SWISS FILMS Previews Locarno 2023

SWISS FILMS PREVIEWS

LOCARNO 2023

SWISS FILMS PREVIEWS

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2023

PREVIEWS BISONS

LIFE-SIZE PAULINE

LES PARADIS DE DIANE

LAST PARTY JACOB’S HORSE (WORKING TITLE)

SUPPORT MEASURES

NOTES

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LAURA DANIEL Consultant Film, Talent & Awards

SWISS FILMS TEAM

MARCEL MÜLLER Consultant Film, Programmes & VOD mmueller@swissfilms.ch

ANDREAS BÜHLMANN Head of Festivals & Markets

EXPECTED

WINTER 2023/24

DETCEPXE

BISONS

directed by Pierre Monnard

A young Swiss wrestling champion is dragged by his brother into a series of clandestine fights to raise money to save the family farm.

WORLD RIGHTS:

P.S. Productions, Châtel-St-Denis www.ps-productions.ch

LOOKING FOR:

World Sales Distributors

Int. Festival Premiere

CONTACT:

Xavier Grin

P.S. Productions

xavier.grin@ps-productions.ch

SWITZERLAND / FRANCE Fiction, 107 min.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE:

French

SCREENPLAY:

Patrick Delachaux, Emmanuelle Fournier-Lorentz, Dominique Turin, Nicolas Hislaire

CAST:

Maxime Valvini, Karim Barras, India Hair, Marie Berto, Adel Bencherif

PRODUCTION:

P.S. Productions, ChâtelSt-Denis / Les Contes Modernes, Bourg-lès-Valence / RTS / SRG SSR

SWISS PRODUCER: Xavier Grin

PIERRE MONNARD

* 1976. After a series of successful short films, including SWAPPED winner of the 2003 Swiss Film Award – Best Short Film, Pierre Monnard made his feature debut with RECYCLING LILY (2013). He then directed awardwinning TV series such as WILDER, NEUMATT and OFF SEASON. His feature-length NEEDLE PARK BABY (2020) became one of the great successes of Swiss cinema and was voted Best Film of the Year by the Swiss Film Journalists. BISONS is currently in post-production.

PAULINE GRANDEUR NATURE

LIFE-SIZE PAULINE

written & directed by Nadège de Benoit Luthy

Pauline juggles life between her kids and her work as a landscape designer where she has to fight for her place amongst her male colleagues. Her life is turned upside-down when her mother tells her that she is going to live abroad and will no longer be able to take care of her children, then becomes chaotic when she is appointed manager of an important project. On all fronts, her life takes a turn for the worse. Will Pauline be able to bounce back, assert herself and find her place?

NADÈGE DE BENOIT-LUTHY

* 1977. Nadège de Benoit Luthy has a degree in Film from École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL). Her diploma film PETIT(S) CADAVRE(S) PERSONNEL (2003) was selected for the Locarno Film Festival.

MÉNAGERIE INTÉRIEURE (2007) was awarded the prize for Best Swiss Short Film at Locarno and SUMMER STORMS (2014) won the Best Screenplay Award at Evora’s Short Film Festival.

SWITZERLAND / BELGIUM

Fiction, 74 min.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE:

French

CAST:

Déborah François, Thibaut

Evrard, Jo Deseure, Baptiste Gilliéron, Sophie Breyer, Jean-Henri Compère

PRODUCTION:

Box Productions, Lausanne / Tarantula Belgique, Liège / RTS / RTBF / Proximus, Brussels

SWISS PRODUCER: Elena Tatti

FALL 2023

WORLD RIGHTS:

Box Productions, Lausanne www.boxproductions.ch

LOOKING FOR:

World Sales Distributors

Int. Festival Premiere

CONTACT: Elena Tatti

Box Productions

elena.tatti@boxproductions.ch

EXPECTED

WINTER 2023/24

DETCEPXE

LES PARADIS DE DIANE

directed by Carmen Jaquier, Jan Gassmann

A woman tries to lose herself in an unknown city, but her body reawakens her memories and what she is fleeing from.

WORLD RIGHTS:

2:1 Film GmbH, Zurich

www.2zu1film.com

SWITZERLAND

Fiction, 99 min.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES:

German, English, French, Spanish

SCREENPLAY:

Carmen Jaquier

CAST:

Dorothée de Koon, Aurore

Clément, Omar Ayuso, Roland Bonjour

PRODUCTION:

LOOKING FOR:

World Sales

Int. Festival Premiere

CONTACT:

Jan Gassmann

2:1 Film GmbH

jan.gassmann@2zu1film.com

2:1 Film GmbH, Zurich / RTS

PRODUCERS:

Jan Gassmann, Lisa Blatter

CARMEN JAQUIER

* 1985. She studied film and screenwriting at ECAL in Lausanne and at HEAD –Genève. Her diploma film THE GIRLS’ GRAVE (2012) won the Silver Pardino in Locarno. THUNDER her first feature premiered in Toronto in 2022.

JAN GASSMANN

* 1983. He studied film at HFF Munich. His first doc CHRIGU premiered at the Berlinale in 2007. It was followed by awardwinning features, among them EUROPE, SHE LOVES (2016), and 99 MOONS (2022) which premiered in ACID Cannes.

LAST PARTY

directed by Nicolas Dozol

During a graduation party, Angela, Alexander, Lily and Ethan, four teenagers in the midst of an existential crisis, are confronted with their angst. When the four of them find themselves locked up, they wonder if it might be their last night.

NICOLAS DOZOL

* 1998. Nicolas Dozol first studied dance at the Conservatoire de Lyon and then at the Rudra Béjart School in Lausanne. He then continued his studies in cinema at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français (CLCF) in Paris, graduating in 2020. He directed several short fiction films, documentaries and advertising films. He particularly works on giving shape to imaginary experiences, and to trying new ways of filming that leads the audience to reflect on and question the world.

FALL 2023

SWITZERLAND Fiction, 70 min.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: French

SCREENPLAY:

Chloé Vittenet, Nicolas Dozol, Paul Tomasini, Leah Ladoux

CAST:

Lucie Cecchi, Remi Gerard, Uma Condolo, Teddy Hardy

PRODUCER: Nicolas Dozol

PRODUCTION AND WORLD RIGHTS:

Lights Rush, Geneva www.lightsrush.com

LOOKING FOR: World Sales Distributors Int. Festival Premiere

CONTACT:

Nicolas Dozol

Lights Rush

lightsrushproductions@ gmail.com

EXPECTED

2023/24

JACOB’S HORSE

(working title) directed by Katalin Gödrös

A modern relationship and emancipation story set in nineteenth century Alpine Switzerland: The musically highly gifted maid Elsie, who longs for a career as a musician, is forced into marriage with Jacob, a young stable boy who dreams of owning his own horse. Both have to learn that they can only escape their lack of opportunities if they team up.

WORLD RIGHTS:

Turnus Film AG, Zurich www.turnusfilm.com

LOOKING FOR:

World Sales Distributors

Int. Festival Premiere

CONTACT:

Anita Wasser

Turnus Film

wasser@turnusfilm.com

SWITZERLAND / LUXEMBOURG Fiction, 120 min.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Swiss-German SCREENPLAY: Urs Bühler

CAST:

Luna Wedler, Valentin Postlmayr, Eugénie Anselin, Max Hubacher, Luc Feit

PRODUCTION:

Turnus Film AG, Zurich / AMOUR FOU Luxembourg, Ettelbruck / SRF / blue+

SWISS PRODUCERS: Anita Wasser, Michael Steiger

KATALIN GÖDRÖS

* 1969. Katalin Gödrös is a screenwriter and director. She studied at the Budapest Film Academy. Her film MUTANTEN (2002) premiered at the Berlinale. SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE (2010) screened in Locarno’s competition. Recent works include TV series such as THE UNDERTAKER (2015 –2017) for Swiss national TV /Netflix. Since 2008 she is lecturer at various film schools, and since 2021 professor for directing at Internationale Filmschule in Cologne.

JAKOBS ROSS

DISTRIBUTION SUPPORT

Supporting the theatrical release and distribution via online platforms of Swiss films worldwide.

Its aim is to strengthen the visibility and the distribution of Swiss films abroad. The subsidies are granted according to the “Guidelines Export Promotion” of the FOC.

KEY INCENTIVES

– Funding for releases worldwide

– Funding for cinema and / or VOD releases

– No fixed submission deadlines

A support measure by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (FOC), administrated by SWISS FILMS. www.bak.admin.ch

Contact : support@swissfilms.ch

Applications must be submitted by the distributor via the Swiss producer.

FILM SALES SUPPORT

for films from Switzerland

A scheme by the European Film Promotion (EFP) for the promotion of European films outside of Europe.

EFP offers Film Sales Support (FSS) for the promotion of films from Switzerland outside of Europe thanks to international measures by the Federal Office of Culture, MEDIA Desk Suisse and SWISS FILMS.

FSS is available for:

FSS Classic

FSS Digital

FSS Digital Plus

FSS Inclusion

Contact: support@swissfilms.ch

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