aline bonvin film & video

aline bonvin - editor & filmmaker

Aline Bonvin is a film editor and filmmaker working across documentary, essayistic and hybrid forms. She is based in Switzerland and works in Berlin and Benin too.
Her practice is rooted in collaboration and care, with a focus on memory, archives, and queer-feminist perspectives. She is drawn to cinema of emotional depth and political resonance—
stories that open spaces for transformation.

MY FATHER'S KORA

Direction: Ayéman Aymar Esse
Editing: Aline Bonvin
2026 | 88' | SunRise Films | SEERA Films | seeking world premiere - sales and distribution

Queer afropean trajectory from an African perspective

Souleymane, a young Afro-German trans man, travels from Berlin to Dakar to
repair the kora his father gave him - and in doing so to mend himself.
A fragile search for belonging through body, ballroom, sewing, family, faith, heritage, and ocean.