Locarno 2016 by SWISS FILMS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS SWISS FILMS Desk at Piazza Grande Lounge Friday – Monday, August 5 – 8, Fri 12:00 – 16:00, Sat-Mon 10:00 – 16:00 info@swissfilms.ch

Catherine Ann Berger Managing Director caberger@swissfilms.ch T +41 76 368 02 65

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Aida Suljicic Programme curator asuljicic@swissfilms.ch T +41 77 431 87 79

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Sylvain Vaucher Short Films svaucher@swissfilms.ch T +41 79 542 83 80

TABLE OF CONTENTS Swiss films screened in Locarno 2016 Concorso internazionale

Concorso cineasti del presente

Piazza Grande Piazza Grande: Prefestival

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Fuori concorso

Semaine de la critique

Pardi di domani: Concorso nazionale

Panorama Suisse

Histoire(s) du cinéma

Coming Soon

Cover: LA IDEA DE UN LAGO by Milagros Mumenthaler Back Cover: MARIJA by Michael Koch

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Piazza Grande Teatro Kursaal Cinema Ex*Rex FEVI Teatro Kursaal Teatro Kursaal FEVI Teatro Kursaal Piazza Grande FEVI FEVI La Sala La Sala Ex*Rex La Sala Palavideo L'altra Sala FEVI Teatro Kursaal FEVI La Sala L'altra Sala Cinema Rialto 2 Teatro Kursaal FEVI La Sala

Swiss Films screened in locarno 2016

Gotthard WhoAfraidWolf Un Juif pour l'exemple Un Juif pour l'exemple Moka The Story Of Night A Decent Man Fishing Bodies Moka Whatever The Weather My Life As A Film - How My Father Tried To Capture Happiness Pardi di domani "Program 1" Fishing Bodies The Story Of Night Fishing Bodies Un Juif pour l'exemple Pardi di domani "Program 1" Aloys Cahier africain Raving Iran Jean Ziegler - The Optimism Of Willpower Pardi di domani "Program 1" Fishing Bodies Marija The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg Pardi di domani "Program 2"

Urs Egger Clemens Klopfenstein Jacob Berger Jacob Berger Frédéric Mermoud Clemens Klopfenstein Micha Lewinsky Michele Pennetta Frédéric Mermoud Remo Scherrer Eva Vitija several Michele Pennetta Clemens Klopfenstein Michele Pennetta Jacob Berger several Tobias Nölle Heidi Specogna Susanne Regina Meures Nicolas Wadimoff several Michele Pennetta Michael Koch Michael Schindhelm several

Press Screenings also for Industry- and Professional Accreditations Industry screening schedule available online at www.pardo.ch/industry for Industry Accreditations only 3

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Swiss Fil ms screened in locarno 2016 Monday

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Teatro Kursaal FEVI L'altra Sala FEVI L'altra Sala FEVI Palavideo FEVI FEVI Teatro Kursaal Palavideo L'altra Sala La sala FEVI Palavideo La Sala FEVI La Sala Teatro Kursaal L'altra Sala FEVI Palavideo L'altra Sala FEVI Cinema Rialto 2

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The Idea Of A Lake Marija Cahier africain Marija Pardi di domani "Program 2" Late Shift - Your Decisions Are You Jean Ziegler – The Optimism Of Willpower The Idea Of A Lake Rio Corgo The Nest Marija Pardi di domani "Program 2" The Idea Of A Lake Köpek The Idea Of A Lake The Nest Amateur Teens Pardi di domani “Program 3” Journey of Hope The Nest The Unknown Man Of Shandigor Jean Ziegler – The Optimism Of Willpower Pardi di domani "Program 3" Calabria The Nest

Milagros Mumenthaler Michael Koch Heidi Specogna Michael Koch several Tobias Weber Nicolas Wadimoff Milagros Mumenthaler Maya Kosa, Sergio Da Costa Klaudia Reynicke Michael Koch several Milagros Mumenthaler Esen Isik Milagros Mumenthaler Klaudia Reynicke Niklaus Hilber several Xavier Koller Klaudia Reynicke Jean-Louis Roy Nicolas Wadimoff several Pierre-François Sauter Klaudia Reynicke

Press Screenings also for Industry- and Professional Accreditations Industry screening schedule available online at www.pardo.ch/industry for Industry Accreditations only

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I nterna z ionale

Marija Michael Koch

Germany / Switzerland Fiction, 2016, 100 min. Original languages: German / Russian World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Margarita Breitkreiz / Georg Friedrich / Sahin Eryilmaz / Olga Dinnikova Production: Pandora Film Produktion, Cologne Hugofilm Productions GmbH, Zurich Little Shark Entertainment, Cologne in coproduction with: WDR ARTE SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRG SSR World Sales: Luxbox, Paris www.luxboxfilms.com

Marija, a young Ukrainian woman, earns her living as a hotel maid in Dortmund (Germany), but dreams of owning her own hair salon. She puts money aside each month but when she is fired without notice, her dream seems out of reach. Without work and under financial pressure, she finds herself forced to look for other opportunities. Her body, her social relationships and her own feelings take a secondary importance to her goal.

* 1982 in Lucerne. Michael Koch worked as an actor from 1999-2006. In 2008 he graduated from the KHM (Kunsthochschule fĂźr Medien) Film and Television department in Cologne. His short films were shown and awarded at various film festivals. His graduation film POLAR (2008) received a special mention from the jury at the Berlinale in 2009 and won the German Short film Award. MARIJA is Kochâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first feature film.

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I nterna z ionale

The Idea Of A Lake La idea de un lago

Milagros Mumenthaler

* 1977 in Argentina. Joint Swiss and Argentinian citizenship. Milagros Mumenthaler received her degree in film directing from the Universidad del Cine Buenos Aires in 2005. She has directed four short films, selected and awarded at many festivals. Her first feature ABRIR PUERTAS Y VENTANAS (2011), developed at the Cannes residence Cinéfondation, won the Pardo d’oro at the Festival del film Locarno and was screened at numerous international festivals.

Inès, 35 years old, is a photographer. She is in an emotionally fragile phase and begins putting together a book of personal poems and photographs. Gradually, the process of bringing a book to fruition becomes a very personal and unfettered exploration of her past: of her relationship with her mother; the role of the family home in the south, which seems to have been frozen in time; and how the absence of her father – who disappeared in 1977 during the dictatorship – influenced all of those years.

Switzerland / Argentina Fiction, 2016, 82 min. Original language: Spanish World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Carla Crespo / Rosario Bléfari Production: Alina film Sarl, Geneva RTS Radio Télévision Suisse Ruda cine, Buenos Aires World Rights: Alina film Sarl, Geneva T +41 76 372 21 96 info@alinafilm.com and Ruda cine, Buenos Aires www.rudacine.com.ar

Concorso C ineasti

del presente

Fishing Bodies

Pescatori di corpi Michele Pennetta

Switzerland Documentary, 2016, 65 min. Original languages: Italian / Arabic World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Production: Close Up Films, Geneva RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera World Rights: Close Up Films, Geneva T +41 22 808 08 46 joelle@closeupfilms.ch www.closeupfilms.ch

The film follows the crew of the Alba Angela, a clandestine fishing boat, as their destinies cross path with Ahmed, a refugee who now lives illegally on the boat that, before becoming his home and prison, brought others like him to Sicily. An intimate portrait of indifference in the face of immigration. * 1984 in Italy. Italian citizenship. Michele Pennetta received his BA in Visual Communication from SUPSI in Lugano in 2008 and his MA in cinema from ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne) in 2010. His short documentaries THE BET (2013) and THE DOGS BARK (2010) were selected for numerous international festivals. FISHING BODIES is his first feature film.

Concorso Cineasti

del presente

The Nest Il nido

Klaudia Reynicke

* 1976 in Peru. Joint Swiss and Peruvian citizenship. In 2010 Klaudia Reynicke graduated with a Master’s degree in Filmmaking from the Ecole Cantonal d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) where she made equally fiction and documentary shorts. In 2012 she shot her first long documentary produced by Amka Films ¿ASI SON LOS HOMBRES? which premiered at the Visions du Réel Nyon in 2013 and won the Audience Award of the Festival Filmar en America Latina. IL NIDO is her first feature-length fiction film.

Dani Levy

Cora, a 19-year-old woman, works for her family in Bucco, a village whose livelihood depends on the tourism of Christians who believe in the apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Michele, Cora’s father, organises the important celebration of the Virgin of Bucco, an annual event that attracts numerous pilgrims. But the arrival of a mysterious man, Saverio, will gradually undermine the harmony in the “holy” village, with the revelation of a crime committed by the villagers 40 years earlier, whose principal instigator was Cora’s father.

Switzerland / Italy Fiction, 2016, 78 min. Original language: Italian World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Ondina Quadri / Fabrizio Rongione / Diego Ribon / Sonia Gessner / Giovanni Franzoni / Luigi Diberti / Giosia Gilardi Production: Amka Films Productions SA, Savosa RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera Tempesta srl, Bologna RAI Cinema World Rights: Amka Films Productions SA, Savosa T +41 91 967 40 76 www.amka.ch

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Moka Frédéric Mermoud

Switzerland / France Fiction, 2016, 90 min. Original language: French World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Emmanuelle Devos / Nathalie Baye Production: Diligence Films, Paris Bande à part Films, Lausanne Tabo Tabo Films, Paris Sampek Productions, Paris RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Sales: Pyramide International, Paris T +33 1 42 96 02 20 www.pyramidefilms.com

Escaping from the clinic above Lausanne where she has been confined, Diane Kramer is driven by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha-coloured car who turned her life upsidedown. Taking with her a few possessions, a bit of money and a weapon, she heads for Evian. But sometimes, the path of vengeance is more tortuous than it appears: Diane will have to confront another woman, as provincial as she is peculiar.

* 1969 in Switzerland. Frédéric Mermoud's short film THE STAIRCASE (2003) won Best Short Film at the Swiss Film Awards in 2004. In 2010 he won the Swiss Film Award in the category Best Screenplay for COMPLICES (2009), a French-Swiss coproduction which premiered in Locarno. His latest short film REWIND (2015) premiered in Cannes in the Programme Talents Adami in 2015 and was also presented in Clermont-Ferrand in 2016. Together with Ursula Meier, Lionel Baier and Jean-Stéphane Bron he cofounded Bande à part Films, Lausanne.

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Gotthard Urs Egger

* 1953 in Bern. Urs Egger has assisted directors such as John Frankenheimer, Denis Lewiston, John Glen, Nicolas Gessner and Yves Boisset, among others. Director Fellow at AFI Center for Advanced Film Studies in Los Angeles. His films have won numerous awards, e.g. from the New York TV Festival, Monte-Carlo TV festival and in 2015 the Grimme Award for DER FALL BRUCKNER (2014).

In 1873, people from all over the world come to the tiny village of Gรถschenen in Switzerland, to work on the biggest construction site of modern times: the tunnel through the Gotthard. Following the lives of three young people in the years of rapid industrial expansion, this two-part TV movie tells the story of this gigantic construction project, which allowed the European national states to move closer together.

Switzerland / Germany / Czech Republic Fiction, 2016, 180 min. Original languages: Swiss-German / German / Italian / French World premiere: Locarno 2016 Cast: Maxim Mehmet / Pasquale Aleardi / Miriam Stein Production: Zodiac Pictures Ltd, Zurich MMC Zodiac GmbH, Cologne Wilma Film s.r.o, Prague SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen ZDF ORF World Sales: Beta Film GmbH, Oberhaching T +49 89 67 34 69 80 www.betafilm.com

F uori concorso

Jean Ziegler -

The Optimism Of Willpower

Jean Ziegler l'optimisme de la volonté Nicolas Wadimoff

Switzerland Documentary, 2016, 90 min. Original languages: French / German / Spanish / English World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Production: Dreampixies, Vevey RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Sales: Autlook Filmsales GmbH, Vienna T +43 720 34 69 34 www.autlookfilms.com

In 1964, Jean Ziegler was asked by Che Guevara to fight the “capitalist Monster”. Former collborator of Kofi Annan, professor and writer, Ziegler’s books still act as a manifesto to left-wing intelligentsia. At the UN Human Rights Council, he fights against “vulture funds”, a new avatar of the “Monster”. He goes back to Cuba, in his opinion the mother of all anticapitalist forces. The visit becomes a dialogue between reality and symbolism, confronting his thinking with today’s Cuban destiny. What is the future of anticapitalism? Is Ziegler amongst the winners or losers against the “Monster”?

* 1964 in Geneva. Nicolas Wadimoff has directed both fiction and documentary, among them the multi awarded CLANDESTINS (1997), which premiered in Locarno. His latest films SPARTIATES (2014), OPERATION LIBERTAD (2012) and AISHEEN (STILL ALIVE IN GAZA) (2010) have been shown at prestigious international film festivals such as Berlinale, Festival del film Locarno and at the Cannes Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.

F uori concorso

WINNER

Academy Award® 1991

Journey Of Hope Reise der Hoffnung

Xavier Koller

* 1944 in Schwyz. Academy Award winning director Xavier Koller lives and works in Los Angeles. He worked as an actor, before he started making films in 1969. Koller directed DAS GEFRORENE HERZ (1979), which became a Swiss film classic. In 1984 he founded the production company Catpics AG. For JOURNEY OF HOPE (1990) Koller received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 25 years ago, in 1991. He is also known for his films GRIPSHOLM (2000) and box-office success LITTLE MOUNTAIN BOY (2015).

The story of a Turkish couple, who start their “Journey of Hope” from a small village in SouthEast Turkey to Switzerland in order to escape poverty. They are taking their son, who is the brightest of their eight children. From Izmir they travel to Genoa with a freighter. In Italy they are taken by smugglers to the Alps and sent on towards Switzerland, despite the snow and the cold. Father and son are separated from Meryem. Will anyone reach the land of promise?

Switzerland / Italy / Germany Fiction, 1990, 105 min. Newly restored version Original languages: Swiss-German / Italian / Turkish Cast: Mathias Gnädinger / Necemettin Cobanoglu / Nur Sürer / Nemin Sivas et al. Production: Catpics AG, Adliswil Condor Films AG, Zurich Antea s.c.r.l., Rome Dewe Hellthaler International, Stuttgart World Rights: Catpics AG, Adliswil T +41 44 455 99 00 www.catpics.ch

F uori concorso

Un Juif pour l'exemple Jacob Berger

Switzerland Fiction, 2016, 73 min. Original language: French World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Bruno Ganz / André Wilms / Aurélien Patouillard / Paul Laurent / Baptiste Coustenoble / Steven Matthews / Elina Löwensohn Production: Vega Film AG - Ruth Waldburger, Zurich RTS Radio Télévision Suisse SRG SSR Teleclub AG World Rights: Vega Film AG, Zurich T +41 44 384 80 90 www.vegafilm.com

April 1942. The war seems far away in the small Swiss town of Payerne. Yet the local economy is weak, people are malcontent. The cafes are full of sinister characters. Garage owner Fernand Ischi and his men have sworn fealty to the Nazi Party. They dream of catching Adolf Hitler’s attention. On April 16, the next local cattle fair will take place and Arthur Bloch, a livestock dealer, will attend. That is the day a Jew will be killed as an example.

* 1963 in Great Britain. Joint Swiss and British citizenship. Jacob Berger attended the NYU Institute of Film & Television in New York during the 80s. He has since directed numerous documentaries and fiction films and is especially known for his films A LOVING FATHER (2002) starring Gérard and Guillaume Depardieu and THAT DAY (2007). Both films premiered at the Festival del film Locarno.

S e m aine de la criti q ue

Cahier africain Heidi Specogna

* 1959 in Switzerland. Heidi Specogna worked as a journalist before studying film at the DFFB Berlin from 1982–88 and founded her own production company Specogna Film in 1990. Specogna is known for her award-winning documentaries CARTE BLANCHE (2011), THE GOALGETTER’S SHIP (2010) and THE SHORT LIFE OF JOSÉ ANTONIO GUTIERREZ (2006). She works as a lecturer in documentary filmmaking at the Film Academy BadenWürttemberg in Ludwigsburg.

It all started with a school exercise book. Its pages were checkered with the testimonies of 300 Central African women, girls and men. They reveal what Congolese mercenaries did to them. On their own initiative they gathered together their testimonies to record the crimes committed against them. The film is a long-term observation that begins accompanying its protagonists in 2008. But while they try to master their difficult daily lives with confidence – and while, in The Hague, the legal prosecution of crimes committed during the last war is still in progress – the next war breaks out.

Switzerland / Germany Documentary, 2016, 119 min. Original languages: French / Arabic / Sango World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Production: PS Film GmbH, Zurich Filmpunkt GmbH, Cologne ZDF / 3sat World Sales: Rushlake Media GmbH, Cologne T +49 221 58 83 21 80 www.rushlake-media.com

P ardi di do m ani – C oncorso na z ionale

Digital Immigrants

Dormant

Genesis

Norbert Kottmann / Dennis Stauffer

Dormiente Tommaso Donati

Lucien Monot

Switzerland | Documentary | 2016 | 21 min. Original language: Swiss-German

Switzerland | Documentary | 2016 | 18 min. Without dialogue

Switzerland | Documentary | 2016 | 16 min. Original language: French

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Production: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: Norbert Kottmann / Dennis Stauffer T +41 79 884 52 12 info@zoomion.ch 1984 – The home computer arrived in our living rooms and overran a whole generation. Only those who master the new technologies have a future. The computer splits society into “Digital Natives” and “Digital Immigrants”. 2016 – A group of senior citizens is trying to adapt to the speed of computerization in order to find their place in the digital age. Their problem is ours: How long can we keep up with the rapid development? www.digital-immigrants.ch Watch online: SHORT FILM LIBRARY

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Production and World Rights: Tommaso Donati, Lugano T +41 78 639 50 14 tommaso.donati@hotmail.com A man and a woman living on the margins of society cross paths in urban and natural spaces, as they both search for a sense of forgotten freedom and their own awakening.

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Production and World Rights: Haute école d'art et de design – Geneva T +41 22 388 58 89 cinema.head@hesge.ch

To run away from a monotonous everyday life, 63-year-old Daniel found an activity which gives him a way to exist.

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P ardi di do m ani – C oncorso na z ionale

Iceberg

Les dauphines

Lost Exile

Mathieu Z'graggen

Juliette Klinke

Fisnik Maxhuni

France | Fiction | 2016 | 37 min. Original language: French

Belgium | Fiction | 2016 | 13 min. Original language: French

Switzerland | Fiction | 2016 | 29 min. Original languages: English/Albanian/Serbian

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Patrick D'Assumçao / Aurélia Poirier / Kevyn Diana / Philippe Koa / Lionel Ueberschlag / Fayssal Benbahmed Production: Alpaga films, Strasbourg Innervision, Strasbourg World Rights: Alpaga films, Strasbourg T +33 6 11 86 90 21 www.alpaga-films.fr

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Evelyne Demaude / Elisa Echevarria / Elise Havelange Production and World Rights: Médiadiffusion, Louvain-La-Neuve T +32 10 33 02 26 auspert@iad-arts.be

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Arben Bajraktaraj / May-Linda Kosumovic / Sunaj Raca / Fatmir Spahiu / Florist Bajgora / Rita Bardiqi Production: Alva Film, Geneva Master Cinema ECAL/HEAD RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Rights: Alva Film, Geneva T +41 22 321 70 38 www.alvafilm.ch

Mr Elys has been working for 20 years in an iceskating rink he has made his home. Although an ice-hockey fan, he has never dared put on ice-skates himself. He leads an aimless life until he meets Brie, a wild youngster, banned from the ice-skating trainings. He is willing to open the doors to the rink for her, unaware of the consequences.

Bea, jobless, sublets her flat to make ends meet. This weekend, she takes her daughters to a competition where the youngest one participates. Through this competition, Bea projects her own urge to succeed onto her daughter.

To escape from a lack of perspective in Kosovo, Hana meets Emir, a smuggler in Serbia who will drive her to Hungary. On the way, complications arise as Emir's unscrupulous associates try to take advantage of Hana's vulnerability. In the midst of the frozen winter, Hana's courage and determination and Emir's honour will be tested. Watch online: SHORT FILM LIBRARY

P ardi di do m ani – C oncorso na z ionale

Stage Left

The Lesson

The Bridge Over The River

Côté cour Lora Mure-Ravaud

Die Brücke über den Fluss Jadwiga Kowalska

Switzerland | Fiction | 2016 | 13 min. Original language: French

Switzerland | Animation | 2016 | 6 min. Paint on cells, Cutout animation, Mixed techniques, 2D Computer animation Without dialogue

Switzerland | Fiction | 2016 | 15 min. Original language: French

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Lola Giouse Production and World Rights: École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne jean_guillaume.sonnier@ecal.ch

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Production: Jadwiga Kowalska, Lucerne SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: Jadwiga Kowalska, Lucerne T +41 79 780 05 67 www.jadwiga.ch

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Clea Eden / Arnaud Huguenin / Bruno Joly Production: Terrain Vague, Lausanne World Sales: Salaud Morisset, Berlin T +49 152 25 19 23 36 www.salaudmorisset.com

A man on a bridge, separated from his love. Longing to be with her one last time, he decides to look for her on the other side.

Ludovic, a weekend biker, has planned out the afternoon in a wooden shed with Axelle.

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This evening, the drama school graduate students are performing their solos. Lola is there, somewhat reluctantly, as a friend has asked her to come. However, her friend doesn’t turn up. Lola is left sitting alone in the theatre, waiting. Then the lights go out.

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La leçon Tristan Aymon

P ardi di do m ani – C oncorso na z ionale

The Sap

The Tree House

The Railroad Lady

La sève Manon Goupil

Cabane Simon Guélat

La femme et le TGV Timo von Gunten

Switzerland | Fiction | 2016 | 13 min. Original language: French

France | Fiction | 2016 | 26 min. Original language: French

Switzerland | Fiction | 2016 | 30 min. Original language: French

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Maïa Catsaros / Antonin Schopfer / Sarah-Lise Salomon Maufroy / Laetitia de Fombelle Production and World Rights: Nouvelle Tribu, Geneva T +41 78 697 41 17 yasmine@nouvelletribu.ch and École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne jean_guillaume.sonnier@ecal.ch

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Simon Boutin / Devi Couzigou / Marie Millot / Miya Péchillon Production and World Rights: Les films du bélier, Paris T +33 1 44 90 99 83 contact@lesfilmsdubelier.fr

World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Jane Birkin / Gilles Tschudi / Lucien Guignard / Mathieu Bisson Production: arbel gmbh film und fernsehproduktion, Allschwil World Sales: Innovative EYE, Muttenz T +41 78 639 8408 info@innovative-eye.ch

12-year-old Lena lives alone with her mother in an old and isolated country house. When her sister, Marie, and future brother-in-law, Eloi, arrive for a family weekend, Lena develops a fascination for Eloi and tries to attract him into her tree.

During a whole summer, four teenagers gather illegally on a military zone to build themselves a hut. But school will soon begin again and the golden days of cabin building are coming to an end.

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Sometimes life seems to pass at 300 km/h: A touching story between a lonely woman and a TGV train driver. Inspired by true events and with actress Jane Birkin in the leading role. www.tgv-movie.com

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P anora m a S uisse

A Decent Man

Aloys

Nichts passiert Micha Lewinsky

Tobias Nölle

Switzerland | Fiction | 2015 | 92 min. Original language: German

Switzerland / France | Fiction | 2016 | 91 min. Original languages: German / Swiss-German

World premiere: Zurich Film Festival 2015 Cast: Devid Striesow / Annina Walt / Max Hubacher / Stéphane Maeder / Maren Eggert / Lotte Becker / Beat Marti / Therese Affolter Production: Plan B Film GmbH, Zurich | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | Teleclub AG | SRG SSR World Rights: Plan B Film GmbH, Zurich | T +41 44 271 65 55 | www.planbfilm.ch Thomas’ wife doesn’t have the time and his daughter cannot be bothered. Nevertheless, Thomas is bent on spending a relaxing skiing holiday with his family in the Swiss Alps. The fact that Sarah, the daughter of his boss, tags along this year only serves to complicate matters. The two teenagers get in trouble with the youth in the village. As a responsible adult, Thomas ought to intervene. Instead he turns a blind eye to the situation and thus becomes increasingly entangled in a web of lies and half-truths. www.nichtspassiert.ch

World premiere: Berlinale 2016 Cast: Georg Friedrich / Tilde von Overbeck Production: Hugofilm Productions GmbH, Zurich | Petit Film, Paris | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | SRG SSR | ARTE World Sales: New Europe Film Sales, Warsaw | T +48 600 173 205 | jan@neweuropefilmsales.com | www.neweuropefilmsales.com Aloys Adorn is a middle aged private detective who experiences life from a safe distance, through a video camera he keeps recording 24 hours a day. After a night of heavy drinking, Aloys wakes up on a public bus to find that his camera and observation tapes have been stolen. Soon after he is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as ‘telephone walking’. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation. www.facebook.com/aloysfilm 19

P anora m a S uisse

Amateur Teens

Calabria

Niklaus Hilber

Pierre-François Sauter

Switzerland | Fiction | 2015 | 92 min. Original language: Swiss-German

Switzerland | Documentary | 2016 | 117 min. Original languages: French / Serbian / Romani / Portuguese / Italian

World premiere: Zurich Film Festival 2015 Cast: Fabrizio Borsani / Annina Walt / Chiara Carla Bär / Luna Wedler / Benjamin Dangel / Jérôme Humm Production: A Film Company GmbH, Zurich World Sales: Film Republic, London | T +44 203 287 91 12 | filmrepublic.biz A group of ordinary 15-year-old teenagers at a secondary school in Zurich, hungry for life, insecure, full of longing and anxiety. But the power of social media, with its high-gloss selfies and perpetual pressure towards being cooler and sexier, increasingly forces the kids to deny their true feelings. A tragedy runs its course, one in which it is almost impossible to differentiate between perpetrator and victim, guilt and innocence. www.amateurteens-kinofilm.ch

World premiere: Visions du Réel Nyon 2016 Production: Mira Film GmbH, Zurich | Le Laboratoire Central, Lausanne | RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Rights: Le Laboratoire Central, Lausanne | T +41 78 605 69 81 | www.lelaboratoirecentral.com

A road movie in a hearse. After the death of a Calabrian immigrant who came to Switzerland to find work, two undertakers, Jovan and José, who are themselves emigrants, travel from northern to southern Italy to repatriate the dead body to his home village. Jovan, a gypsy who was a singer in Belgrad, believes in life after death. While José, a Portuguese who is passionate about culture, believes only what he sees. Together they face the contingencies and the surprises of the trip. Their journey is an opportunity to pay tribute to the dead person and to enjoy life.

P anora m a S uisse

Köpek

Late Shift – Your Decisions Are You

Esen Isik

Tobias Weber

Switzerland | Fiction | 2015 | 98 min. Original language: Turkish

Switzerland / United Kingdom | Fiction | 2016 70 – 90 min. | Original language: English

World premiere: Zurich Film Festival 2015 Cast: Oguzhan Sancar / Cagla Akalin / Beren Tuna / Baris Atay / Cemal Toktas / Hakan Karsak / Bekir Sevenkan / Salih Bademci Production and World Rights: maximage GmbH, Zurich T +41 44 274 88 66 | www.maximage.ch An ordinary day in the megacity of Istanbul: Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues in the streets, Hayat is controlled by her husband and transsexual Ebru sells her body. All three have a secret love and they do everything to satisfy their longing, if only for a moment. An authentic, delicate and unsettling story about love, death and the Turkish society at the beginning of the 21st century.

An interactive thriller of cinematic quality, based on one story, countless storylines and seven different endings defined by the audience’s choices. Matt, a student, has to prove his innocence after being forced into the robbery at a London auction house. How will the audience decide to act when everything is turning against him? They take decisions for the hero while the movie keeps on running seamlessly. www.lateshift-movie.com

P anora m a S uisse My Life As A Film - How My Father Tried To Capture Happiness Das Leben drehen – Wie mein Vater versuchte, das Glück festzuhalten

Raving Iran

Eva Vitija

Susanne Regina Meures

Switzerland | Documentary | 2015 | 77 min. Original languages: Swiss-German / German

Switzerland | Documentary | 2016 | 84 min. Original languages: Persian / English / Swiss-German

World premiere: DOK Leipzig 2015 Production: SwissDok GmbH, Basel | Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: SwissDok GmbH, Basel | T +41 76 328 35 34 | www.swissdok.ch

World premiere: Visions du Réel Nyon 2016 Production: Christian Frei Filmproduktion GmbH, Zurich | Zürcher Hochschule der Künste | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | 3sat Zurich World Sales: Rise And Shine World Sales UG, Berlin | T +49 30 47 37 29 80 | www.riseandshine-berlin.com

When Eva Vitija came of age, her father gave her a feature-lenghth film about her life. It infuriated her, because she had attempted to get away from his camera all her childhood. Her father, filmmaker Joschy Scheidegger, documented his family obsessively. It was only when he died that Eva was impelled to take over not only his extensive film archive, but also his camera. Through her film the daughter gives her past back that element of intimacy that her father's camera seems to have stolen from her. A surprising and philosophical family story about the attempt to capture life. www.daslebendrehen.ch 22

Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they organize one last manic techno rave under dangerous circumstances in the desert. Back in Tehran they try their luck selling their illegally printed music album without permission. When Anoosh is arrested, there seems to be no hope left. But then they receive a phone call from the biggest techno festival in the world. Once landed in Switzerland, the haze of the instant euphoria evaporates quickly when the seriousness of the situation starts to dawn on them. www.ravingiran.com

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Rio Corgo

The Chinese Lives Of Uli Sigg

Maya Kosa, Sergio Da Costa

Michael Schindhelm

Switzerland / Portugal | Documentary | 2015 | 95 min. Original language: Portuguese

Switzerland | Documentary | 2016 | 93 min. Original languages: Swiss-German / German / English / Chinese

World premiere: doclisboa 2015 Production: Close Up Films, Geneva | O Som e a Fúria, Lisbon World Rights: Close Up Films, Geneva | T +41 22 808 08 46 | flavia@closeupfilms.ch | www.closeupfilms.ch

Production: T&C Film AG, Zurich | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen RTS Radio Télévision Suisse | RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera World Sales: Autlook Filmsales GmbH, Vienna | T +43 720 34 69 34 www.autlookfilms.com

Silva, an old drifter, arrives at a small and isolated Portuguese village where he meets the young Ana. They develop a relation in between friendship and initiation. Fascinated by that wondrous man, Ana progressively falls into his universe. A life populated by supernatural figures including her long lost friend Carolina. But strange fits weaken Silva, bringing him to the hospital, where a dozen women start inhabiting him. Will they save him?

The Swiss Uli Sigg had an impact on China’s shifting economic policy after the Mao era. He has also established the world’s most significant collection of contemporary Chinese art. The majority of this collection will be transferred to Hong Kong’s M+ museum, due to open in 2019. A documentary about the entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector Uli Sigg in the tense and ongoing transformation of Chinese society from the late 1970s until today. www.ulisiggmovie.com

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International film critics discuss new Swiss films from this year’s programme of the Festival del film Locarno

Whatever The Weather

MARIJA

Bei Wind und Wetter Remo Scherrer

[ Concorso internazionale ]

MOKA

[ Piazza Grande ]

PESCATORI DI CORPI

Switzerland | Animation | 2016 | 11 min. Original language: German

[ Concorso Cineasti del Presente ]

ALOYS

[ Panorama Suisse ]

Carmen Gray The Guardian, Screen, Sight & Sound et al. Eric Kohn Indiewire Guy Lodge Variety Host: Catherine Ann Berger SWISS FILMS

Rendez-vous du cinéma suisse Tuesday, August 9 th 14:30-16:00 Spazio RSI [Magnolia]

World premiere: Cannes 2016 (Cinéfondation Selection) Production: Zeitraum Film GmbH, Adliswil | Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | SRG SSR World Sales: interfilm Berlin Management GmbH | T +49 30 25 94 29 04 | www.interfilm.de

Wally’s childhood is increasingly turned upside down by her mother's alcohol addiction. She experiences the excesses and consequences of addiction first hand. Desperately, the eight-year old tries to keep up normality in her own life and the life of her family by any means. A roller coaster ride between helplessness, excessive demands and desperation begins. A daily struggle for survival. www.beiwindundwetter.ch

ALOYS by Tobias Nölle [Hugofilm Productions] Panorama Suisse

H istoire ( s ) du cine m a C ine m a svi z z ero riscoperto – C le m ens K lopfenstein / J ean - L ouis R o y

WhoAfraidWolf

The Story Of Night

The Unknown Man Of Shandigor

WerAngstWolf Clemens Klopfenstein

Geschichte der Nacht Clemens Klopfenstein

Italy / Switzerland | Fiction | 2000 | 82 min. Original languages: German / English

Italy/Switzerland | Documentary | 1979 | 63 min. Original language: German

Switzerland | Fiction | 1967 | 90 min. Original language: French

Cast: Bruno Ganz / Tina Engel / Mathias Gnädinger / Stefan Kurt / Caroline Redl et al. Production and World Rights: Ombra Films, Bevagna clemens@klopfenstein.net www.klopfenstein.net A group of actors making their way to Rome ends up going astray due to the fog, darkness, ice and their own feelings of guilt, becoming completely lost in the sibylline hills.

Production: Ombra Films, Bevagna World Rights: Clemens Klopfenstein clemens@klopfenstein.net A black-and-white film made by a small camera-crew over 150 nights in many different parts of Europe, when the cities were empty and devoid of life. A collection of quiet, meditative pictures and sounds which the director and his collaborators brought back from a long journey through an empty, deserted Europe.

Cast: Marie-France Boyer / Ben Carruthers / Daniel Emilfork / Howard Vernon / Serge Gainsbourg Production: Frajea Films, Switzerland World Rights: Jean-Louis Roy, Geneva

L'inconnu de Shandigor Jean-Louis Roy

The interest of three rival groups – the Soviets, the Americans and ... “The Bald Heads” – has been aroused by the Canceler, a machine developed by scientist Herbert von Krantz which is capable of defusing nuclear forces.

C o m ing S oon

Dark Fortune

Frog

Finsteres Glück Stefan Haupt

Expected NOVEMBER 2016

Switzerland | Fiction | 114 min. Original language: Swiss-German

Cast: Eleni Haupt / Noé Ricklin / Elisa Plüss / Chiara Carla Bär / Martin Hug / Peter Jecklin / Rebecca Indermaur / Alice Flotron et al. Production: Triluna Film AG, Zurich | Fontana Film GmbH, Zurich | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | SRG SSR | Teleclub AG World Sales: WIDE, Paris | T +33 1 53 95 04 64 | www.widemanagement.com

Late at night, the psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital to take care of Yves, an eight-year-old boy, who just has lost his parents and siblings in a car accident. Eliane is both shocked and curiously drawn to the traumatized boy. As time goes by, she loses the professional distance to the patient, and when Yves’ relatives begin a heavy dispute about the boy's future, Eliane makes an unorthodox decision, that throws her life off track.

Der Frosch Jann Preuss Switzerland | Fiction | 80 min. Original language: Swiss-German

Expected January 2017

Cast: Urs Jucker / Liliane Amuat Production: Langfilm/Bernard Lang AG, Freienstein | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | Teleclub AG World Rights: Langfilm/Bernard Lang AG, Freienstein | T +41 44 865 66 27 | www.langfilm.ch

Jonas, once a successful writer, is stuck. A separation involving a child has left him depressed and wallowing in self-pity. To survive, he has to give writing courses for beginners. But his mood turns abruptly when the charming Gina shows up in his course. Jonas falls in love with her energy and spontaneity and wants to help her write a book. But in doing so he saddles himself with even bigger problems. A both funny and sad, self-mocking and warm-hearted movie about overcoming life’s crises.

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Goliath Dominik Locher Switzerland | Fiction | 85 min. Original languages: German / Swiss-German

Miséricorde Expected January 2017

Cast: Sven Schelker / Jasna Fritzi Bauer / José Barros / Michael Neuenschwander Production: CognitoFilms, Zurich | Zürcher Hochschule der Künste World Rights: CognitoFilms, Zurich | T +41 79 320 94 23 | www.cognito-films.ch

After David, a 24-year-old nuclear plant worker, and Jessy, his pregnant 22-year-old girlfriend, are beaten up, David starts working out and using steroids. However, instead of being able to protect his girlfriend and their unborn baby, he is becoming a threat to them. When the amateur bodybuilder loses his temper and brutally hits Jessy, she leaves him. Only when David abducts his newborn daughter from the hospital, he becomes aware of his maniac behavior. He returns the baby and asks his girlfriend for forgiveness.

Fulvio Bernasconi Switzerland / Canada | Fiction | 90 min. Original language: French

Expected Fall 2016

Cast: Jonathan Zaccaï / Evelyne Brochu / Daniel Gadouas / Charlie Arcouette / Marco Collin / Marie Hélène Belanger / Marthe Keller / Isabelle Caillat Production and World Rights: PointProd SA, Geneva | www.pointprod.ch | 1976 Productions Inc., Montreal | www.1976.tv | KNM, Monaco | RTS Radio Télévision Suisse

Thomas, a European, has come to Québec for some recreational fishing on his own. He then embarks on the road leading to the north of Canada, chasing after a black truck that killed the son of a young Amerindian woman. This Swiss cop in exile wants justice to be done. He has, however, other reasons for wanting to do the right thing.

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Sketches Of Lou

The Divine Order

Skizzen von Lou Lisa Blatter

Expected Fall 2016

Switzerland | Fiction | 85 min. Original language: Swiss-German

Cast: Esmée Liliane Amuat / Dashmir Ristemi Production and World Rights: 2:1 Film GmbH, Zurich T +41 43 536 99 75 www.2zu1film.com

Lou and Aro meet, they make love – refusing any commitment. Yet soon they are to face their deepest fears: allowing closeness, making decisions and taking on responsibility. Would you call it love?

Die göttliche Ordnung Petra Volpe Switzerland | Fiction | 96 min. Original language: Swiss-German

Expected Spring 2017

Cast: Marie Leuenberger / Max Simonischek / Sibylle Brunner / Therese Affolter / Rachel Braunschweig / Bettina Stucky / Nicholas Ofczarek / Ella Rumpf Production: Zodiac Pictures Ltd, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights Zodiac Pictures Ltd, Zurich T +41 44 534 66 33 www.zodiacpictures.com

Switzerland 1970: Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village. She is liked by everybody, until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot in February 1971.

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The Gardener (working title) Martin Guggisberg Switzerland | Fiction | 91 min. Original languages: Swiss-German / English

Wunderlich’s World Expected beginning 2017

Cast: Ruth Schwegler / Philippe Nauer / David Wurawa / Nick Monu Production: Tipi'mages Productions sàrl, Geneva | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | Teleclub AG | SRG SSR World Rights: Tipi'mages Productions sàrl, Geneva | T +41 22 735 41 18 | www.tipimages.ch

Therese and Ralph Gähwiler lead an idyllic, bourgeois life in a small Swiss town. Therese dabbles in art and walks her pooch. Ralph is working on his move into local politics. His motto is “competent, committed, outspoken”. Ralphs political ally is his even more conservative and uptight neighbour Peter, whose wife Monika is the epitome of nouveau riche. Therese and Ralph’s lives are turned upside down when an itinerant gardener Ngundu, badly injures himself on their land. As Ngundu refuses to go to hospital and is unable to leave, they have no choice but to keep him in the house – and out of sight. A satire / comedy-drama – Swiss style.

Die Welt der Wunderlichs Dani Levy Germany / Switzerland | Fiction | 102 min. Original language: German

World premiere: Filmfest München 2016 Cast: Katharina Schüttler / EWi Rodriguez / Peter Simonischek / Martin Feifel / Christiane Paul / Steffen Groth / Hannelore Elsner Production: X Filme Creative Pool GmbH, Berlin | Zodiac Pictures Ltd, Zurich SWR | ARTE | ARD Degeto Film GmbH, Frankfurt am Main SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | SRG SSR | Teleclub AG World Sales: Beta Cinema GmbH, Oberhaching | T +49 89 673469 828 | www.betafilm.com

Mimi, failed musician and overchallenged single mother of an imaginative and hyperactive son, takes a chance when her son secretly signs her up to a Swiss talent show. But she reckoned without her “beloved” family, who is about to accompany her to Zurich despite all of her resistance …

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