SWISS FILMS BOOKLET Locarno 2015

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in Locarno 2015 SWISS FILMS Desk at Piazza Grande Lounge Friday – Monday, August 7 – 10, 10 – 16h info@swissfilms.ch I T + 41 77 467 69 62

Swiss films screened in Locarno 2015 Catherine Ann Berger Managing Director caberger@swissfilms.ch T +41 76 368 02 65

Selina Willemse Head of Festivals & Markets swillemse@swissfilms.ch T +41 79 286 51 88 Aida Suljicic Head of Programmes & Festival Advisor asuljicic@swissfilms.ch T +41 77 431 87 79

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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Upcoming Swiss films Peter Da Rin Manager Festivals & Markets pdarin@swissfilms.ch T +41 77 467 69 62 Sylvain Vaucher Short films svaucher@swissfilms.ch T +41 79 542 83 80

New Swiss shorts

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Transmedia projects

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Swiss features coming soon

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Please verify screening schedule with official schedule

Thursday

06.08

Friday

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Saturday

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Sunday

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Monday

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SWISS FILMS SCREENED IN LOC ARNO 2015

Vecchi Pazzi Keeper Keeper Horizontes Black Cloud Pardi di domani "Program 1" Pardi di domani "Program 1" Dora Or The Sexual Neuroses Of Our Parents Keeper Le Bois dont les rêves sont faits Keeper The Day The Sun Fell Above and Below Heimatland About Heaven Pardi di domani "Program 1" Erlking Le Bois dont les rêves sont faits Vergine Giurata Keeper Heimatland About Heaven Amnesia Wild Women - Gentle Beasts Pardi di domani "Program 2" The Day The Sun Fell

Industry Screenings for Industry Accreditations only Press Screenings also for Industry- and Professional Accreditations 3

Sabine Boss Guillaume Senez Guillaume Senez Eileen Hofer Basil Da Cunha several several Stina Werenfels

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Guillaume Senez Claire Simon Guillaume Senez Aya Domenig Nicolas Steiner several Stéphane Goël several Georges Schwizgebel Claire Simon Laura Bispuri Guillaume Senez several Stéphane Goël Barbet Schroeder Anka Schmid several Aya Domenig

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SWISS FILMS SCREENED IN LOC ARNO 2015

Tuesday

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Thursday

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Le Bois dont les rêves sont faits La Vanité Heimatland In The Shadow Of Women Erlking Heimatland Pardi di domani "Program 2" Wintergast Amnesia Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared YES NO MAYBE Le Bois dont les rêves sont faits Heimatland La Vanité Pardi di domani "Program 2" Amnesia YES NO MAYBE Cyclic Air-Mail La Vanité Grozny Blues Un dia y nada (short) Cherry Pie Chrieg

Claire Simon Lionel Baier several Philippe Garrel Georges Schwizgebel several several Andy Herzog, Matthias Günter Barbet Schroeder Stefan Schwietert Kaspar Kasics Claire Simon several Lionel Baier several Barbet Schroeder Kaspar Kasics Frédéric Favre Isabelle Favez Lionel Baier Nicola Bellucci Lorenz Merz Lorenz Merz Simon Jaquemet

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Industry Screenings for Industry Accreditations only Press Screenings also for Industry- and Professional Accreditations

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CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE

Heimatland

Switzerland / Germany Fiction, 2015, 99 min.

Original languages: German/French World premiere Cast: Peter Jecklin / Michèle Schaub-Jackson Liana Hangartner / Nicolas Bachmann Morgane Ferru / Viola von Scarpatetti Dashmir Ristemi / Julia Glaus Florin Schmidig / Egon Betschart Roberto Garieri / Issaka Sawadogo Production: Contrast Film Bern GmbH, Bern 2:1 Film GmbH, Zurich Passanten Filmproduktion GbR, Munich World Sales: Wide, Paris T +33 1 53 95 04 64 www.widemanagement.com

A hurricane of catastrophic proportions is brewing over Switzerland. The last three days of the country are imminent. A state of emergency begins. Ten directors of a new generation of filmmakers tell how differently people in Switzerland cope with the worst imaginable disaster; the fact of being dependent on other countries. www.heimatland-film.ch

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Michael Krummenacher Jan Gassmann Lisa Blatter Gregor Frei Benny Jaberg Carmen Jaquier Jonas Meier Tobias NĂślle Lionel Rupp Mike Scheiwiller

CONCORSO CINEASTI DEL PRESENTE

Keeper Guillaume Senez

Maxime and Mélanie, both 15 years old and barely out of childhood, are in love. One day, Mélanie finds out she's pregnant. Maxime wants to keep the baby no matter what. www.keeper-film.com * 1978 in Belgium. After graduating from INRACI (Institut National de Radioélectricité et Cinématographie) in 2001, Guillaume Senez directs three short films which have been rewarded in numerous festivals worldwide: SQUARING THE CIRCLE (2006), IN OUR BLOOD (2009) and U.H.T. (2012). KEEPER, starring Swiss shooting star Kacey Mottet Klein (HOME, SISTER), is his first feature film.

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Belgium / Switzerland / France Fiction, 2015, 90 min.

Original language: French World premiere Cast: Kacey Mottet Klein / Galatea Bellugi / Catherine Salée / Sam Louwyk / Laetitia Dosch Production: Iota Production, La Hulpe Louise Productions, Lausanne Offshore, Paris Savage Film, Brussels RTS Radio Télévision Suisse SRG SSR Be TV World Sales: Be For Films, Brussels T +32 4 89 80 21 23, pamela@beforfilms.com

FUORI CONCORSO

About Heaven Fragments du paradis

Stéphane Goël

Switzerland Documentary, 2015, 85 min.

Original language: French World premiere Production: Climage, Lausanne RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Rights: Climage, Lausanne T +41 21 648 35 61 www.climage.ch

Switzerland is often perceived as heaven on earth. But do its inhabitants believe in heaven?

Believers, agnostics and atheists all feel the need for a narrative when confronting death.

What is left of paradise, which once promised eternal happiness? Encountering people in the twilight of their years, this film offers a moving, offbeat and personal quest within the depictions of this place common to all of humanity, faced with hope and shared doubt.

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* 1965 in Lausanne. Stéphane Goël studied documentary filmmaking at Global Village Experimental Center in New York and collaborated with artists like Nam June Park and Shigeko Kubota. He directed several artistic and experimental videos before moving to documentaries. In 1985 he joined the producer's association Climage.

ABOUT HEAVEN is his third feature documentary to premiere at the Festival del film Locarno.

FUORI CONCORSO

The Woods Dreams Are Made Of

Le Bois dont les rêves sont faits

Claire Simon

* 1955 in London. Caire Simon is a French scriptwriter, actress, cinematographer, editor and director. She studied "direct cinema" with the Ateliers Varan and made several documentaries, which garnered multiple awards. Her first two fiction films, SINON, OUI (1997) and the Swiss copro­duction ÇA BRÛLE (2006) were both presented in Cannes. Her latest film GARE DU NORD (2013) also premiered at the Festival del film Locarno in the International Competition.

As a reachable form of a lost Eden within every­ one’s grasp, everybody comes to the Bois de Vincennes to seek refuge in Nature. People from all walks of life have the right to be here: rich, poor, french, foreign, gay, straight, alone or accompanied, old school or hip. The Woods are an island surrounded by the towns that encircle it: a mirage dreamed-up by a fatigued citydweller. The difficulty of living in the city is left behind. Here we heal, we play, we have fun and we dream.

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France / Switzerland Documentary, 2015, 144 min.

Original language: French World premiere Production: Just Sayin' Films, Paris Tipi'mages Productions, Geneva Pio & Co, Paris World Sales: Be For Films, Bruxelles T + 32 4 89 80 21 23 www.beforfilms.com

FUORI CONCORSO

YES NO MAYBE Kaspar Kasics

Switzerland Documentary, 2015, 106 min.

Original languages: German/French/Russian/English World premiere Production: Distant Lights GmbH, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRG SSR World Rights: Distant Lights, Zurich T +41 44 363 82 03 kk@distantlights.ch www.distantlights.ch

What’s up with love? Can it still be found or is it a utopian dream? What keeps a couple together and where does desire take us? In its search for clues, YES NO MAYBE comes upon two completely different couples: a first love and a last love. One begins unexpectedly via Internet, the other culminates in a shared dream of many years in Portland, Oregon. Meanwhile, Eva Illouz and Sven Hillenkamp discerningly crack the code of the impossible character of love, the findings of which the two couples discount. www.yesnomaybe-film.com

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Kaspar Kasics studied Music, German and Philosophy, before working as editor and director for Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF. Since 1990 he workes as an independent author, director and producer. Kasics is known for his documentaries CLOSED COUNTRY (1999) and BLUE END (2000), both presented at the Berlinale (Panorama) and for the renowned documentary film NO MORE SMOKE SIGNALS (2008), which he edited and produced.

PIAZZA GRANDE

Amnesia Barbet Schroeder

* 1941 in Tehran, Iran. Swiss citizenship.

After a childhood in Colombia moves to Paris in 1952, where he studies Philosophy at the Sorbonne. 1958 – 63 Works as journalist and collaborates with Cahiers du Cinéma. 1962 Assistant to Jean-Luc Godard on LES CARABINIERS. 1963 Founds the production company Les films du Losange and produces Eric Rohmer's first two films.

Schroeder directed big budget Hollywood films such as SINGLE WHITE FEMALE (1992) or MURDER BY NUMBERS (2002) and received the César (Best Documentary) for TERROR’S ADVOCATE in 2007.

Ibiza, the early nineties, Jo is a twenty-fiveyear-old music composer. He has come from Berlin to be part of the arising electronic music revolution, ideally by getting a job first as a DJ in the new nightclub on the island, Amnesia.

Martha has been living alone in her house facing the sea for forty years. One night Jo knocks on her door. Her solitude intrigues him. They become friends even as the mysteries around her accumulate: that cello in the corner she refuses to play, the German language she refuses to speak … As Jo draws her into his world of techno music, Martha puts everything she had previously lived by into question.

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Switzerland / France Fiction, 2015, 95 min.

Original languages: English/German World premiere: Cannes 2015 Cast: Marthe Keller / Max Riemelt / Corinna Kirchhoff / Joel Basman / Fermi Reixach / Marie Leuenberger / special guest: Bruno Ganz Production: Vega Film AG, Zurich Les Films du Losange, Paris SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Les Films du Losange, Paris T +33 1 44 43 87 10 www.filmsdulosange.fr

PIAZZA GRANDE

La vanité Lionel Baier

Switzerland / France Fiction, 2015, 75 min.

Original language: French World premiere: Cannes 2015 Cast: Patrick Lapp / Carmen Maura / Ivan Georgiev Production: Bande à part Films, Lausanne Les Films du Poisson, Paris RTS Radio Télévision Suisse SRG SSR World Sales: Wide, Paris T +33 1 53 95 04 64 www.widemanagement.com

David Miller wants to end his life. This elderly architect, now ill, doesn’t want to leave anything to chance, so he contacts an assisted suicide organization. However, Espe, the woman accompanying him on his quest, doesn’t seem that familiar with the procedures. Meanwhile David tries everything he can to convince Tréplev, the Russian prostitute in the room next door, to act as witness to his final moments, as required under Swiss law. Over the course of one night, all three discover that a liking for others – perhaps even love – is a curiously tenacious feeling.

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* 1975 in Lausanne. Lionel Baier studied Arts at the University of Lausanne and is the Head of the Cinema department at the ECAL (École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne) since 2002. In 2009 Baier cofounds Bande à part Films together with Ursula Meier, Jean-Stéphane Bron and Frédéric Mermoud.

He's known for his films STUPID BOY (2004), ANOTHER MAN (2008) and the award-winning LONGWAVE (2013), for which he received the Trophée Francophone for Best Director in 2014.

PIAZZA GRANDE

R E N D E Z-VO U S D U C I N É M A S U I S S E

Erlking

International film critics Peter Debruge [ Variety ], Boyd Van Hoeij [ The Hollywood Reporter ] & Anne Thompson [ Indiewire ] discuss Swiss films

Erlkönig Georges Schwizgebel

HEIMATLAND

[ Concorso internazionale ]

LA VANITÉ

Switzerland, Animation, 2015, 6 min.

Original language: Without dialogue

[ Piazza Grande ]

THE DAY THE SUN FELL [ Semaine de la Critique ]

ABOVE AND BELOW [ Panorama Suisse ]

RENDEZ-VOUS DU CINÉMA SUISSE Spazio RSI [ Magnolia ] Tuesday, August 11 14:30–16:00 In collaboration with

World premiere Production: Studio GDS, Carouge RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Rights: Studio GDS, Carouge T +41 22 342 72 36 www.studio-gds.ch A father rides through the dark forest with his son. The sick child thinks he sees the Erlking, who both charms and frightens him.

Based on Goethe's poem «Erlkönig» and the music of Schubert and Liszt comes a new film by Georges Schwizgebel, one of Switzerland's leading animation film directors.

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ABOVE AND BELOW

by Nicolas Steiner [maximage] – Panorama Suisse

www.swissfilms.ch

SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE

The Day The Sun Fell Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel

Aya Domenig

Switzerland Documentary, 2015, 78 min.

Original languages: German/Japanese World premiere Production: ican films gmbh, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: ican films gmbh, Zurich T +41 44 252 33 59 www.ican-films.com

While tracing the story of her grandfather, who worked as a young doctor at the Hiroshma Red Cross Hospital after the detonation of the atomic bomb, filmmaker Aya Domenig meets a former doctor and a nurse who lived a similar experience. Throughout his life, her grandfather never spoke about what he has went through.

But talking to her protagonists brings her closer to him. When the nuclear disaster occurs in Fukushima on March 11, 2011, her quest takes a new turn.

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* 1972 in Japan. Joint Swiss and Japanese citizenship. Aya Domenig studied Social Anthropology, Film Studies and Japanology at Zurich University and graduated in Film Directing from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). THE DAY THE SUN FELL is her first feature length documentary.

PANOR AM A SUISSE

Above and Below

Air-Mail

Black Cloud

Nicolas Steiner

Isabelle Favez

Basil Da Cunha

Switzerland / Germany, Documentary, 2015, 118 min., Original language: English

Switzerland / France, Animation, 2015, 6 min., Original language: Without dialogue

Switzerland, Documentary, 2014, 19 min.

Original languages: Portuguese / Creole

World premiere: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 Production: maximage GmbH, Zurich Flying Moon Filmproduktion, Berlin SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen ZDF / 3sat World Rights: maximage GmbH, Zurich T +41 44 274 88 66, www.maximage.ch

International premiere: Berlinale 2015 Production: Nadasdy Film Sarl, Geneva Folimage, Bourg-Les-Valences RTS Radio Télévision Suisse World Sales: Magnetfilm, Berlin T +49 163 801 07 53, www.magnetfilm.de

International premiere: Int’l Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2015 Production and World Rights: Andrea Bellini, Geneva T +41 22 329 18 42 The world of the favela Reboleira is coming to an end. A motorway project is threatening this little village in the heart of Lisbon.

Alternating documentary segments on the local history with narratives by various inhabitants, the film captures a vulnerable way of life, in danger of imminent disappearance.

Far, far away and out of sight, that’s where April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and the Godfather are creating life on their own terms. From the depths of the flood channels under Sin City, to a reclaimed military bunker in the middle of the dusty, heated Californian nowhere land, to beyond the stratosphere where Mars now lives on earth. www.aboveandbelowfilm.com

Messages dans l’air

A young woman lives alone with her cat in a small town. The two are complete opposites: whereas the woman is good-hearted and benevolent, the cat is a hunter-killer type. The young woman has a secret: she is in love with her neighbour, a boxer.

Thanks to her cat’s adventures, she will have closer contact to him.

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Nuvem negra

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PANOR AM A SUISSE

Chrieg

Cyclic

Cyclique

Dora Or The Sexual Neuroses Of Our Parents

Simon Jaquemet

Frédéric Favre

by Stina Werenfels

Switzerland, Fiction, 2014, 110 min.

Original language: Swiss-German

Switzerland, Documentary, 2015, 71 min.

Original language: French

Switzerland / Germany, Fiction, 2015, 90 min.

Original language: German

World premiere: Festival Internacional de cine de San Sebastian 2014 Production: Hugofilm Productions GmbH, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Picture Tree International GmbH, Berlin T +49 30 42 08 24 80 www.picturetree-international.com 15-year-old Matteo feels like the world is against him. He has no friends and his parents seem to live in a different universe.

One night two men carry him off: his father sends him to a “youth camp” on a remote alp, where he is forced to spend the summer. When Matteo arrives, a surprise awaits him. www.chrieg.com

World premiere: Visions du Réel Nyon 2015 Production: Lomotion AG Filmproduktion, Bern École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne, Haute école d'art et de design – Genève World Rights: Lomotion AG Filmproduktion, Bern T +41 31 388 00 89 www.lomotion.ch

International premiere: Berlinale 2015 Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich Niko Film, Berlin Aleppo Films, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Magmafilm GmbH, Essen World Sales: Wide, Paris, T +33 1 53 95 04 64 www.widemanagement.com At the age of 18 Dora starts to discover her sexuality. Her mother Kristin recently took her off her medication. Shortly after the mentally disabled teenager becomes sexually involved with a stranger, Kristin is shocked. Without her parents’ knowledge, Dora continues meeting the rather shady man. While her mother tries to have a second child in vain, Dora becomes pregnant. www.dora-derfilm.ch

Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern

Immersed in the world of the bicycle messengers of Lausanne, the film lets the viewer participate in the lives of three messengers who find themselves at a turning point. The film takes us on a rollercoaster of decisions and lets us participate in some of the most intimate moments in the lives of Caroline, Raph and Matila. It addresses the difficulties of finding your place in this world. www.cyclique.ch

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PANOR AM A SUISSE

Grozny Blues

Horizontes

Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow And All Music Has Disappeared

Nicola Bellucci

Eileen Hofer

Stefan Schwietert

Switzerland, Documentary, 2015, 103 min.

Original languages: Russian/Chechen

Switzerland, Documentary, 2015, 70 min. Original language: Spanish

Switzerland / Germany, Documentary, 2015, 86 min. Original language: English

World premiere: Visions du Réel Nyon 2015 Production: Soap Factory GmbH, Basel SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Sales: Antipode Sales & Distribution, Moscow T +7 916 114 1176 antipode-sales.biz

World premiere: Visions du Réel Nyon 2015 Production: Intermezzo Films SA, Geneva World Sales: Taskovski Films Ltd, 19-21 Christopher Street GB-London EC2A 2B United Kingdom T +44 387 65 65 20 46 www.taskovskifilms.com

World premiere: Visions du Réel Nyon 2015 Production: maximage GmbH, Zurich Flying Moon Filmproduktion, Berlin SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRG SSR / WDR World Rights: maximage GmbH, Zurich T +41 44 274 88 66 www.maximage.ch Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. What will remain when it is all gone? When we don’t know anymore what it was: music? Bill Drummond shows it to us: the man who with The KLF once conquered the world of pop and now leads the largest choir of the world: The17, a changing ensemble of amateurs with no sheets of music and no rehearsals. www. imaginewakinguptomorrowandallmusichasdisappeared.com

«Grozny Blues» follows the daily lives of a handful of people living in the capital of war-torn Chechnya. The film’s protagonists – human rights activists, a group of young musicians, the owner of a Blues club - are all trying to find their way through a surreal cityscape and a divided society shaped by repression, archaic customs, increasing Islamification and the failure to come to terms with recent history.

Run-down rehearsal rooms along the halls of the Grand Theatre of Havana, Amanda and Viengsay dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to the demanding routine their discipline requires of them: that of classical ballet. Their every step and aspiration echo the great achievements of their predecessor, Alicia Alonso, the prima ballerina assoluta, still invincible even at the grand age of 90. www.horizontes-film.ch

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PANOR AM A SUISSE

Vecchi pazzi

Wild Women – Gentle Beasts

Wintergast

Sabine Boss

Anka Schmid

Andy Herzog, Matthias Günter

Switzerland, Fiction, 2015, 88 min.

Original language: Italian/German

Switzerland, Documentary, 2015, 96 min.

Original languages: German/French/ Russian/Arabic

Switzerland, Fiction, 2015, 82 min.

Original languages: Swiss-German/ German/English

World premiere: Solothurner Filmtage 2015 Production: Vega Film AG, Zurich RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera World Rights: Vega Film AG, Zurich T +41 44 384 80 90 info@vegafilm.com “I am a soloist!” screams Vivi Ferrari when she is asked to sing in the amateur choir at her senior citizens’ residence. The aged diva would never have given up her flat and her theatre in Milan. But her daughter Alexa forced the issue when she learned of her mother’s, long kept secret, serious illness. Everything that mattered in Vivi’s life has been taken from her. But she has no choice and must accept her fate – for the time being.

World premiere: Visions du Réel Nyon 2015 Production: RECK Filmproduktion GmbH, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRG SSR ARTE World Sales: Films Transit International Inc., Canada info@filmstransit.com www.filmstransit.com

World premiere: Solothurner Filmtage 2015 Production and World Rights: Matthias Günter-Filmproduktion, Bern T +41 79 601 57 26 info@mgfilmproduktion.ch At the peak of his mid-life crisis, Swiss filmmaker Stefan Keller is forced to take on a side job out of financial necessity.

Consequently, he finds himself travelling throughout Switzerland as an anonymous “youth hostel tester” just before Christmas. Thus begins his odyssey. A laconically comic, yet poetic road movie in black and white, between fiction and documentary. www.wintergast.com

Female animal tamers from various continents shine in the spotlight and struggle for their existence behind the scenes.

Between toiling and smiling, the circus artists disclose their passion for their "wild" animals and extraordinary profession: a daily life full of dedication and discipline in the midst of mortal danger. www.wildwomen-film.com

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PA R D I D I D O M A N I – C O N C O R S O N A Z I O N A L E

Public Screenings Friday, August 7, 14:00 La Sala Saturday, August 8, 9:30 L’altra Sala Sunday, August 9, 21:00 L’altra Sala

Public Screenings Monday, August 10, 14:00 La Sala Tuesday, August 11, 9:30 L’altra Sala Wednesday, August 12, 21:00 L’altra Sala

PROGRAM 1 D'ombres et d'ailes

Eleonora Marinoni, Elice Meng

Switzerland/France 13’

Les monts s'embrasent

Laura Morales

Switzerland

22’

Le barrage

Samuel Grandchamp

Switzerland/USA

14’

Ein Ort wie dieser

Philip Meyer

Switzerland

8’

Switzerland

18’

Just Another Day In Egypt Nikola Ilić, Corina Schwingruber Ilić Switzerland

11’

La rivière sous la langue Carmen Jaquier

PROGRAM 2 Babor Casanova

Karim Sayad

Switzerland

38’

Hausarrest

Matthias Sahli

Switzerland

14’

The Meadow

Jela Hasler

Switzerland

9’

Persi

Caterina Mona

Switzerland

17’

Joconde

Lora Mure-Ravaud

Switzerland

14’

SHORT FILM LIBRARY: Have a look at Swiss shorts online Festival delegates, curators, buyers, distributors, cinema programmers, journalists and other film professionals can view a selection of Swiss shorts in our online Short Film Library.

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NEW SWISS SHORTS

Islander’s Rest

Ivan’s Need

Nightlight

Claudius Gentinetta, Frank Braun

Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, Lukas Suter

Nachtlicht

Samuel Flückiger

Switzerland, Animation, 2015, 18 min.

Without dialogue

Switzerland, Animation, 2015, 6 min.

Without dialogue

Switzerland / Canada, Fiction, 2015, 12 min.

Original language: Swiss-German

Production: Gentinettafilm, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRG SSR World Rights: Gentinettafilm, Zurich T +41 44 271 44 55 www.gentinettafilm.ch A bitter-sweet, affectionate tale of lost innocence, bottled-up desires and the comfort of recycling.

Production: HSLU Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: HSLU Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst T +41 41 248 64 64 animation@hslu.ch

World premiere: Palm Springs International ShortFest 2015 Production and World Rights: Aaron Film GmbH, Zurich T +41 43 433 88 57 www.aaronfilm.ch Lithium Studios Productions, Toronto T +1 416 885 13 07 www.lithiumstudios.com When the little brothers Konrad and Baschi get into a fight that spirals out of control it leads to disastrous consequences. While the world outside their home implodes Konrad has just one chance to right his wrong.

Ivan has an obsession for kneading dough.

Watch online: www.swissfilms.ch/shortfilmlibrary

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NEW SWISS SHORTS

Patriots Quest

Unheard

Le don

Marí Alessandrini

Hans-Urs Bachmann

Sophie Perrier

Argentina / Switzerland, Documentary, 2015, 35 min. Original language: Spanish

Switzerland, Fiction, 2015, 17 min.

Original language: Swiss-German

Switzerland, Fiction, 2015, 20 min.

Original language: French

Production: Marí Alessandrini, Geneva World Rights: Marí Alessandrini, Geneva T +41 79 323 65 60 alessandrinimari@gmail.com

Production: Schild Productions, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: Schild Productions, Zurich T +41 44 210 04 74 www.schildproductions.com

Production: Bord Cadre films, Geneva Haute école d'art et de design – Geneva (HEAD) World Rights: Bord Cadre films – Dan Wechsler – Genève T +41 79 411 93 87 info@bordcadrefilms.com

Buscando patriotas

The director has returned to Patagonia, to the region in which she grew up, to relive the experience of school and to meet the children who walk across the steppe to get there. Together with the children she tries to find a shared space along the trail, somewhere between real life and fiction.

Unerhört

A secondary-school teacher accidentally drops a bag of drugs in front of one of his students. As a result the student sudden­ ly finds himself in a powerful position and intends to use it to his advantage. The boundaries between teacher and student come undone in this extreme situation forcing the two to ultimately meet on equal terms – as human beings.

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An annual Christmas charity drive. Two rich donators deliver a financial donation to a local disadvantaged family. However, things are complicated when each member of the family expresses a different attitude towards accepting their generosity.

Sometimes the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

TRANSMEDIA PROJECTS

Polder Samuel Schwarz / Julian M. Grünthal

RELEASE SPRING 2016

Courgette (working title) Claude Barras

EXPECTED FALL 2016

Switzerland / Germany Alternate Reality Game / Feature Movie, 2015, 90 min., Original languages: German/Swiss-German/Japanese

Switzerland / France, Animation / interactive Webplattform, 60 min., Original language: French, Based on «Autobiography of a Zucchini» by Gilles Paris, published by Librairie Plon

World premiere: NIFFF 2015 Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich / Niama Film, Stuttgart / Kamm(m)acher GmbH, Zurich / 400asa Zurich / SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen / SWR Südwestrundfunk World Rights: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich T +41 44 456 30 20 www.dvfilm.ch

Production: Rita Productions,Geneva / Blue Spirit Productions, Paris / Gebeka Films, Lyon / KNM, Geneva / RTS Radio Télévision Suisse / Rhône Alpes Cinéma / Canal plus / France 3 / Helium Films Lausanne World Sales: Indie Sales, Paris, T +33 1 44 83 02 27, www.indiesales.eu

NEUROO-X an entertainment company group, stands for games that dissolve the boundary between reality and gaming. Marcus, Chief Development Manager of NEUROO-X dies shortly before completion of a new gadget. His lover Ryuko finds out that something terrible happened during testing of the game in China, and the deeper she submerges into the secret of NEUROO-X, the more she loses touch with reality. Ryuko finds herself in a world full of demons, witches, knights and terrorists. www.derpolder.com

Zucchini is an unusual nickname for a 9 year old boy and his unique story is surprisingly universal. After his mother’s sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer Raymond, who accompanies Zucchini to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. At first Zucchini struggles to find his place in this strange, at times, hostile environment. Yet with Raymond’s help and his new found friends, he eventually learns to trust, finds true love and at last a new family of his own.

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7 Days 7 giorni

Rolando Colla

* 1957 in Switzerland. Joint Swiss and Italian citizenship. In 1984 Colla founds the production company Peacock Film AG Since 2002 lecturer at the EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.

Colla is known for his OBJECTION series (1999 – 2012) and for SUMMER GAMES (2011) for which he received the Swiss Film Award 2012 for Best Fiction Film and Best Screenplay.

Ivan and Chiara meet in Sicily to prepare the wedding for Ivan’s brother and Chiara’s best friend. Despite the fact that Ivan is determined not to repeat the failure of his last relationship and Chiara does not want to jeopardize her marriage, the two fall in love. They resolve to live their relationship for only a few days and then break it off when the wedding guests arrive on the island. But can love be controlled? Or is it love that controls us?

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Switzerland / Italy Fiction, 116 min.

Original languages: Italian/French Cast: Bruno Todeschini / Alessia Barela Production: Peacock Film, Zurich Solaria Film, Prato SRG SSR RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera ARTE World Rights: Peacock Film, Zurich T +41 44 422 47 70 www.peacock.ch

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Köpek Esen Isik

Switzerland Fiction, 94 min.

Original language: Turkish 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 that satisfies their longing, if only for a moment. An authentic, delicate and unsettling story about love and death and the Turkish society at the beginning of the 21st century.

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* 1969 in Istanbul Turkey. Joint Swiss and Turkish citizenship. Esen Isik lives in Switzerland since 1990 and studied Film at the Zurich Universitiy of the Arts (ZHdK) from 1992 – 97. Esen Isik received the Swiss Film Award in 2000 for Best Short Film for STOLEN FATHER (1999) as well as in 2012 for her short film YOU & ME. KÖPEK means dog in Turkish and is Isik's eagerly awaited first feature film.

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Pour l’exemple Jacob Berger

* 1963 in Great Britain. Joint Swiss and British citizenship. Jacob Berger attends 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.

On April 16, 1942, Jewish cattle trader Arthur Bloch is cold-bloodedly murdered and chopped into pieces by Swiss Nazi sympathizers.

On October 9, 2009, Jacques Chessex, Switzerland's best known French-langu­ age writer and author of the novel on Bloch, Un juif pour l'exemple (A Jew Must Die), dies of a heart attack during a public discussion.

These two stories are really only one.

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Switzerland Fiction, 90 min.

Original language: French Cast: Bruno Ganz / André Wilms Aurélien Patouillard / Paul Laurent Baptiste Coustenoble / Steven Matthews Pierre Antoine Dubey / Elina Löwensohn Production and World Rights: Vega Film AG, Zurich T +41 44 384 80 90 info@vegafilm.com www.vegafilm.com

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The Miracle Of Tekir Le miracle de Tekir

Ruxandra Zenide

Switzerland / Romania Fiction, 90 min.

Original language: Romanian Cast: Dorotheea Petre / Elina Löwensohn Bogdan Dumitrache / George Piștereanu Production: Elefant Films, Geneva Elefant Film Bucharest RTS Radio Télévision Suisse SSR SRG World Rights: Elefant Films Geneva T +41 22 301 65 00 www.elefantfilms.ch

In the heart of the Danube Delta, earth and water, superstition and religion are mixed together to make up the mysterious and miraculous Tekir’s mud. Accused of witchery and chased away from her village, Mara finds herself employed at the Tekir Hotel. She is especially in charge of the rich and eccentric Mrs. Lili, providing her treatment with this miraculous mud.

The relationship between the two women will become the key of the miracle of Tekir, among magic and power tradition and modernity.

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* 1975 in Bucarest, Romania.

Joint Swiss and Romanian citizenship.

1998 Receives degree from the Institute HEI (Hautes Études Internationales) in Geneva. Ruxandra Zenide studied film directing at New York University and at FAMU Prague. She has received many international awards for her short film GREEN OAKS (2003) as well as for her first feature RYNA (2005).

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The Swallow Die Schwalbe

Mano Khalil

* 1964 in Kamishly, Kurdistan-Syria. Swiss citizenship. Mano Khalil studied History and Law at Damascus University as well as Directing at the Film Academy in Bratislava. Khalil has been directing films since 1988 and founded the production company Frame Film (Bern) in 2012. He is known for his documentaries OUR GARDEN OF EDEN (2010) and the award-winning film THE BEEKEEPER (2013).

Mira, a young Swiss in search of her roots, travels to Iraqi Kurdistan, where she is confronted with terrorism, war crimes and street justice, but also with love. The film depicts two of life’s tragedies: not having our wishes fulfilled and having them fulfilled. A journey to the breathtaking landscapes of Kurdistan, but also into the political reality of a region full of conflicts.

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Switzerland Fiction, 102 min.

Original languages: English/ Swiss-German/Kurdish/German Cast: Manon Pfrunder / Ismail Zagros Dejin Jamil / Bengin Ali / Aro Shikhmous Lilian Naef / Christian Samuel Weber Production: Frame Film GmbH, Bern SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen ARTE World Rights: Frame Film GmbH, Bern T +41 78 832 84 73 www.framefilm.ch

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