Barbara Miller

Barbara Miller is an independent Swiss documentary director. She has a background as a lawyer and started in the film industry by working on the Oscar-nominated documentary War Photographer by Christian Frei. Since 2001, she directed over twenty acclaimed documentaries for Swiss National Television and the big screen, ranging from the anti-globalization movement, the Summit Stormers (2022) to Domestic Violence (2005), Sex in the Internet (2008) and Clitoris (2005). Barbara Miller also directed a variety of human-rights documentaries, helping to raise the voices of the poorest in Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Kosovo, Lebanon and India. Her award-winning feature-length documentary Forbidden Voices (2012) was shown at more than 70 festivals worldwide. Her latest prizewinning documentary #Female Pleasure (2018) was the most successful Swiss documentary worldwide.

Barbara Miller is a member of the Swiss Film Academy, the European Film Academy and the President of the Swiss Association of Screenwriters and Directors since 2017.