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at Locarno 2014 Visit us at the SWISS FILMS Desk in Locarno Rialto il Cinema, Via San Gottardo 1 info@swissfilms.ch | T +41 77 467 69 62 August 9 - 11, 9 am – 7 pm
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SWISS FILMS SCREENED IN LOCARNO 2014 Concorso internazionale
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Concorso cineasti del presente
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Fuori concorso
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Piazza Grande
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Semaine de la critique
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Panorama Suisse
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Pardi di domani: Concorso nazionale
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SWISS FILMS AS OF FALL 2014 Coming Soon
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Please verify screening schedule with official schedule
( BY DATE)
SWISS FILMS SCREENED IN LOC ARNO 2014
Thursday 07.08 11:00 21:00
FEVI I’ll Be The Goalie (Der Goalie bin ig) Teatro Kursaal Love Island
Sabine Boss Jasmila Žbanic
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Friday 08.08 11:00 14:00 21:30
FEVI La Sala Piazza Grande
Men Lareida several Jasmila Žbanic
21 22 21
Saturday 09.08
11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:30 16:15 17:45
Jasmila Žbanic Marcel Gisler Christian Frei several Peter Luisi Sabine Gisiger Matthias Huser
13 16 20 22 12 07 09
Sunday 10.08
09:00 09:00 11:00 11:00 14:00 16:30 18:30 20:00 21:00
Rialto 1 Love Island Teatro Kursaal Electroboy FEVI Sleepless in New York L’altra Sala Pardi di domani: Concorso nazionale P1 Rialto 2 Unlikely Heroes (Schweizer Helden) La Sala Yalom’s Cure Rialto 2 They Chased Me Through Arizona Teatro Kursaal The Shelter (L’Abri) L’altra Sala Yalom’s Cure Teatro Kursaal Mulhapar FEVI Mon père, la révolution et moi Teatro Kursaal Cure - The Life Of Another FEVI The Shelter (L’Abri) Rialto 2 Cure - The Life Of Another Rialto 1 Electroboy L’altra Sala Pardi di domani: Concorso nazionale P1
Fernand Melgar Sabine Gisiger Paolo Poloni Ufuk Emiroglu Andrea Štaka Fernand Melgar Andrea Štaka Marcel Gisler several
06 09 17 19 05 06 05 16 22
Monday 11.08
09:00 09:30 11:00 11:30 14:00 14:00 18:30
FEVI The Shelter (L’Abri) Fernand Melgar Rialto 1 Sabine Gisiger Yalom’s Cure FEVI Dreamland (Traumland) Petra Volpe Rialto 2 Pause Mathieu Urfer FEVI Cure - The Life Of Another Andrea Štaka La Sala Pardi di domani: Concorso nazionale P2 several L’altra Sala Mulhapar Paolo Poloni
06 09 18 11 05 22 17
Viktoria – A Tale Of Grace And Greed Pardi di domani: Concorso nazionale P1 Love Island
Industry Screenings for Industry Accreditations only Press Screenings also for Industry- and Professional Accreditations
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SWISS FILMS SCREENED IN LOC ARNO 2014
(BY DATE)
Please verify screening schedule with official schedule
Tuesday 12.08
11:00 11:30 16:15 18:00 18:30 21:00 23:15
FEVI Cloudy Times (El tiempo nublado) L’altra Sala Pardi di domani: Concorso nazionale P2 Rialto 1 Electroboy Teatro Kursaal They Chased Me Through Arizona PalaVideo The Shelter (L’Abri) Teatro Kursaal Unlikely Heroes (Schweizer Helden) La Sala Cure - The Life Of Another
Arami Ullon several Marcel Gisler Matthias Huser Fernand Melgar Peter Luisi Andrea Štaka
18 22 16 07 06 12 05
Wednesday 13.08
11:00 11:00 11:00 18:30 21:00 21:00 21:30
FEVI Patch FEVI Style Wars 2 PalaVideo Cure - The Life Of Another La Sala They Chased Me Through Arizona L’altra Sala Pardi di domani: Concorso nazionale P2 Teatro Kursaal The Blue Notes (Pause) Piazza Grande Unlikely Heroes (Schweizer Helden)
Gerd Gockell Veli Silver, Amos Angeles Andrea Štaka Matthias Huser several Mathieu Urfer Peter Luisi
20 21 05 07 22 11 12
Thursday 14.08
09:00 11:00 11:00 17:00 21:00 21:30
La Sala They Chased Me Through Arizona Teatro Kursaal Broken Land FEVI ThuleTuvalu La Sala Homo Faber (Drei Frauen) Teatro Kursaal Clouds Of Sils Maria Piazza Grande The Blue Notes (Pause)
Matthias Huser Stéphanie Barbey, Luc Peter Matthias von Gunten Richard Dindo Oliver Assayas Mathieu Urfer
07 15 21 08 14 11
Friday 15.08
09:00 10:00 10:00 11:00 11:00 18:30 21:30 21:30
L’altra Sala Teatro Kursaal Teatro Kursaal FEVI FEVI L’altra Sala Piazza Grande Rialto 2
Homo Faber (Drei Frauen) A propos de Venise Dialogue d’ombres Montauk Fog (Nebel) Broken Land Clouds Of Sils Maria They Chased Me Through Arizona
Richard Dindo Jean-Marie Straub Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet Vinz Feller Nicole Vögele Stéphanie Barbey, Luc Peter Oliver Assayas Matthias Huser
08 10 10 20 18 15 14 07
I am Femen (Je suis Femen) A propos de Venise Dialogue d’ombres
Alain Margot Jean-Marie Straub Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
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Saturday 16.08 11:00 FEVI 14:30 Rialto 2 14:30 Rialto 2
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Press Screenings also for Industry- and Professional Accreditations
CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE
Cure - The Life Of Another Cure – Das Leben einer Anderen Andrea Štaka
Switzerland / Croatia / Bosnia and Herzegovina Fiction, 2014, DCP, colour, 83 min. Cast: Sylvie Marinkovic / Lucia Radulovic Mirjana Karanovic / Marija Skaricic Leon Lucev / Franjo Dijak Production: Okofilm Productions GmbH, Zurich Ziva Produkcija, Zagreb Deblokada, Sarajevo SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen ZDF/ARTE
Dubrovnik in 1993, after the war. 14-year-old Linda has gone to a secluded beach with her new girlfriend Eta. She comes back alone but wearing Eta’s clothes. It doesn’t occur to anyone that Linda has anything to do with Eta's disappearance. Only her boyfriend Ivo has his suspicions. www.cure-film.ch
Press Screening Sunday, August 10, 14:00 Teatro Kursaal Industry Screening Sunday, August 10, 18:30 Rialto 2 Public Screenings Monday, August 11, 14:00 FEVI (World premiere) Tuesday, August 12, 23:15 La Sala
World Rights: Okofilm Productions GmbH, Zurich T +41 44 240 58 56, www.okofilm.com
Wednesday, August 13, 11:00 PalaVideo 5
CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE
The Shelter L’Abri
Fernand Melgar
Press Screening Sunday, August 10, 9:00 Teatro Kursaal Public Screenings Sunday, August 10, 16:30 FEVI (World premiere) Monday, August 11, 9:00 FEVI
It is winter at an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night at the door of this little-known basement facility the same entry ritual takes place, resulting in sometimes violent confrontations. Those on duty at the shelter have the difficult task of “triaging the poor”: women and children first, then the men. Only 50 “chosen ones” are admitted inside. www.abri-lefilm.com
Tuesday, August 12, 18:30 PalaVideo
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Switzerland Documentary 2014, DCP, colour, 101 min. Production: Climage, Lausanne RTS Radio Télévision Suisse SRG SSR World Sales: CAT&Docs, Paris T +33 1 44 59 63 53 www.catndocs.com
CONCORSO CINEASTI DEL PRESENTE
They Chased Me Through Arizona Matthias Huser
Switzerland / Poland Fiction, 2014, DCP, colour, 86 min. Cast: Krzysztof Kiersznowski / Eryk Lubos Halina Skoczynska Production: ventura film sa, Meride Lava Films, Lodz RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
The analogue era is over and so it seems Leonard and Marbella's marriage. Leonard has to dismantle all telephone booths scattered over the countryside. Together with Ben, a convict on parole, he drives in a pick-up truck among flat landscapes and post-industrial sites. His only refuge from manoeuvring in the unmapped territory of human connections becomes an old western novel.
World Rights: ventura film sa, Meride T +41 91 646 20 21 www.venturafilm.ch
Industry Screening Saturday, August 09, 17:45 Rialto 2 Press Screening Tuesday, August 12, 18:00 Teatro Kursaal Public Screenings Wednesday, August 13, 18:30 La Sala (World premiere) Thursday, August 14, 9:00 La Sala Friday, August 15, 21:30 Rialto 2
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FUORI CONCORSO
Homo Faber [Three Women] Homo Faber [Drei Frauen] Richard Dindo
Public Screenings Thursday, August 14, 17:00 La Sala (World premiere) Friday, August 15, 9:00 L’altra Sala
A cinematic reading of the novel by Max Frisch, with three actresses playing the part of the three female figures in the book. Marthe Keller takes on the role of Hanna, Faber’s former fiancée; Daphné Baiwir portrays her daughter Sabeth; and Amanda Barron is Ivy, Faber’s American mistress. We see the three women in the book’s settings and landscapes, in silent images from the past.
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Switzerland Docufiction, 2014, DCP, colour, 89 min. Cast: Marthe Keller / Daphné Baiwir Amanda Barron Production: Lea Produktion GmbH, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: Lea Produktion GmbH, Zurich T +41 44 462 46 93
FUORI CONCORSO
Yalom’s Cure Sabine Gisiger
Switzerland Documentary, 2014, DCP, colour, 77 min. Production: Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH, Zurich Vega Film AG, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: Autlook Filmsales GmbH, Vienna T +43 720 34 69 34 www.autlookfilms.com
The 80-year-old psychiatrist and best-selling author Irvin D. Yalom is considered to be the most influential psychotherapist in the USA. The film offers more than a classic biography: Yalom takes the viewer on an existential journey, navigating the depths and shallows of the human psyche. In this role as a guide, he imparts his discernments and provides insight into his own inner life. www.yalomscure.com
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Public Screenings Saturday, August 9, 16:15 La Sala (World premiere) Sunday, August 10, 9:00 L’altra Sala Industry Screening Monday, August 11, 09:30 Rialto 1
FUORI CONCORSO Switzerland/France Experimental, 2013, DCP, colour and b/w, 24 min. Production: Belva Film GmbH, ANDOLFI production World Rights: Belva Film GmbH
À propos de Venise Jean-Marie Straub
The glory and collapse of the grand Republic of Venice: the reasons are numerous, complex, and all too human. Are these the same ingredients, the mélange that might determine whether the current Europe will survive? Jean-Marie Straub poses the question more austere and concentrated than ever.
Dialogue d’ombres
Switzerland/France Experimental, 1954/2013, DCP, colour, 29 min.
Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
Production: Belva Film GmbH, ANDOLFI production World Rights: Belva Film GmbH
Public Screenings Friday, August 15, 10:00 Teatro Kursaal Saturday, August 16, 14:30 Rialto 2
A man and a woman engaged in a dialogue, talking about their love, as if talking across an abyss. Then, in the last take, the two of them close together, motionless for a long time. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub had met in Paris in 1954, around the year they came across the text by Georges Bernanos, to whom Straub has now dedicated a film.
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PIAZZA GRANDE
Pause Mathieu Urfer
Switzerland Fiction, DCP, colour, 2014, 82 min. Cast: Baptiste Gilliéron / Julia Faure André Wilms / Nils Althaus Roland Vouilloz / Nicole Letuppe Production: Box Productions sàrl, Renens VD RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera
Sami, a laid-back songwriter, is shocked when Julia, a brilliant lawyer with whom he’s been living for the last four years, decides to put their relationship on hold. Coached by his old friend Fernand, an alcoholic country musician living in a nursing home for the elderly, he tries to achieve the impossible to prove to her she’s the only woman for him.
World Sales: Picture Tree International GmbH, Berlin T +49 30 420 8248 - 14 www.picturetree-international.com
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Industry Screening Monday, August 11, 11:30 Rialto 2 Press Screening Wednesday, August 13, 21:00 Teatro Kursaal Public Screenings Thursday, August 14, 21:30 Piazza Grande (World premiere)
PIAZZA GRANDE
Unlikely Heroes Schweizer Helden Peter Luisi
Industry Screening Saturday, August 9, 11:30 Rialto 2 Press Screening Tuesday, August 12, 21:00 Teatro Kursaal
Sabine is a recently separated housewife who wants to stage the story of William Tell with asylum seekers. When news of the performance suddenly hits the media, Sabine goes beyond her limits to ensure the success of the play. www.schweizerhelden.ch
Public Screenings Wednesday, August 13, 21:30 Piazza Grande (World premiere)
Switzerland Fiction, 2014, DCP, colour, 94 min. Cast: Esther Gemsch / Karim Rahoma Komi Mizrajim Togbonou / Newroz Baz Elvis Clausen / Klaus Wildbolz Production: Spotlight Media Productions, Zurich Leaves & Leaches Pictures, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Teleclub World Sales: m-appeal world sales UG, Berlin T +49 30 61 50 75 05 www.m-appeal.com
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PIAZZA GRANDE
Love Island Jasmila Žbanic
Croatia, Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina Fiction, DCP, colour, 2014, 86 min. Cast: Ariane Labed / Ada Condescu / Ermin Bravo Franco Nero / Leon Lucev
This summer comedy tells the story of a couple and their holiday on the Croatian coast. While the husband, a big fan of karaoke, soon finds himself irresistibly attracted to a diving instructor, his wife also discovers her great, long-lost love in the beautiful foreigner.
Production: Ziva Produkcija, Zagreb Okofilm Productions GmbH, Zurich Komplizen Film GmbH, Berlin Deblokada, Sarajevo
Press Screening Thursday, August 7, 21:00 Teatro Kursaal Public Screenings Friday, August 8, 21:30 Piazza Grande (World premiere) Industry Screening Saturday, August 9, 11:00 Rialto 1
World Sales: The Match Factory GmbH, KĂśln T +49 221 539 70 90 www.the-match-factory.com 13
PIAZZA GRANDE
© Carole Bethuel CG Cinéma
Clouds Of Sils Maria Olivier Assayas
Press Screening Thursday, August 14, 21:00 Teatro Kursaal Public Screenings Friday, August 15, 21:30 Piazza Grande (World premiere)
Maria Enders is at the peak of her international career. She was discovered twenty years earlier when playing the role of Sigrid, a girl who fascinates Helena and drives her to suicide. Now she is asked to perform the play again but this time in the role of Helena. Will she act the victim and thereby confront her mid-life doubts and insecurities which she has managed to doge until now? World premiere: Cannes 2014, International Competition
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France / Germany / Switzerland Fiction, 2014, DCP, colour, 123 min. Cast: Juliette Binoche / Kristen Stewart Chloë Grace Moretz / Lars Eidinger / Johnny Flynn Brady Corbet / Gilles Tschudi Production: CG Cinéma, Paris Pallas Film GmbH, Halle CAB Productions SA, Chavannes-près-Renens Vortex Sutra, Bagnolet ARTE ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen Orange Studio, Paris RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Rights: MK2 International, Paris, T +33 1 44 67 30 00 www.mk2pro.com
SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE
Broken Land Stéphanie Barbey / Luc Peter Artistic collaboration:
Peter Mettler
Switzerland Documentary, 2014, DCP, colour, 75 min. Production: Intermezzo Films SA, Geneva RTS Radio Télévision Suisse SRG SSR ARTE G.E.I.E. World Sales: Deckert Distribution GmbH, Leipzig T +49 341 215 66 38 www.deckert-distribution.com
Seven Americans – neighbours of an immense fence, erected to control Mexican immigration – unfold how the nearby US-Mexican border transforms their lives. Out in the desert they observe the haunting traces left by the crossing migrants, people they never come face to face with. They confide their fear, defiance and at times even their compassion.
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Public Screenings Thursday, August 14, 11:00 Teatro Kursaal (World premiere) Friday, August 15, 18:30 L’altra Sala
SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE
Electroboy Marcel Gisler
Public Screenings Saturday, August 9, 11:00, Teatro Kursaal (World premiere) Sunday, August 10, 20:00 Rialto 1
Trials and tribulations in the life and family history of Florian Burkhardt, who abandoned the constraints of his background to set out into the world in search of fame and recognition. His quest is a mercurial search for identity that ends in fear and disillusionment, but also in a comforting return to his true self.
Tuesday, August 12, 16:15 Rialto 1
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Switzerland Documentary, 2014, DCP, colour, 113 min. Production: Bernard Lang AG, Freienstein SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: Bernard Lang AG, Freienstein T +41 44 865 66 27 www.langfilm.ch
SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE
Mulhapar Paolo Poloni
Switzerland Documentary, 2014, DCP, colour, 93 min. Production and World Rights: RECK Filmproduktion GmbH, Zurich T +41 241 37 63 www.reckfilm.ch
Mulhapar – a small village in Pakistan – far removed from contentions and prejudices. The film immerses in the village community teeming with life, condensing the fates of families and individuals, as well as tales and anecdotes to form a vibrant and poetic mosaic. Anti-dogmatically and respectfully, the film endeavours to encompass the entire spectrum of human existence.
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Public Screenings Sunday, August 10, 11:00 Teatro Kursaal Monday, August 11, 18:30 L’altra Sala
PANOR AM A SUISSE
Cloudy Times
Dreamland
Fog
Arami Ullon
Petra Volpe
Nicole Vögele
Switzerland / Paraguay Documentary, 2013, 91 min. World premiere: Visions du Réel Nyon, April 2014
Switzerland / Germany Fiction, DCP, colour, 98 min. World premiere: Zurich Film Festival, September 2013
Germany Documentary, DCP, colour, 60 min. World premiere: Berlinale, February 2014
Production: Cineworx Filmproduktion GmbH, Zurich Arami Ullon, Asuncion World Rights: Cineworx Filmproduktion GmbH, Zurich T +41 44 500 40 81 www.cineworxfilmproduktion.ch Switzerland based director Arami Ullon returns home to Paraguay to take care of her mother, suffering from epilepsy and Parkinson. www.eltiemponublado.com
Production: Zodiac Pictures Ltd, Zurich Wüste Film Ost OHG, Berlin SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Picture Tree International GmbH, Berlin
Production and World Rights: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg, T +49 157 71 33 59 17 www.filmakademie.de A film like a finely-woven tapestry. www.nebelfilm.com
El tiempo nublado
Traumland
T +49 30 420 824 80, www.picturetree-international.com
Driven by sexual desires and disappointments the life of four people cross with that of a young Eastern European prostitute on Christmas Eve in Zürich. www.traumland-film.ch
Nebel
Watch film on Public Screening Tuesday, Aug 12, 11:00 | FEVI
Public Screening Monday, Aug 11, 11:00 | FEVI 18
Public Screening Friday, Aug 15, 11:00 | FEVI
PANOR AM A SUISSE
I Am Femen
I’ll Be The Goalie Der Goalie bin ig
Mon père, la révolution et moi
Alain Margot
Sabine Boss
Ufuk Emiroglu
Switzerland Documentary, 2014, 95 min. World premiere: Visions du Réel Nyon, April 2014
Switzerland Fiction, DCP, colour, 92 min. World premiere: Solothurner Filmtage, January 2014
Switzerland Documentary, DCP, colour, 81 min. World premiere: Istanbul Documentary Days, June 2013
Production: Caravel production Sàrl, Lausanne World Sales: Be For Films, Brussels T +33 6 14 34 37 55 www.beforfilms.com Oxana is a woman, a fighter, an artist. The feature-length documentary follows the young, radical and creative woman who wants to change the world.
Production: C-Films AG, Zurich Carac Film AG, Bolligen SRG SSR World Rights: C-Films AG, Zurich T +41 44 253 65 55, www.c-films.com
Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Zurich Akka Films, Bernex RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Rights: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Zurich T +41 44 456 30 20, www.dvfilm.ch This family drama takes us from Turkey in the 1970s to Switzerland in the 21st century, dealing with exile, prison, false money, fallen heroes, hippies gone astray and a revolutionary disco along the way.
Je suis Femen
It’s at the end of the eighties, and hedonist Ernst, known as “Goalie,” returns from prison to the small town he grew up in, trying to start a new life, one without drugs. www.goaliefilm.ch
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Public Screening Thursday, Aug 7, 11:00 | FEVI
Public Screening Sunday, Aug 10, 11:00 | FEVI 19
PANOR AM A SUISSE
Montauk
Patch
Sleepless In New York
Vinz Feller
Gerd Gockell
Christian Frei
Switzerland Fiction, DCP, colour, 15 min. World premiere:
shnit Int. Shortfilmfestival, Bern, September 2013
Switzerland / Germany Animation, DCP, colour, 3 min. World premiere: Solothurn Film Festival, January 2014
Switzerland Documentary, DCP, colour, 92 min. World premiere: Visions du Réel, April 2014
Production: Contrast Film Bern GmbH, Bern SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Interfilm Berlin, Berlin T +49 30 25 84 29 04 www.interfilm.de Elisabeth embarks on a trip to Montauk with her husband’s ashes - a journey during which she learns to transform her initial rage into grief and forgiveness.
Production: Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion, Lucern Anigraf Filmproduktion, Hannover World Rights: Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion, Lucern T +41 41 370 06 75 www.anigraf.org An experimental animated short film using abstract painting to explore the tension field between abstraction and recognisability.
Production and World Rights: Christian Frei Filmproduktion, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRG SSR ZDF/ARTE World Sales: Films Transit International Inc., Montreal T +1 514 844 33 58, www.filmstransit.com The film explores the difficult path out of self-destructive behaviour, toward a new self. And it wonders about the unwavering desire – despite it all – for love. www.sleepless-in-new-york.com Watch film on
Public Screening Friday, Aug 15, 11:00 | FEVI
Public Screening Wednesday, Aug 13, 11:00 | FEVI 20
Public Screening Saturday, Aug 9, 11:00 | FEVI
PANOR AM A SUISSE
Style Wars 2
ThuleTuvalu
Viktoria – A Tale Of Grace And Greed
Veli Silver | Amos Angeles
Matthias von Gunten
Men Lareida
Switzerland Documentary, DCP, colour, 69 min. World premiere: Portoroz Festival, Slowenia, Sept. 2013
Switzerland Documentary, DCP, colour, 96 min. World premiere: Visions du Réel, April 2014
Switzerland Fiction, DCP, colour, 88 min. World premiere:
Production and World Rights: Amos Angeles, Zurich Veli Silver, Zurich veli-amos.net A tongue in cheek homage to the cult film “Style Wars” from 1983. Veli and Amos embark on a wild journey from Europe to New York and to the Middle East, from galleries to war zones. www.stylewars2.com
Production: HesseGreutert Film, Zurich Odysseefilm, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Accent Films International Ltd., Montreux T +41 21 963 93 00, www.accent-films.com The warming of the planet is changing the existence for the inhabitants of Thule and Tuvalu. The film portrays how they are forced to abandon their traditional way of life as they move towards an unknown future. www.thuletuvalu.com
Production and World Rights: HesseGreutert Film, Zurich T +41 43 322 18 22 www.hessegreutert.ch Viktoria leaves her hometown Budapest hoping to make money in Zürich. In a rough environment of violence, greed and fast sex, she discovers also love, friendship – and herself.
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Public Screening Wednesday, Aug 13, 11:00 | FEVI
Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken, January 2014
Public Screening Thursday, Aug 14, 11:00 | FEVI
Public Screening Friday, Aug 8, 11:00 | FEVI 21
PARDI DI DOM ANI - CONCORSO NAZIONALE
Public Screenings Friday, August 8, 14:00 La Sala
PROGRAM 1 Totems
Sarah Arnold
29 min.
Peau
Marine Koenig
12 min.
Saturday, August 9, 11:00 L’altra Sala
Abseits der Autobahn
Rhona Mühlebach
22 min.
Le mal du citron
Kaspar Schiltknecht, Jeremy Rosenstein 21 min.
Sunday, August 10, 21:00 L’altra Sala
Prose du transsibérien
David Epiney
11 min.
Public Screenings Monday, August 11, 14:00 La Sala
PROGRAM 2 Le miel est plus doux que le sang Colia Vranici
24 min.
Tuesday, August 12, 11:30 L’altra Sala
Die Hälfte der Welt
Jérôme Furrer
18 min.
Orages d‘été
Nadège De Benoit Luthy
20 min.
Wednesday, August 13, 21:00 L’altra Sala
Petit homme
Jean-Guillaume Sonnier
30 min.
Aubade
Mauro Carraro
6 min.
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SHORT FILM LIBR ARY
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RENDEZ-VOUS DU CINEMA SUISSE
R E N D E Z-V O U S D U C I N É M A S U I S S E RSI Magnolia, Tuesday, August 12 14h30-15h30, admission is free The international film critics
• Sandrine Marques (Le Monde) • Thierry Méranger (Cahiers du Cinéma) • Herbert Spaich (SWR) take a closer look at the following Swiss productions in this year’s program of the Festival del film Locarno: THE SHELTER (L’ABRI) by Fernand Melgar CURE – THE LIFE OF ANOTHER by Andrea Štaka BROKEN LAND by Stéphanie Barbey / Luc Peter CLOUDY TIMES (EL TIEMPO NUBLADO) by Arami Ullon MON PÈRE, LA RÉVOLUTION ET MOI by Ufuk Emiroglu The talk is organised by SWISS FILMS, in collaboration with the Solothurn Film Festival and the Festival del film Locarno. The discussion is moderated by SWISS FILMS Director Catherine Ann Berger.
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COMING SOON
Chubby Bouboule
Bruno Deville
Switzerland / Belgium Fiction, DCP, colour, 83 min. World premiere: Planned for November 2014 Cast: Swann Arlaud / Julie Ferrier / David Thielemans Production: CAB Productions SA, Chavannes-près-Renens Versus Production, Liège RTS Radio Télévision Suisse RTBF Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française
Kevin, aka Bouboule, is twelve years old and 100 kilos in weight. When he doesn’t have to deal with his oppressive mother, his mean sisters or the doctor he is being used as a neighbourhood punching bag. As a result Kevin keeps stuffing himself with chips or pots of crème brûlée in order to enter his colourful dream world where everything is lighter and funnier, until he becomes friends with a security guard and his dog.
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COMING SOON
Dora Or The Sexual Neuroses Of Our Parents Dora oder die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern Stina Werenfels
After her mother decided that the eighteenyear-old mentally disabled Dora no longer has to take psychotherapeutic drugs, the young woman begins to blossom. The sedated teenager was never a problem for her surroundings – but new challenges arise when the pleasure-loving young woman discovers her sexuality. The family is threatened to fall apart.
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Switzerland / Germany Fiction, DCP, colour, 90 min. World premiere: Planned for Winter 2015 Cast: Victoria Schulz / Jenny Schily Urs Jucker / Lars Eidinger Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich Niko Film, Berlin SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Magmafilm GmbH, Essen FilmfĂśrderungsanstalt, German Federal Film Board, Berlin Aleppo Films, Zurich World Rights: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich T +41 44 456 30 20, www.dvfilm.ch
COMING SOON
Driften Karim Patwa
Switzerland Fiction, DCP, colour, 93 min. World premiere: Planned for Autumn 2014 Cast: Max Hubacher / Sabine Timoteo Marcus Signer / Scherwin Amini Jessy Moravec / Susanne-Marie Wrage Adrian Furrer / Andrea Zogg
Robert, a former driver in illegal races, returns to his hometown Dietikon after a long period of absence. He is determined to put his past behind him and starts an apprenticeship in a repair shop. When he meets teacher Alice, his life starts to unravel – they are connected by the strong bond of a dark past.
Production and World Rights: Bernard Lang AG, Freienstein T +41 44 865 66 27 www.langfilm.ch
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COMING SOON
Chrieg Simon Jaquemet
Fifteen-year-old Matteo is attractive, albeit somewhat girlish and frail. The whole world is against him. The pressure increases as his awkward attempts to win his father’s respect fail. One night two men carry him off: his parents send him to a remote alp, where he is forced to work hard on a family farm.
Switzerland Fiction, DCP, colour, 108 min. World premiere: 62nd Festival internacional de Cine San Sebastian, September 2014 Cast: Benjamin Lutzke / Stefan Weibel / Ella Rumpf Sascha Gisler / John Leuppi / Livia S. Reinhard Ernst C. Sigrist Production: Hugofilm Productions GmbH, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Picture Tree International GmbH, Berlin T +49 30 420 824 80 www.picturetree-international.com
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Iraqi Odyssey Samir
Switzerland / Germany / United Arab Emirates Documentary, 3D, DCP, colour, 162 min. World premiere: 39th Toronto International Film Festival, September 2014 Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich Coin Film, Cologne WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SANAD Fund, Abu Dhabi World Sales: Autlook Filmsales GmbH, Vienna T +43 720 34 69 34 www.autlookfilms.com
Bombs, bearded men, sobbing women, shattered cities: Iraq, as seen through the eyes of the western media these days. These images are juxtaposed with those from the fifties and seventies: films with frivolous music, unveiled women who study; elegantly dressed men in Bagdad, a modern city. Film director Samir tells the story of his globalised middle-class Iraqi family, scattered around the world. www.iraqiodyssey.com
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Together Forever Kaspar Kasics
A documentary filmmaker sets out in search of romantic love and comes across two completely different stories: one begins on the Internet, where the bookkeeper Peter M채der met the Ukrainian Tetyana Jurijwna. In contrast, Hannah and Samuel Robertson in Portland have already been together for eleven years. Their secret lies in their mutual passion for music. But is that enough for love to survive?
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Switzerland Documentary, DCP, colour, 100 min. World premiere: Planned for Autumn 2014 Production: Distant Lights GmbH, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Zurich World Rights: Distant Lights GmbH, Zurich T +41 44 363 82 03 www.distantlights.ch
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+++ New films by MICHA LEWINSKY, ESEN ISIK, NICOLAS WADIMOFF coming 2015 +++
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