Les Films du Lotus is a Swiss based production company that is currently working with European partners to develop English language feature films with Indian content. Kamal Musale founded Les Films du Lotus in 1992 in order to finance the development of his screenplays. The company was soon to produce his documentaries and art films, together with European broadcasters, for the last two decades. Les Films du Lotus is also co-producing The Swiss Indian Film Bridge, a network platform between Switzerland and India.

The Swiss-Indian filmmaker Kamal Musalewas born and raised in Switzerland but is quite at home with the growing international aspect of cinema today, having earned a degree in film direction and scriptwriting from the prestigious National Film and Television School in England.

Selected at Cannes in 1989, The Three Soldiers, a short film, was to become a classic and already points towards the daring and sensual world the filmmaker has gone on to explore in over 30 films to date. Short and feature-length films, fiction and documentary, commercials and music videos, Kamal’s work runs the gamut and has enabled him to acquire a deep understanding of and real expertise in handling a camera, editing film, and designing sound. Thanks to his thorough mastery of the film craft, he has delved into the creative process that is at work in dance, music, mime, sculpture and painting, to drawn a form of narrative with humor and poetry. From Brazil’s traditional healers—and the wounded body—in Healers of the Unvisible Worlds (2001) to Japan’s Butoh dancers—and the liberated body—in Ai-Amour (Silver FIPA, 1995), Kamal has also brought out the mysterious or hidden sides of human beings while garnering broad enthusiasm and appreciation for his work. And when chosen in a national competition to offer his take on Swiss identity, the filmmaker came up with Raclette Curry (1999), whose title alone sums up both his predilection for mixing genres and his acute sense of comedy. In his latest feature, Aline (Fest. Intern. Locarno 2003), he adopts an experimental form of minimalist opera to tell the story of an amorous and cannibalistic passion. His films are featured in international festivals, have won numerous awards, and are distributed by the main European channels.

On the side of his fiction and documentary work, Kamal has written concepts and directed many corporate / commercial works for major clients, notably FIFA-UEFA (World Football association), Nestlé (Food Branch) and Nespresso, Swiss Federal Affair Office, Swiss bank BCV, Henniez water, etc.

Humanitarian concerns are also high on his list of priorities, to which he answers with a regular production of short films on different topic, for Amnesty International, Red Cross, Barefoot Acupuncturists and Win India to name but a few.

Kamal is now shooting Mumbai Bird, an Hindi feature film coproduced between India and Switzerland, and preparing The Hermit, is next feature, an english coproduction between Canada, Switzerland and India. Women India, a collage of women portraits in contemorary India is also under work.

Kamal founded with Beatrice Dolder in 2010 the Swiss Indian Film Bridge (sifb.org), a network platform for cultural exchanges between Switzerland and India, which is officially representing Swiss Film Commission, and he’s establishing this year with Juliane Schulze an Euro India Film Bridge (eurindiafilmbridge), a representative of EuFCN, European Film Commission Network, for coproductions between India and Europe.