Portraits of the people and places shaping contemporary culture through ideas, craft and conviction

independent film production

portraits,
not profiles.

Pocket Stories is an independent film production company making short documentary portraits of the people behind contemporary culture: chefs and restaurateurs, artists and musicians, founders and makers.

Taste runs through all of it — on the plate, and in the broader sense of what a place comes to value. The people who influence one tend to influence the other.

Ideas, craft and conviction: what someone is trying to say, how well they do it, and why they keep going when it would be easier to stop.

We're based in Zürich and film in and around the city. It's the setting, not the subject.

Every film is published on our YouTube channel.