Ivan Madeo is founder and managing director of the two Swiss production companies Contrast Film Bern and Contrast Film Zurich, which he runs with his partners Stefan Eichenberger and Urs Frey. After majoring in film journalism and clinical psychology, he had previously worked for leading advertising agencies in Switzerland and Italy. With Contrast Film he's been developing and producing socially and politically engaged films that were selected at Berlinale, Locarno, San Sebastian, qualified to run for Oscars and Golden Globes and won many awards e.g. Panorama Audience Award and Teddy Award at Berlinale, Max Ophüls Award at Saarbrücken, Swiss Film Awards, two Student Oscars and one Oscar nomination. Ivan Madeo was Switzerland's "Producer on the Move" in Cannes in 2017, he is an EAVE alumnus and worked as a jury member at several film festivals such as Venice Film Festival, Molodist Kyiv, FICG Guadalajara in Mexico. He's a member of the European Film Academy, Swiss Film Academy, Swiss Film Commission for Documentaries at the Federal Office of Culture and board member of the Swiss Film Producers' Association SFP.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Producer and writer
- 5 on MovieCove · 12 credits in all
What are Ivan Madeo's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Power and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 0 · Serious 0 · Dark 4
Grounded 4 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 3 · Intense 1
Steady 3 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 4
A split, not a type: Resolved 2 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet1
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Ivan Madeo's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 4 of their 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Ivan Madeo's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
12 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page.
Game Over - The Fall of Credit Suisse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
In the Shadows of Dreams (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Stray Bodies(2024)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Stella: A Life(2023)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Davos 1917(2023)
Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all shows
Of Living Without Illusion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Caged Birds(2020)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
Caveman: The Hidden Giant (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Doomsday(2015)
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films
The Circle (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Child's Dream - Zwei Banker Auf Sinnsuche (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
A World for Raúl (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Career shape
A full career of 11 titles from 2012 to 2025.
Biggest box office
Stella: A Life (2023)
Highest rated
Stella: A Life (2023)
Most popular right now
Davos 1917 (2023)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.
Awards
Won a Berlinale award in 2014, Best Documentary Film.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Ivan Madeo's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 48th percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 46th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th2
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 5 titles are Broadly Agreed.
- Loved with Detractors1
- Broadly Agreed2
- Mixed2
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Ivan Madeo work with?
People who share at least 2 of Ivan Madeo's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Stefan Eichenberger shares the most, 4.
Actors
- Joel BasmanShared titles: Stella: A Life (2023), Caged Birds (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Joel Basman
Producers
- Stefan EichenbergerShared titles: Davos 1917 (2023), Stella: A Life (2023), Caged Birds (2020), Doomsday (2015)See all 4 shared titles with Stefan Eichenberger
- Marco MehlitzShared titles: Davos 1917 (2023), Stella: A Life (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Marco Mehlitz
- Michael LehmannShared titles: Davos 1917 (2023), Stella: A Life (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Michael Lehmann