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SWISS NeugasseFILMS6,8005 ImagePublishedwww.swissfilms.chZurichinJuly2022campaignbyPierluigiSWISSMacorFILMS INFO POINT: Palazzo Sopracenerina at the Piazza Grande August 3–8
SWISS FILMS TEAM PIAZZA PARDISEMAINEFUORICONCORSOGRANDEINTERNAZIONALECONCORSODELACRITIQUEDIDOMANI:CONCORSONAZIONALEPRE-FESTIVALPIAZZAGRANDE RETROSPETTIVA DOUGLAS SIRK LOCARNO KIDS: SCREENINGS PANORAMA SUISSE PANORAMA SUISSE SHORTS COMING SOON IN SUPPORTSHORTPRODUCTIONFILMLIBRARYMEASURES10�56915 2016151825424344 SWISS FILMS AT THE LOCARNO FESTIVAL 2022 NICOLA RUFFO Tnruffo@swissfilms.chDirector+41765750380 ANDREAS BÜHLMANN Head of Festivals & Tabuehlmann@swissfilms.chMarkets+41793035869 LAURA Tldaniel@swissfilms.chTalentConsultantDANIELFilm,&Awards+41763436116SYLVAINTsvaucher@swissfilms.chConsultantVAUCHERShortFilms+41795428380DANIELA STRIKA Support Scheme support@swissfilms.chManager MARCEL Tmmueller@swissfilms.chProgrammesConsultantMÜLLERFilm,&VOD+41797879388CHARLOTTE DUCOS Consultant Documentary Film & Marketing Tcducos@swissfilms.chStrategies+41766045495
EVERYTHINGEVERYTHINGSuter.ABOUTMARTINSUTER.BUTTHETRUTH.written&directedbyAndréSchäfer WORLD SALES: DCM, WORLDwww.dcmstories.comBerlinPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival 2022 INTERNATIONAL PRESS: Andrea Tinfo@vogelperspektiven.chVogel+41793568680 SWITZERLAND / GERMANY Documentary, 90 min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: PRODUCTION:GermanFilmgerberei GmbH, Zurich / Florianfilm GmbH, Cologne / SRF / SRG SSR / ARTE SWISSFlavioNadinePRODUCERS:Lüchinger,Gerber Documentary
ALLES ÜBER MARTINAUSSERSUTER.DIEWAHRHEIT. ANDRÉ SCHÄFER * 1966 in Germany. André Schäfer has directed and produced numerous documentaries for over twenty years. HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU, BOY (2007) and ROCK HUDSON – DARK AND HANDSOME STRANGER (2010) both premiered at the Berlinale. He was nominated for the German Film Award with LENIN CAME ONLY AS FAR AS LÜDENSCHEID (2008). DEUTSCHBODEN (2014) received the German Film Critics’ Award for Best Documentary. This film is not a classic portrait but a documentary using fiction to bring Martin Suter’s novels to life while introducing us to the author behind the stories on a whole new level. “Fantasy is usually more true than reality itself” says
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DELPHINE LEHERICEY * 1975. Delphine Lehericey studied Performing Arts at the University of Paris X and performed in numerous theatre productions before directing her own films. Her first feature PUPPYLOVE (2013) was awarded Best Belgian Feature at the FIFF Namur. BEYOND THE HORIZON (2019), her second feature film, won Best Film and Best Screenplay at the Swiss Film Awards and screened at various international festivals. LAST DANCE premieres on Locarno’s Piazza Grande in 2022.
At the age of seventy-five, Germain, a contemplative and homely man, finds himself a widower and is trying to cope with his children’s invasive anxiety. True to a promise he made to his wife years ago, he is going to have to take his place in a contemporary dance performance, in secret from his family. SALES: For Films,
LAST DANCE written & directed by Delphine Lehericey
INTERNATIONALWORLDwww.beforfilms.comBrusselsPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival2022PRESS:AlibiCommunicationsBrigittaPortierbrigittaportier@alibicommunications.beT+32477982584 SWITZERLAND / BELGIUM Fiction, 84 min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: CAST:FrenchFrançois Berléand, Kacey Mottet Klein, La Ribot, Sabine Timoteo, Anna Pieri Zuercher, Jean-Benoît Ugeux PRODUCTION:BoxProductions sàrl, Lausanne / Need Productions, Brussels / RTS / RTBF / BeTv SWISSElenaPRODUCERS:Tatti,ThierrySpicher
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Fiction WORLD SALES: Pluto Film GmbH, Berlin WORLDwww.plutofilm.dePREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival 2022 INTERNATIONAL PRESS: NOISE Film & TV Mirjam Tmirjam@noisefilmpr.comWiekenkamp+31628652249 SWITZERLANDFiction,85min., 2022 ORIGINAL CAST:Tigrinya,LANGUAGES:Swiss-GermanLulaMebrahtu,TedrosTeclebrhan,HermelaTekleab,FanuelMengstab,ManuelaBiedermann,MehmetAteşçi,MonaPetriPRODUCTION:Cinédokké,Savosa/CineworxFilmproduktionBaselGmbH,Basel/RSIPRODUCERS:MichelaPini,PascalTrächslin
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With the help of Yemane, a new hospital employee who is also an Eritrean refugee, she is finally able to face the tragic memories of her SEMRETescape.
CATERINA MONA * 1973. Caterina Mona studied English Literature before studying Film at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle (INSAS) in Brussels. She graduated as an editor in 2001. Besides editing several feature and documentary films she worked for the film festivals in Locarno and Berlin. Her short film LOST premiered in Locarno in 2015. SEMRET is her first feature-length film and premieres on the Piazza Grande at the 2022 edition of the Locarno Film Festival.
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Semret lives a modest and quite isolated life in Zurich with her teenage daughter Joe. She works at a hospital and is applying to a midwife training programme. When Joe starts to ask about her own roots from Eritrea, Semret can no longer repress her past and has to confront her traumas.
INTERNATIONALWORLDwww.theopenreel.comTorinoPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival2022PRESS:TheOpenReelFedericoMancinipress@theopenreel.comT+393472654143SWITZERLANDFiction,110min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: French, Spanish, English, German, Swiss-German CAST:Robin Mognetti, Valentin Merz, Dogartzi PRODUCERS:PRODUCTION:MaraMaxiJean-CharlesMagunagoicoechea,deQuillacq,Schmitz,NataliaPortnoy,ThurnheerAndreaFilm,ZurichMarieLanne-Chesnot,ValentinMerz 1ERUTAEFT1SSTFEATURE
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While the local police investigates, the film shoot continues but takes an odd turn. Robin, the cameraman and director’s lover, follows a promise and reaches the Mexican Pacific.
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DE NOCHE LOS GATOS SON PARDOS written & directed by Valentin Merz
VALENTIN MERZ * 1985. Valentin Merz moved to Mexico City in 2007 where he worked as a typographer. From 2009–14 he worked in Berlin in cinema and theatre before studying film at Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève). His short films have been screened at international festivals. In 2018, he cofounded the production company Andrea Film. His first feature film DE NOCHE LOS GATOS SON PARDOS (2022) premieres in Locarno’s International Competition. A crew is shooting a libertine costume film in the countryside when Valentin, the director, suddenly disappears.
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LA DÉRIVE DES CONTINENTS(AUSUD) LIONEL BAIER * 1975. Lionel Baier cofounded Bande à part Films with Ursula Meier, Jean-Stéphane Bron and Frédéric Mermoud in 2009. Baier is best known for the award-winning LONG WAVE (2013), which was honoured with the Trophée Francophone for Best Director. VANITY (2015) was selected for ACID in Cannes.
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Nathalie Adler is on a mission for the EU in Sicily. She organizes the next visit of Macron and Merkel to a migrant camp. Their presence has a high symbolic value to show that everything is under control. But who still wants to believe in this European family on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Probably not Albert, Nathalie’s son, an NGO activist who arrives without warning. He, moreover, no longer believes in his mother.
SHOCK WAVES – FIRST NAME: MATHIEU screened in the Berlinale Panorama in 2018. CONTINENTAL DRIFT (SOUTH) premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2022.
DRIFTCONTINENTAL(SOUTH)directedbyLionelBaier
Fiction WORLD SALES: Les Films du Losange, INTERNATIONALWORLDwww.filmsdulosange.comParisPREMIERE:Cannes2022PRESS:RENDEZ-VOUSVivianaAndrianiviviana@rv-press.comT+33680168139 SWITZERLAND / FRANCE Fiction, 89 min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: French, Italian, English SCREENPLAY:LionelBaier, Laurent Larivière CAST:Isabelle Carré, Théodore Pellerin, Ursina Lardi, Ivan Georgiev, Tom Villa, Daphne PRODUCTION:ScocciaBanditaFilms,Geneva / Les Films du Losange, Paris / SWISSRTSPaulinePRODUCERS:Gygax,Max Karli
WithLocarno.her worldwide success “Fear of Flying”, the New Yorker Erica Jong inspired the sexual liberation of women. She dared to set out for herself and demanded an encounter on equal terms. She wanted to change the world and still wants to today. With her own story, with her humour and with trust in the power of
CONCORSOFUORI7ERICA JONG BREAKING THE WALL written & directed by Kaspar Kasics
KASPAR KASICS Kaspar Kasics studied philosophy at the University of Zurich and music at the Conservatory of Zurich. In the 1990s he began working as an independent director and producer. For thirteen years he led the Swiss Filmmakers Association as president. His documentaries CLOSED COUNTRY (1999) and BLUE END (2000) premiered in the official selection of the Berlinale and YES NO MAYBE (2015) and ERICA JONG –BREAKING THE WALL (2022) in
SWITZERLANDwords.Documentary,96 min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: PRODUCTION:EnglishDistantLights GmbH, Zurich / Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich / SRF PRODUCERS:KasparKasics,SereinaGabathuler,WernerSwissSchweizer WORLD SALES: Rise and Shine World Sales, INTERNATIONALWORLDwww.riseandshine-berlin.deBerlinPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival2022PRESS:VincaFilminfo@vincafilm.chT+41439603916 Documentary
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SYLVAIN GEORGE * 1968 in France. Sylvain George is a French filmmaker. After studying philosophy, he directed poetic, political and experimental film essays, notably on the theme of immi gration. His films such as MAY THEY REST IN REVOLT (2010) and PARIS EST UNE FÊTE (2017), have been screened in activist networks, as well as in international festivals such as Cinéma du réel, CPH:DOX, Torino Film Festival, BAFICI, Viennale Centre Pompidou, Forum des Images, Festival de Lussas, FID Marseille.
Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, is one of the only land borders between the African continent and Europe. A buffer zone on the external borders of Europe, towards which migrants from the Asian continent, the Maghreb and Black Africa converge. A place where European migration policies, their stakes and their consequences can be read and LEAVES written & directed by Sylvain George
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WORLD RIGHTS: Alina film, WORLDwww.alinafilm.comGenevaPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival 2022 FRANCE / Documentary,SWITZERLAND265min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: PRODUCTION:ArabicNoirproduction, Paris / Alina film, Geneva SWISSDavidEugeniaPRODUCERS:Mumenthaler,Epiney Documentary
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Theindocumentaryfeature-lengthandpremieresLocarno’sCriticsWeek.BalkanWarofthe nineties resulted in the disappearance of thousands of people; their remains possibly missing forever. Survivors and those left behind pin their hopes on excavations and scientific work. Forensic anthropologists and archaeologists work with great concentration. A person takes shape bone by bone. Will he also get an identity? Will relatives finally receive closure and a grave to anchor their remembrance and grief?
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JAN BAUMGARTNER * 1987. Jan Baumgartner is a self-taught filmmaker. He discovered his passion for photography and filmmaking through extensive traveling. He works as a freelance film maker and photographer. His short TALKING SOIL (2018) screened in the International Competition in Winterthur.
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DOMANIDIPARDIFictionFiction10 SWITZERLAND / FRANCE Fiction, 40 min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: CAST:ItalianOndina Quadri, Alexia PRODUCTION:SarantopoulouAlvaFilmProduction,Geneva / 5 à 7 Films, Paris / RTS WORLD WORLDWORLDSWITZERLANDWORLDwww.manifest.picturesManifest,SALES:ParisPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival2022Fiction,15min.,2022ORIGINALLANGUAGE:FrenchCAST:ClémentCourgeon,WendellCardosoPRODUCTIONANDRIGHTS:RomainJaccoudwww.romainjaccoud.comPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival2022 labourer,Steve,wayBrandon,bikebyInGreeceoneistheywoman.OndinaBRANDONEURIDICE,EURIDICEwritten&directedbyLoraMure-RavaudROIwritten&directedbyRomainJaccoudisaradiant,happyyoungSheliveswithAlexia,areinlove.Theirrelationshippassionateandsensual.Butday,Alexiafliestohernativeanddoesnotreturn.theheartofavalleysurroundedmountains,thesoundofamotor-enginecanbeheard.Itisawrestlerwhoisonhistoaquarrywherehisfriendaformerfighterturnedworks.
DOMANIDIPARDI11FictionExperimentalSWITZERLANDExperimental, 8 min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: PRODUCTIONFrench AND WORLDGenevaRIGHTS:University of Art and Design HEAD – Genève WORLDheadcinema.chPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival 2022 SWITZERLAND / FRANCE Fiction, 17 min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: SCREENPLAY:FrenchZoelAeschbacher,GaniaLatrocheCAST:DorinDragos,Pascal Tagnati PRODUCTION:BoxProductions, Lausanne / Yukunkun Productions, Paris / Canal + / RTS WORLDSalaudSALES:Morisset, WORLDwww.salaudmorisset.comBerlinPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival2022 GODS OF aAsincerity.sendscontentaanbyship.directorthemovement,InLESSUPERMARKETTHEDIEUXDUSUPERMARCHÉwritten&directedbyAlbertoGonzalezMoralesFAIRPLAYdirectedbyZoelAeschbachertimesofthebodypositivitythisfilmpaystributetomalebodywithwhichthehasalove-haterelationBothobsessedandfrustratedit,thisidealbodyrepresentsunreachablefantasy.Throughmontagemadefromnetfootage,collectedonline,heitamessageimbuedwithteenagerinsearchofrecognition,workerreadytodoanythingtohitthejackpot,aseniorexecutiveattheendofhiscareerwhowantstoprovetohimselfthatheisstillalive.Threecharacterswhoarelosingtheirwayonthecompe-titionhighway. TSTUDENTSTUDENQUEERCINEMACOMEDYCOMEDY
The four long-time friends Vanja, Alex, Liz and Evie go on a camping trip together. Something is in the air between the four women. It soon becomes clear that it is the abortion that Vanja has just had. This experience puts their friendship to the test. Alex in particular has great difficulty dealing with it and standing by her best friend. However, her inadequacy is based on completely different feelings. City people set off into a warm late summer night. Glances meet in a library. At a workout, two men discuss where to buy love. A couple kisses intimately. No sooner has he bought a match than a better offer calls. Doubts arise. At breakfast, his match chews her so egg loud that he freezes in disgust. Only the dance makes them temporarily forget who they are and what will happen tomorrow.
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DOMANIDIPARDIFiction12 SWITZERLANDFiction,15min., 2022 ORIGINAL WORLDWORLDSCREENPLAY:Swiss-GermanLANGUAGE:MichèleFlury,MarthaBenedictCAST:MarthaBenedict,RabeaLüthi,LouHaltinner,AnoukBarakatPRODUCTION:MichèleFlury,Basel/VickySaraRamsay,ZurichWORLDRIGHTS:MichèleFlury,Baselmicheleflury@hotmail.comWORLDPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival2022SWITZERLANDFiction,20min.,2022ORIGINALLANGUAGES:German,Swiss-GermanCAST:SofiaElenaBorsani,LottiHapple,MaximilianKraus,MilianZerzawy,SeverinHallauer,JumanaIssa,FlavioLucaMarano,DeborahMacauleyPRODUCTIONANDRIGHTS:ZurichUniversityoftheArtsZHdKwww.zhdk.chPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival2022 HEARTHEARTBEATdirectedbyMichèleFluryFRUITwritten&directedbyKimAllamand
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In a forest he digitised, Simon runs. Within an autobiographical narrative where the images were entirely captured in the forest of Chaney in Switzerland, running embodies the intimate link between the protagonist and the forest, a forest that is now being destroyed by a gravel pit. Immersed in a fragmented world, Simon questions the reasons that pushed him to 3D scan his forest. A woman, a dancer, a creature, dances, free. She makes fun of the violence, the insults, the stares that prevail around her.
DOMANIDIPARDIDocufictionFiction14 SWITZERLANDFiction,16min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: CAST:GermanUrsulaBienz, Tobias Bienz, Wiebke Mollenhauer, Linda Gunst, Urs-Peter Wolters, Peter Hottinger PRODUCTION AND WORLDZurichRIGHTS:University ofthe Arts WORLDwww.zhdk.chZHdKPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival 2022 SWITZERLANDDocufiction,11 min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: French, WORLDPRODUCTIONItalianANDRIGHTS:GenevaUniversity of Art and Design HEAD – Genève WORLDheadcinema.chPREMIERE:LocarnoFilmFestival 2022 THE labourhaveForMatthiasDERCONGRESSNEWTMOLCHKONGRESSwritten&directedbySahli,ImmanuelEsserSERAFINAwritten&directedbyAnnaSimonetti,NoaEparsyearsnow,gianttalkingnewtsbeenusedbothfortheirandaslaboratoryanimals.TheNewtCongresstakesplaceataconferencebuildingsurroundedbynaturewhereparticipantshavecometogethertooptimizetheexploitationoftheanimals.TheshortfilmisafreeadaptationofKarelČapek’s“WarwiththeNewts”.Anorthodoxheroineastrideamotorbike.Youngpeoplebreakingthemonotonyofacountrylifethroughstuntriding.AmeetingagainstaWesternbackdropbetweentwouniversesthatareatoddswitheachotherexceptfortheirveryreasonforbeing:passion.CFTSTUDENTSTUDENANTASTICFANTASTISTUDENTSTUDENT
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An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were inspired. Through the testimonies of those closest to him and the unpublished accounts in his wife’s diary, we get closer to this man surrounded by mystery. We discover his world and his story, marked by hope and disillusionment, by death and, of course, by love. Luigi Ughetto and his brothers leave behind their village of Ughettera, the land of the Ughetto family in their native Piedmont, to discover “La Merica”, that fab ulous land where dollars grow on trees. Instead of America, it is in Provence that Luigi will set down his bundle. His story is that of hundreds of thousands of Italians who left their homeland to settle in France, Switzerland, Belgium and everywhere else.
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YUKU AND THE FLOWER OF YUKUHIMALAYASTHEETLAFLEURDEL’HIMALAYAdirectedby Rémi Durin, Arnaud Demuynck
SCREENINGSKIDS:LOCARNOAnimationAnimation16 BELGIUM / FRANCE / SWITZERLANDAnimation,65 min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: PRODUCTION:SCREENPLAY:FrenchArnaudDemuynckArtemisProductions, Brussels / Les Films du Nord, Roubaix / La Boîte, Productions, Brussels / Vivement Lundi!, Rennes / Nadasdy Film, Geneva WORLD SALES: New Europe Film Sales, PRODUCTION:ORIGINALANIMATIONSWITZERLANDWORLDwww.neweuropefilmsales.comWarsawPREMIERE:Annecy2022Animation,7min.,2022TECHNIQUE:2DComputeranimation,cutoutanimationLANGUAGE:WithoutdialogueLouiseProductionsLausanne,Lausanne/RTSWORLDRIGHTS:LouiseProductionsLausanne,Lausannewww.louiseproductions.chWORLDPREMIERE:Clermont-Ferrand2022
Yuku lives with her family in the basement of a castle. Yuku’s grandmother, a storyteller, tells her stories by the light of a Himalayan flower, which guarantees her longevity. Following an accident, the flower is crushed! The old lady asks Yuku to take over the storytelling. But to become the new storyteller of the family, Yuku has to find a new Himalayan flower, her Omarown.isa big, soft-bodied circus freak with crab claws for arms. He has always been exploited by Monsieur Jules, a despotic circus director, and has long since resigned himself to his sad fate. But the arrival of Pincette, a mermaid tightrope walker, turns his life upside down, bringing out new feelings in him. Because Omar loves Pincette and Pincette has a crush on him.
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Picture: The Written Face by Daniel Schmid, 1995. Cinémathèque suisse Collection. All rights reserved. presentsinsuisseCinémathèqueLocarno2 restored films
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In 2011 the young Swiss couple Daniela Widmer and David Och is kidnapped on their journey along the old Silk Road in Pakistan. They’re taken 500 kilometres to warlike Waziristan and handed over to the local Taliban. The two of them live under the most precarious conditions for eight months in hostage, until they finally succeed in escaping from the Taliban, as the only civilians so far. In a remote Alpine village isolated from the outside world, young love is put to the test. Anna comes from the village and has a daughter from a previous relationship, while Marco is an outsider from the flatlands hired by the mountain farmers. Together they experience the joy of new love. But when Marco starts losing control over his impulses and behaving erratically, a new tension arises in the community.
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SUISSEPANORAMAFictionFiction18 SWITZERLAND / GERMANY Fiction, 115 min., 2021 ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: English, CAST:SCREENPLAY:Swiss-GermanUrsBühler,DanielYoungMorganeFerru,SvenSchelkerPRODUCTION:ZodiacPicturesLtd,Zurich / MMC Zodiac GmbH, Cologne / SRF / SRG SSR / blue+ WORLD SALES: The Playmaker, WORLDWORLDPRODUCTION:CAST:ORIGINALSWITZERLANDWORLDwww.playmaker.deMunichPREMIERE:ZurichFilmFestival2021/GERMANYFiction,136min.,2022LANGUAGE:Swiss-GermanMichèleBrand,SimonWislerhugofilmfeaturesGmbH,Zurich/PandoraFilmProduktion,Cologne/SRF/SRGSSR/ARTESALES:NewEuropeFilmSales,Warsawwww.neweuropefilmsales.comPREMIERE:Berlinale2022 ANDBEWETOMORROWWILLDEAD
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In the heat of the summer, two watchmen secure the river that runs through a neighbour hood in Lausanne. Ammar is new to the job, and Daniel shares his experience with him. During their rounds and encounters with the inhabitants, they observe and are observed, while bonds are being formed. And the question arises: what could have happened by the river? A promising Italian cartoonist lands in Buenos Aires in 1950, with the dream of reaching the United States. Argentina is at the dawn of its most raving decade and the young immigrant feels that all the promises of this country are for him to grasp. His name will indeed make itself known: Hugo Pratt.
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19DocumentaryPANORAMASUISSE SWITZERLANDDocufiction,106 min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: French, Portuguese, Spanish, CAST:ArabicAmmar Abdulkareem Khalaf, Daniel Nkubu, Elie Autin, Juliette PRODUCTION:UzorAlvaFilmProduction, Geneva WORLDFilmotorSALES:S.R.O., WORLDWORLDPRODUCTION:ORIGINALSWITZERLANDWORLDwww.filmotor.comPraguePREMIERE:VisionsduRéelNyon2022Documentary,95min.,2021LANGUAGES:French,SpanishFiumiFilm,Promontogno/RSIRIGHTS:FiumiFilm,Promontognowww.fiumifilm.chPREMIERE:GiornatedegliAutoriVenice2021
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SUISSEPANORAMADocumentaryDocumentary20 SWITZERLAND / GERMANY Documentary, 83 min., 2022 ORIGINAL PRODUCTION:German,LANGUAGES:English,FrenchEnsembleFilmGmbH,Zurich / Lichtblick Film- und Fernseh produktion, Cologne / ZDF/ARTE / RSI / SRF WORLDAutlookSALES:Filmsales, PRODUCTION:ORIGINALSWITZERLANDWORLDwww.autlookfilms.comViennaPREMIERE:SolothurnerFilmtage2022Documentary,81min.,2021LANGUAGES:English,Arabic,BerberlanguagesfreihändlerFilmproduktionGmbH,Basel/ZurichUni-versityoftheArtsZHdK/SRFWORLDRIGHTS:freihändlerFilmproduktionGmbH,Baselwww.freihaendler.chWORLDPREMIERE: Zurich Film Festival 2021 COMEHIGHSMITHLOVINGwritten&directedbyEvaVitijaLOVEWILLLATERwritten&directedbyJuliaFurer
Based on Patricia Highsmith’s per sonal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer’s life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity. Inside Marrakech’s bustling Medina, Samir is looking for love and a brighter future. His summer flings all come to a bitter end at the airport and he is left behind in a country with limited possibilities. When Samir really falls in love, he is faced with a major decision: Should he listen to his sisters and agree to an arranged marriage in Morocco? Or should he follow his love and his dream of a brighter future in Europe?
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21FictionDocumentaryPANORAMASUISSESWITZERLAND / GERMANY Documentary, 81 min., 2022 ORIGINAL WORLDPRODUCTION:German,LANGUAGES:English,FrenchBeauvoirFilms,Geneva/LichtblickFilm,Cologne/EnsembleFilm,Zurich/ZDF/ARTE/SRF/RTSWORLDSALES:MagnetfilmGmbH,Berlinwww.magnetfilm.deNATIONALPREMIERE:MaxOphülsPreisSaarbrücken2022INTERNATIONALPREMIERE:HotdocsToronto2022MOREINFORMATION:www.artofsilence-film.comSWITZERLAND/FRANCEFiction,85min.,2021ORIGINALLANGUAGE:FrenchSCREENPLAY:ElieGrappe,RaphaëlleDesplechinCAST:AnastasiaBudiashkina,CaterinaBarloggioPRODUCTION:PointProductions,Geneva/CinémaDefacto,Paris/RTS/Canal+WORLDSALES:PulsarContent,Pariswww.pulsarcontent.comPREMIERE:Cannes2021THE ART MauriziuswrittenL’ARTSILENCEOFDUSILENCE&directedbyStaerkleDruxOLGAdirectedbyElieGrappe
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With his gestures and facial expressions alone, the mime Marcel Marceau captured audiences around the globe for decades. But the tragic background behind his work has remained hidden for a long time. The film sheds new light on his life and unique art form, which his family and companions keep alive to this day. Exiled in Switzerland, Olga, 15, is a talented Ukrainian gymnast. Like all athletes at the top of their game, she dreams of Olympic gold. She tries her best to fit into her new national team but, as the European Championship draws near, the revolution in Kiev shakes her world and tests her will.
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Wanjaworse.doesn’t give a damn about the trend of self-realization, until the algorithm also assigns her a perfectly fitting dream job. The newfound privileges and recogni tion at work feel good, but will they really make her happier than sniffing glue? She soon misses her wacky childhood friends, and begins to understand that the teenagers have something the adults have lost: community.
On a film set, there are always unforeseen events. Some days, it’s all there is. And sometimes it’s even
SUISSEPANORAMASHORTSSUISSEPANORAMA22FictionFiction SWITZERLANDFiction,6min., 2022 ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: French, SCREENPLAY:EnglishNaomiCahen,Benoît Monney CAST:Piera Bellato, Barbara Tobola, Sean Biggerstaff, Roland Vouilloz, François Nadin, Antonin PRODUCTION:SchopferBadTastePictures, Lausanne WORLDPremiumSALES:Films, PRODUCTION:CAST:SCREENPLAY:ORIGINALSWITZERLANDWORLDwww.premium-films.comParisPREMIERE:SolothurnerFilmtage2022/GERMANYFiction,85min.,2021LANGUAGE:GermanMarisaMeier,DennisStormerLiavonBlarer,JürgPlüss,LouHaltinner,ElsaLangnäsetellfilmGmbH,Zurich/IntuitionClub,Schönkirchen/SehsternFilmproduktion,FrankfurtamMainWORLDRIGHTS:tellfilmGmbH,Zurichwww.tellfilm.chWORLDPREMIERE:ZurichFilmFestival2021 directeddirectedACTIONbyBenoîtMonneyYOUTHTOPIAbyDennisStormer
23FictionAnidocPANORAMASUISSESHORTSSWITZERLANDAnidoc,5min., 2021 ANIMATION TECHNIQUE: 2D Computer animation ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: French, SCREENPLAY:ItalianMarcelBarelli, Fleur Daugey PRODUCTION:NadasdyFilm, Geneva / RSI WORLD SALES: SND Films, CAST:ORIGINALSWITZERLANDWORLDwww.sndfilms.comAmsterdamPREMIERE:ShortShortsFilmFestival&AsiaTokyo2021Fiction,38min.,2020LANGUAGE:KirghizAlinaTurdumamatova,NurbekEsengazyUuluPRODUCTION:FilmgerbereiGmbH,ZurichWORLDSALES:SalaudMorisset,Berlinwww.salaudmorisset.comFESTIVALDISTRIBUTION:FilmgerbereiGmbH,Zurichwww.filmgerberei.chWORLDPREMIERE:RhodeIslandInternationalFilmFestival2020 ALA KACHUU –TAKE AND RUN written & directed by Maria Nineteen-year-oldBrendleSezim wants to fulfil her dream of studying in the Kyrgyz capital when she is kidnapped by a group of young men and taken to the hinterland where she’s forced to marry. Torn between her desire for freedom and the constraints of Kyrgyz culture, Sezim desperately seeks a way out. Academy Awards ® Nomination Best Live Action Short 2022 In nature, a couple is a male and a female. Well, not always! A couple is also a female and a female. Or a male and a male. You may not be aware of it, but homosexuality isn’t just a human story. IN directedDANSNATURELANATUREbyMarcelBarelli YCCANIDOCANIDOOMEDYCOMEDQUEERCINEMA
FictionAnimation24 SWITZERLANDAnimation,4min., 2021 ANIMATION TECHNIQUE: 2D Computer animation ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Without PRODUCTION:dialogueLucerneSchoolof Art and Design (HSLU) / SRF WORLDLucerneRIGHTS:School of Art and Design (HSLU) BA WORLDFESTIVALWORLDPRODUCTION:CAST:ORIGINALSWITZERLANDWORLDwww.hslu.ch/en/animationanimation@hslu.chAnimationPREMIERE:Fantoche2021Fiction,12min.,2021LANGUAGE:Swiss-GermanSofiaElenaBorsaniLangfilm–BernardLangAG,Freienstein/SRFSALES:KurzfilmAgenturHamburgwww.shortfilm.comDISTRIBUTION:KapiteinKort,Amsterdamkapiteinkort.nlPREMIERE:Cannes2021 ON oneverydayunderthequicklyofSummertimewrittenGROUNDSOLIDÜBERWASSER&directedbyJelaHaslerinacity.Thecoolnessamorningswimintherivervanishesastheheatcoverscitylikeamagnifyingglasswhichsupposedlytrivialnuisancessuddenlytakeweight.Elitriestoescapethenarrownessandagitationofthecity,yetkeepsonfacingaggression.Andherragestartstobuildup.SAUNAwritten&directedbyAnnaLenaSpring,LaraPerrenAvaentersthesaunaforthefirsttime.Sheisoverwhelmedbythenudity,herthoughts,andthephysicalsensations.Theotherguestsgoabouttheirroutines.WiththerisingheatAvastartstorelax.Finally,shemeltsawayanddissolvesintocompleteecstasy.SHORTSSUISSEPANORAMA CFTSTUDENTSTUDENANTASTICFANTASTI
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YONA ROZENKIER * 1981 in Israel. Yona Rozenkier is an
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Ben arrives at his native Kibbutz and plans to ask his distant father Albert to help him recover a family apartment looted in WWII. But Albert has other plans … Completely drunk, he has bet that he could cross the country from north to south on a tractor in less than a week. At a maximum speed of thirty-five kilometres per hour, father and son will finally get to know and love each Michel
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Ingeborg(1981).Bachmann is one of the most important poets in German literature, while the works of the Swiss writer Max Frisch have become classics. When they met in 1958, they fell head over heels in love, became the most famous couple in the German literary world … and began an explosive relationship. Years later, Bachmann still cannot shake off the memory of this passionate but difficult time. The Match Factory GmbH, www.the-match-factory.comCologne
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MARGARETHE VON TROTTA * 1942 in Germany. Margarethe von Trotta is a director, screenwriter and as actress was a master of impressive female roles in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff. From the end of the 1970s she advanced to become one of the most renowned directors in Germany. Her best-known films include ROSENSTRASSE (2003) and HANNAH ARENDT (2012). She was the first female film maker ever to be awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for MARIANNE & JULIANE
WORLDBeauvoirRIGHTS:Films, www.beauvoirfilms.chGeneva
SWITZERLAND / FRANCE Fiction, 90 min. Original Screenplay:Frenchlanguage:JoanneGiger,Hugues Hariche Cast:Flavie Delangle, Sarah Bramms, Camille Rutherford Production:Beauvoir Films, Geneva / Les Films d’Argile, Cluny / RTS SwissAlineProducers:Schmid,Adrian Blaser Fiction
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HUGUES HARICHE * 1971 in France. Hugues Hariche is a writer and director with joint French and Swiss nationality. His short films METROPOLIS (2015) and FLOW (2012) were selected and awarded in several inter national festivals. He was a resident at the Premiers Plans workshop in Angers and at the Berlinale Talent Campus. His first feature-length film BREAKAWAY is presently in post-production. After running away, trying to find her father, who remains untraceable, seventeen-year-old Manon manages to break free from this familial tie. She starts afresh in an unexpected way, reconnecting with her dream of becoming a professional hockey
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SWISS PRODUCERS: Ivan Geisser, Timothy Ross, Alexander Stratigenas, Javier Krause WORLD SALES: Begin Again Films, www.beginagainfilms.esMadrid SWITZERLAND / SPAIN Fiction, 88 min. ORIGINAL
JOAN-MARC ZAPATA * 1989 in Spain. Joan-Marc Zapata graduated from the University of Girona with a Bachelor in Advertising and Public Relations in 2012 and in 2013 with a Master in film directing from the Bande a Part school in Barcelona. Since 2011 he has directed multiple short films which have been awarded around the world. COLOR OF HEAVEN (2022) is his first featurelength Tristánfilm. Del Val and Olivia Bronte meet again by chance in a hotel seventeen years later. At a young age, the philosopher had succumbed to the charm of the celebrated actress. For seventeen years, the memories of their love romance, broken by her ambitious career plans, had prevailed. A profound dialogue unfolds between the two – an unembellished confrontation about success, loss, happiness and love.
SCREENPLAY:Spanish,LANGUAGES:EnglishJoan-MarcZapata,LluísVanEeckhoutCAST:MartaEtura,FrancescGarrido,CarlosLeal,DanielRohr,PetraZurfluh,PhilippeSchuler,PinoMontesdeocaPRODUCTION:89ProductionsGmbH,Brunnen/ArnoldFilmsSL,CaldesdeMontbui/OrisonoGmbH,Lucerne Fiction 1EDETCEPXEEXPECTEDFALL20221STFEATURSTFEATURE
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BARBARA KULCSAR * 1971. Barbara Kulcsar studied acting in Budapest and sociology and film studies at the University of Zurich. She went on to study film at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Her graduation film BLUSH (1999) won several awards and her feature film debut THE TWO OF US (2010) was awarded the Zurich Film Prize. In 2017 she received the Television Film Award of the German Academy of Performing Arts for her TV feature film TORN. She lives in Zurich and works in Switzerland and Germany. Newly retired, Alice and her husband Peter are ready to finally enjoy their life as pensioners. But their pent-up marital problems bubble to the surface on a cruise trip through the Mediterranean. The spouses end up going on separate journeys of self-discovery, both finding unexpected ways of how to spend their golden years.
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Fiction WORLD SALES: Beta Cinema, www.betacinema.comOberhaching SWITZERLAND / GERMANY Fiction, 92 min. ORIGINAL CAST:SCREENPLAY:Swiss-GermanLANGUAGE:PetraVolpeEstherGemsch,Stefan Kurt, Ueli Jäggi, Gundi Ellert, André Jung, Teresa Harder PRODUCTION:ZodiacPictures Ltd, Zurich / Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion GmbH, Munich / SRF / SRG SSR / ZDF / blue+ SWISS PRODUCERS: Reto Schaerli, Lukas Hobi
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Alone in the mountains of Switzerland, Anne discovers that her isolated chalet is under surveillance and has been bugged. Caught up by her former life as an intelligence secret agent and an affair with her handler, Anne can only count on herself to get out alive. A paranoia espionage thriller centred around the iconic duo of Asia Argento and Jeanne Balibar.
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JÉRÔME DASSIER * 1964. Jérôme Dassier started out as a first assistant director with Agnès Varda, Jerzy Skolimowski, Christopher Doyle and Barbet Schroeder. He lived in Warsaw for seven years, where he directed his first feature film LIMOUSINE (2009), with Christopher Lambert and Agnieszka Grochowska. He now works in Paris as a screenwriter and director.
LET HER KILL YOU (2022) is his second featurelength film. Fiction, 92 LANGUAGES: French, SCREENPLAY:EnglishJérômeDassier, Argento, Jeanne Balibar, Joe PRODUCTION:RezwinVegaFilm,Zurich Sombrero Paris / Ruth Waldburger
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JOHANNES HARTMANN * 1985. Johannes Hartmann produces, directs and edits music videos, short films and commercials since 2007. In 2010 he cofounded the Decoy Collective and in 2019 Swissploitation Films.
In a dystopian Switzerland that has fallen under the fascist rule of a cheese magnate, Heidi lives as a simple young woman in the Alps. Grandfather Alpöhi does his best to protect his granddaughter from the dictatorship, but soon her yearning for freedom causes all hell to break loose. The naive girl must transform into a fierce fighter before setting out to liberate the country from the cheese fascists. An action-adventure spoof based on the popular children’s book character Heidi.
MAD HEIDI directed by Johannes Hartmann, Sandro Klopfstein
WORLDSwissploitationRIGHTS: Films, MOREwww.swissploitation.comZurichINFORMATION:www.madheidi.com CAST:SCREENPLAY:ORIGINALSWITZERLANDFiction,90min.LANGUAGE:EnglishSandroKlopfstein,JohannesHartmann,GregoryWidmer,TrentHaagaAliceLucy,MaxRüdlinger,CasperVanDien,DavidSchofield,PascalUlli,KatjaKolm,KasparWeissPRODUCTION:SwissploitationFilms,Zurich / A Film Company, Zurich PRODUCER:ValentinGreutertFiction DETCEPXEEXPECTEDFALL2022
SANDRO KLOPFSTEIN * 1981. Sandro Klopfstein is a director of music videos and commercials. He also collaborates on films in various positions. In 2010 he cofounded Decoy Films. MAD HEIDI is currently in post-production.
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LUC WALPOTH * 1981. Luc Walpoth is a Swiss film director working both in Europe and the USA. His work has been nominated and awarded at major festivals including Palm Springs, Fantasia, Locarno, Sitges, Clermont-Ferrand, and many more. Over the years he has developed projects supported by renowned institutions such as Tribeca Institute, Californian Art Concil, UCLA TFT school, Torino FilmLab and NisiMasa. His films have been broadcasts all around the world. When Maria, a Mexican immigrant, becomes pregnant, she keeps silent, fearing that her husband Giorgio, who thinks he’s sterile, will suspect her of infidelity. This silence divides the couple. Between doubts and desires, each of them seeks the tenderness they can’t obtain from their partner in a stranger. Fascinated by these new acquaintances, their sentimental drifts lead them to the periphery of love, where only trust can prevent them from getting lost.
WORLDFilmproduktionDschointRIGHTS:VentschrAG, Zurich www.dvfilm.ch SWITZERLAND / ITALY Fiction, 90 min. ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: CAST:ItalianIazuaLarios, Fabio Troiano, Christina Rosamilia, Alessio Lapice, Ursina Lardi, Bruno PRODUCTION:TodeschiniDschointVentschrFilmproduktionAG, Zurich / CDV Casa delle Visioni, Milan SWISSSereinaPRODUCER:Gabathuler
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directedRETREATbyLeonSchwitter Filmkollektiv GmbH,
Fiction WORLD RIGHTS: EXIT
www.exit.istZurich SWITZERLANDFiction,82min.ORIGINALLANGUAGE:Swiss-GermanSCREENPLAY:LeonSchwitter,MichaelKarrerCAST:PeterHottinger,DorianHeinigerPRODUCTION:EXITFilmkollektivGmbH,Zurich/SabotageFilmkollektivGmbH,ZurichPRODUCERS:CarolineHepting,MichaelKarrer,ReaTelevantos,LeonSchwitter 1EDETCEPXEEXPECTEDFALL20221STFEATURSTFEATURE
LEON SCHWITTER * 1994. Leon Schwitter graduated with a Bachelor’s degree, focus on screenwriting from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). In 2019 he cofounded the EXIT Filmkollektiv with four other filmmakers, where he works as a producer and director.
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RETREAT is his feature film debut and the collective’s first feature film project. On a holiday in the mountains, an estranged father and son get to know each other better. Sheltered by the rocky landscape, Michael believes that he and his son are safe from the outside world, which is crumbling under the impact of environmental destruction and economic crises.
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ANDREAS MÜLLER * 1975. Andreas Müller graduated in Film from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He works as director and writer. JOSHUA (2002) was recipient of numerous international prizes.
PRODUCTION:SCREENPLAY:GermanSwiss-German,AndreasMüller,SimonGuyFässler,MarcelBächtigersoapfactoryGmbH,Basel/8horsesGmbH,Zurich/SRF/SRGSSRPRODUCERS:FrankMatter,SimonGuyFässler DETCEPXEEXPECTEDFALL2022
directed by Andreas Müller, Simon Guy Fässler
Invited by a mysterious friend, two filmmakers set out on a journey through a Yenish Europe that stretches from dusty banlieus in France to the forests of Carinthia. Told by the voices of young and old Travellers, a kaleidoscopic panorama of their lives unfolds. Diverse people relate to each other, bound together by their love of freedom but also by deep wounds from the past.
WORLD RIGHTS: soap factory GmbH, www.8horses.ch8horseswww.soapfactory.chBaselGmbH,ZurichSWITZERLANDDocumentary, 120 min. ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: French,
SIMON GUY FÄSSLER * 1977. Simon Guy Fässler has a degree in Visual Communi cations from University of Fine Arts Hamburg. He works as cameraman and filmmaker. In 2017 he won the Swiss Film Award “Best Cinematography” for ALOYS by Tobias Nölle.
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FISNIK MAXVILLE * 1989 in Kosovo. Fisnik Maxville was a refugee in Switzerland until 2005. He studied Film at ECAL / HEAD, completing his studies with a Master’s degree. His first film LOST EXILE (2016) premiered in Locarno and won a jury award. He wrote and directed THE VALLEY OF HAPPINESS (2017), ZVICRA (2018) and ENDGAME (2020). NOSTROMO (2021) was his first film shot in North America. He is currently working on several feature films, among them COTTON HANDS and ANIMA. After years of exile, Remo returns to his childhood village in the Balkans. He must help his adoptive cousin, Una, with the exhumation of a mass grave that contains most of their family members buried there during the war. But the bodies reveal family secrets that will make Remo and Una question their past and their future. A film about the possibility of truth in a place that only knows survival.
SWITZERLAND / KOSOVO Fiction, 108 min. ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: French, Albanian, English CAST:Luàna Bajrami, Florist Bajgora, Luan Jaha, Arta Musa, Irena Aliu PRODUCTION:AlvaFilmProduction, Geneva / Ikonë Studio, Pristina / RTS SWISSThomasBrittaPRODUCERS:Rindelaub,Reichlin
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THEWITHINLAND written & directed by Fisnik Maxville Fiction RIGHTS: Alva Film Production, Geneva www.alvafilm.ch
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ANNA LUIF * 1972. Anna Luif completed her Film Studies at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 1998. She works as a freelance screenwriter and director. Since 2004 she works as a lecturer at the ZHdK. Her short film SUMMERTIME (2000) won more than twenty international prizes. She then directed the feature films LITTLE GIRL BLUE, released in cinemas in 2003 after a large festival success, followed by MADLY IN LOVE
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Thirty-eight-year(2010). old Liv Sàndor, following an argument with her boyfriend, sets off to wander the city, observing passers-by and reminiscing about her past loves. In all her relationships, there was a point in time, when things went pear shaped. As she walks the streets, Liv faces her fears, joys and demons and finally sets herself free. A colourful exploration into female affections. A humourous deconstruction of love today. WORLDBeauvoirRIGHTS:Films, www.beauvoirfilms.chGeneva
CAST:SCREENPLAY:ORIGINALSWITZERLANDFiction,85min.LANGUAGE:FrenchAnnaLuif,MarieFourquetAgnèsDelachair,AntoninSchopfer,MarieFontannaz,Jean-ChristopheFolly,BaptisteGilliéron,DimitriStapfer,RémiFortinPRODUCTION:BeauvoirFilms,Geneva/SRF/blue+PRODUCERS:AlineSchmid,AdrianBlaser
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The pleasant evening becomes the final touchstone of their once undying love when the neighbours bring not only an exotic specialty but also a spicy offering to the S. G. Giger
THEaperitif.NEIGHBOURSFROMUPSTAIRSdirectedbySabineBoss Fiction WORLDFilmaxSALES:International Sales, filmaxinternationalsales.comBarcelona CAST:SCREENPLAY:ORIGINALSWITZERLANDFiction,85min.LANGUAGE:Swiss-GermanAlexanderSeibtRoelandWiesnekker,UrsinaLardi,SarahSpale,MaxSimonischekPRODUCTION:EliteFilmproduktionAG,Zurich / SRF / SRG SSR / blue+ PRODUCERS:RogerKaufmann, Ralph
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SABINE BOSS * 1966. Sabine Boss is the head of the film departement of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and works as director and screenwriter for film, TV and theatre. She has directed numerous fictions films such as the Swiss boxoffice success I’M THE KEEPER (2014) for which she received four Swiss Film Awards, among them the Award for Best Fiction Film and Best Screenplay.
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modest man. He dreams of a better life. Like many others, he has mounted his motorbike, dreaming of making his fortune in the vast and unforgiving Sahara desert. In the Awzagar mine, Bala and his comrades dig and break rocks all day long in the hope of finding gold. Battered by wind and dust, confronted with death, the miners are united in their quest. Films,SWITZERLANDDocumentary, 80 min.
www.closeupfilms.chGeneva
LA VERS LE NORD THE written & directed by Karim Sayad KARIM SAYAD * 1984. Karim Sayad has both Swiss and Algerian citizenship. After earning a Master’s degree in International Relations from Geneva’s IHEID, he directed his first short documentary film, BABOR CASANOVA (2015). It was awarded at doclisboa, Festival dei Popoli and at ClermontFerrand ISFF among others. His first feature-length film OF SHEEP AND MEN (2017) premiered within TIFF DOCS and won the Prix de Soleure 2018. MY ENGLISH COUSIN (2019) also premiered in TIFF
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FOUDRE CARMEN JAQUIER * 1985. Carmen Jaquier is a director and screenwriter. She studied film and screen writing at École cantonale d’art de Lausanne and Geneva University of Art and Design (ECAL / HEAD – Genève). Her diploma film THE GIRLS’ GRAVE (2012) won the Silver Pardino at the Locarno Film Festival. THUNDER is her first feature-length film. Summer 1900, in a valley in southern Switzerland. Elisabeth is seventeen years old and about to take her vows when the sudden death of her older sister forces her to leave the convent and return to the family farm she had left five years earlier. But Elisabeth is no longer a child. Stifled by the suffocating and strict rules of the village and obsessed by the mysteries surrounding her sister’s disappearance, she will fight for her right to
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CAST:ORIGINALSWITZERLANDFiction,90min.LANGUAGE:FrenchLilithGrasmug,LouIff, Diana Gervalla, Benjamin Python, Noah Watzlawick, Mermoz Melchior, Sabine Timoteo, François Revaclier, Léa Gigon, Marco PRODUCTION:CalamandreiCloseUpFilms,Geneva / RTS PRODUCERS:FlaviaZanon, Joëlle Bertossa
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SWISSPRODUCTION:CAST:MongolianLANGUAGE:UrtnasanErdenebayar,ErdenetsetsegEnkhbayar,SamdanpurevOyunsambuuChogsomFilm,Rapperswil/ChogsomFilm,UlaanbaatarPRODUCER:BatbayarChogsom Fiction DETCEPXEEXPECTEDWINTER2022/23
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BATBAYAR CHOGSOM * 1974 in Mongolia. Batbayar Chogsom is a Swiss director and scriptwriter of Mongolian origin. He graduated with a Bachelor in Social Science from the University of Zurich in 2012. His previous film OUT OF PARADISE (2018) was awarded the prize for Best Film at the Shanghai Interna tional Film Festival. Saran and Naran, two women in their early twenties, are trying to start a new life in the steppe as nomads. When the city detective Zorig questions the two about a missing man, he is also confronted with their homosexual relationship, which is an absolute taboo in Mongolia.
WORLDChogsomRIGHTS:Film, bchogsom@gmail.comRapperswil / MONGOLIA Fiction, 90 min. ORIGINAL
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