Irene Z'graggen, born on 17 May 2001 in Locarno (Switzerland), is a young director with a passion for cinema of reality and documentaries. After graduating from high school, Irene decided to leave for Milan to enrol in the Cinema and Animation course at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti. Her first documentary as a director was El cabrer, with which she won first prize in the Best Short Documentary category at the Milan Short Film Festival in 2023 and the Jury Special Mention at the NABA Cinema Awards 2024. In 2024, she made Kaliz, which had its first screening at Alice nella Città 2024 and was selected for the Clermont-Ferrand 2025 Short Film Market.