• Sep 12, 2025
  • 64 min
  • Full-HD

Lost Cells (2025)

“A gift so precious, you can only offer it once” was the promise Cryosave, a Swiss multinational and global leader in stem cell banking, made to hundreds of thousands of new parents. For a few thousand francs, the company offered to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood, an insurance policy against more than 80 illnesses, a safeguard for the future. But behind the brochures lay marketing schemes, hidden commissions, and a lack of oversight. In 2019, Cryosave abruptly went bankrupt. Without notifying its clients, the company quietly transferred over 300,000 stem cell samples to a lab in Poland. Since then, many parents have been fighting to recover what they believed was safely stored.

Country
Switzerland
Companies
Point Prod RTS ARTE GEIE Arte GEIE - Strasbourg ARTE GEIE (FR)

Tatjana Petakovic

Self - client

Luis Daniel

Self - client of Cryo-Save

Frédéric Amar

Self - Cryo-Save C.E.O.

Jean Jacques Carrier

Self - intendant for Frédéric Amar

Massimiliano Seregni

Self - lawyer

Jakub Baran

Self - FamiCord C.E.O. (PBKM)

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