| Yves Yersin | |
| Birth Date: | 4 October 1942 |
| Birth Place: | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Death Place: | Baulmes, Switzerland |
| Nationality: | Swiss |
| Occupation: | Film director |
| Yearsactive: | 1968-1979 |
Yves Yersin (4 October 1942 - 15 November 2018) was a Swiss film director.[1] His film Les petites fugues competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
Yersin studied photography at the Center Vocational de Vevey from 1959 to 1961, and received a Federal Certificate of Capacity. He began advertising photography in 1962 and trained as a cameraman from 1963 to 1964.
While at the Expo 64, Yersin assisted René Crux during the Polyvision slideshow.
Yersin joined the Fondation du Groupe 5 with Alain Tanner, Jean-Louis Roy, Michel Soutter, and Jean-Jacques Lagrange in 1971.