by Adrian Howell. Original score by Lorenz Weber. A portrait of Roger Rominger.

Fexer is developed & produced with support from: Lia Rumantscha, Gemeinde Sils/Segl, Pro Fex, GKB, Forum Engadin, Kulturstiftung St. Moritz, Repower & Biblioteca Engiadinaisa.

Traunter Ovas

The second film of the Grischun series.

In deep winter, a young farmer in Sils Maria takes over his family's land. From frozen silence to high summer, his first season reveals the weight of inheritance through work, risk, and the landscape that sustains him.

A film by Adrian Howell. Original score by Lorenz Weber. A portrait of Adriano Coretti.

Traunter Ovas is developed with support from: GKB, Forum Engadin.

Support

Otherlands is a registered non-profit association based in Graubünden. The Grischun series is made without commercial backing — funded through foundations, regional institutions, and individuals who want to see this work exist.

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