Franziska Sonder attended the German-French Masterclass Ludwigsburg-Paris at the Ludwigsburg Film Academy and la fémis in Paris in 2016, she participated in the Ex Oriente development programme (focussing on Eastern European co-productions) in the same year, she was among the participants in Eurodoc 2018 and the Rotterdam Lab in 2019. Franziska Sonder funded the production company Ensemble Film and works as a producer in Zurich. The full-length documentaries LOVING HIGHSMITH by Eva Vitija, DIDA by Corina Schwingruber Ilić and Nikola Ilić and LOVE WILL COME LATER by Julia Furer will be released in 2021.