Maurizius Staerkle Drux studied film directing with a focus on sound at ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts) and HSLU (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts). He is co-founder of the production company Ensemble Film GmbH and has been a professor of documentary film at ZHdK since 2025.His award-winning films CONCRETE LOVE (2014) and THE ART OF SILENCE (2022) have been screened worldwide. In THOSE WHO HEAR THE SUN he connects his artistic work with the sensory world of his deaf community.