 She has directed several feature films, including "Anne Trister" (1986) and "Set Me Free (Emporte-moi)" (1999), both of which screened at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival, where the latter won the Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.Pool was born in Soglio, Switzerland in 1950, and raised in Lausanne.Her father was Jewish, and a Holocaust survivor from Poland; her mother's family was Christian of Swiss descent.