Screen and stage,
a shared space for play.

Born in Poland and based in Geneva, Bartek Sozanski is an actor, theatre director, filmmaker and acting teacher. He trained at the National Academy of Theatre Arts in Wrocław, the École nationale supérieure des arts de la marionnette in Charleville-Mézières and the Sorbonne Nouvelle, before settling in Switzerland in the late 1990s. As an actor, he has performed in around thirty stage productions in Switzerland, France, Japan, Ukraine and Canada.

From 2003 to 2016, he co-led the company Korpüs Animüs and co-directed eight productions with Yann Joly, including Hamlet.Babylone, created in Kyiv with Ukrainian artists and subsequently performed in Geneva, Neuchâtel and Vienna. His stage work also includes Une femme seule, with Latifa Djerbi, and Fabula Rasa.

Since 2013, he has written and directed short films selected for international festivals. Live to Remain received the Audience Award at the Shnit Worldwide Film Festival in Bern. Forget Me Not, starring Marthe Keller, was included in the Swiss Films 2018 selection. My Own Private Apocalypse was presented in the DIG section of the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival. In 2019, he also won the Kodak Student Commercial Award in London for Real Snacks for Real People.

He holds a master’s degree in directing from Arts University Bournemouth and has taught screen acting and video techniques for the stage at La Manufacture since 2022. He contributes to several research projects there and leads, with József Trefeli, the research project Filming choreographic movement ↗, which explores the role of the camera in the creation of movement. He works in French, Polish, Ukrainian and English. He founded Hors-champ in 2026; Sept is its first production.

Member of Directors UK, the Royal Television Society and the Société Suisse des Auteurs.