Founded in Lugano in 2014 by Nicola Bernasconi, with the aim to develop and produce fiction films and documentaries mainly by local authors - with an eye open on European cinema and international coproductions - ROUGH CAT has to its credit, among others, the documentary Stella Ciao by Vito Robbiani (2015), presented at 50. Solothurn Film Festival’s Prix du public; the international coproduction Gold Is All There Is by Andrea Caccia (2019), selected at important international film festivals such as Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary and Turin, and the fiction feature Learning the ropes (I segreti del mestiere) by Andreas Maciocci (2019), presented in competition at the 32nd Castellinaria - Festival del cinema giovane, and at the 55.Solothurn Film Festival.
