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Published in April 2026
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SWISS FILMS PREVIEWS
SUMMER DRIFT
INHABITING THE NIGHT
JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT
TWO DONKEYS AND A SAINT
SMALL TALK
SUNSETS DON’ T
DUCOS Head of Industry & Consultant Documentary cducos@swissfilms.ch
MÜLLER Consultant Film, Programmes & VOD mmueller@swissfilms.ch
It’s summer in Geneva. Johanna works in a factory where she assembles luxury watches. One day, her old Beetle reappears in her life. Determined, she decides to bring the car back to life in order to face the racing community that rejected her some years ago. Her dreams and reality then begin to joyfully blend together.
WORLD RIGHTS:
Cavale Films, Geneva
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Aurélien Marsais
Cavale Films production@cavalefilms.ch
SWITZERLAND / FRANCE
Documentary, 89 min.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: French PRODUCTION: Cavale Films, Geneva / Alter Ego Production, Orleans
SWISS PRODUCER: Aurélien Marsais
CÉLINE CARRIDROIT
* 1982 in France. Céline Carridroit studied film. A director, artist, teacher of film and visual arts, she cofounded Earthling Productions. She also organises a biennial event in Geneva focusing on sound and radio creation.
ALINE SUTER
* 1982. Aline Suter cofounded Earthling Productions. A filmmaker, she also teaches film and visual arts, and makes radio documentaries. Her films have screened at numerous international festivals.
written & directed by Victoria Maréchal
During the summer months in the Vaud Jura, while the authorities believe they can solve the problems posed by wolves by killing them once again, Eliane, François, Anouck and Corinne look for other ways to live together. Day and night, they invent new ways of inhabiting this shared territory, with gestures marked by attention and curiosity, to learn again and again how to live alongside animals.
VICTORIA MARÉCHAL
* 1988. Victoria Maréchal is a Swiss director and sound engineer living in Argentina. She graduated in directing from the Universidad del Cine and is completing a Master’s degree in Sound Art at UNTREF (National University of Tres de Febrero) in Buenos Aires. Her work, blending video installation, cinema, and sound creation, has been exhibited at festivals worldwide. She also works as a sound recordist and designer, while leading workshops on sound exploration and listening.
SWITZERLAND
Documentary, 105 min.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: French, Spanish
PRODUCERS: Charlotte Klinke, Gaspard Vignon
PRODUCTION AND WORLD RIGHTS:
Marmotte Productions, Vouvry www.marmotteproductions.ch
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Marmotte Productions gaspard@marmotteproductions.ch
written
& directed by Frank Matter
In an unnamed city, we follow the traces of a wide variety of people through an imaginary night. Darkness blurs the clear logic of the day, and even time loses its sharp contours. This narrative is a melancholic and sometimes ecstatic meditation on modern life between reason and unreason, control and escape, longing and disappointment.
WORLD RIGHTS:
Recycled TV AG, Bern www.rectv.ch
soap factory GmbH, Basel www.soapfactory.ch
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Recycled TV AG madeleine@rectv.ch
SWITZERLAND
Documentary, 120 min.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: German, English, French, Swiss-German, Spanish PRODUCTION:
Recycled TV AG, Bern / soap factory GmbH, Basel / SRF PRODUCERS: Madeleine Corbat, Frank Matter
FRANK MATTER
* 1964. Frank Matter started producing and directing films in 1991. From 1993 to 2006 he lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York. He is the owner of the production company soap factory GmbH in Basel.
IL NOSTRO MIRACOLO
written & directed by Davide Tisato
A Tuscan village threatened with extinction rebels against institutional neglect. Nine fearless villagers join forces with the local filmmaker and embark on a 200 km pilgrimage to Rome, with two donkeys in tow and their village saint on their shoulders. They believe the Pope is their last hope to save their collapsing rectory and their community.
DAVIDE TISATO
* 1990. Davide Tisato is a Swiss Italian filmmaker. He obtained a Master’s degree in Sociology from Paul Valéry University in Montpellier and a Master’s in Documentary Filmmaking at EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión) in Cuba. His short CARBÓN won Best Swiss Film at Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, while ARANCA AMARE premiered in Thessaloniki. His projects move between research, activism and cinema. TWO DONKEYS AND A SAINT is his debut feature-length documentary.
SWITZERLAND
Documentary, 90 min.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Italian
PRODUCTION: Cloud Fog Haze Pictures, Zurich / RSI
PRODUCER: Michael Graf
WORLD RIGHTS: Cloud Fog Haze Pictures, Zurich
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Cloud Fog Haze Pictures michael@cfh-pictures.com
FALL 2026
WORLD RIGHTS:
L’ARTIFICE, Geneva www.lartifice.github.io
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directed by Mateo Ybarra
Hoping to launch a career in the luxury world, Charlie enrolls at Institut Villa Pierrefeu – the last finishing school still operating in Switzerland. Here, women from all over the world are prepared to move within the circles of the international elite. Over the course of a summer, their daily life unfolds through lessons in elegance, protocol and the art of conversation.
SWITZERLAND
Documentary, 90 min.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: English, French
PRODUCTION:
L’ARTIFICE, Geneva / RTS
PRODUCERS: Madeline Robert, Mateo Ybarra
MATEO YBARRA
* 1992. Mateo Ybarra works as a director and producer at L’ARTIFICE. He studied at the University of the Arts in London and has a Bachelor from Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève). He codirected LUX (2021), followed by OVER OUR HILLS (2022) and SUMMER CAMP (2025). His films explore contemporary institutions and social structures. They have been selected for and won awards at festivals such as Rotterdam, Locarno, Gijón, Thessaloniki and Jihlava.
FALL 2026
DETCEPXE
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written & directed by Alexandra Rüegg, Lasse Linder
Throughout her life, seventy-four-year-old Bigmama has kept moving forward, striving to adjust to life in the United States while raising three daughters – never looking back on the abuse she endured as a teenager in Bangkok. Now retired, she lives behind closed curtains in sun-drenched Florida. As the daughters try to heal from their intergenerational trauma, the family discovers that Bigmama’s emotional unavailability may have saved them all.
ALEXANDRA RÜEGG
* 1997. Alexandra Rüegg is a multidisciplinary designer and filmmaker with a background in art direction and visual storytelling. SUNSETS DON’T MATTER is a deeply personal film and marks her directorial debut.
LASSE LINDER
* 1994. Lasse Linder is a Master in Film student at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). His short ALL CATS ARE GREY IN THE DARK (2019) won the European Film Award – Best Short Film in 2020.
SWITZERLAND
Documentary, 80 min.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: English
PRODUCTION:
Dynamic Frame, Zurich / SRF
PRODUCERS: Philipp Ritler, Jonas Ulrich, Luzius Fischer
WORLD RIGHTS: Dynamic Frame, Zurich www.dynamic-frame.ch
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INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
DENTRO by Elsa Amiel
HEAT by Jacqueline Zünd
SAUDADES ETERNAS by Emma Boccanfuso
BURNING LIGHTS COMPETITION
ECHOES OF THE HERD by Matthias Joulaud, Lucien Roux
NATIONAL COMPETITION
ALMA by Rafael Palacio Illingworth
COMMON GROUND by Jonathan Jäggi
DER RUNDE TISCH by Benjamin Bucher, Juliette Menthonnex
ETERNAL SNOW by François Kohler
FIRST LAP CRASH by Liam Erlach
NEUTRAL GROUND by Stéphane Goël
NICOLE NICOLE by Lauren Dällenbach
SAFE SPACES by Sarah Horst
THE ROOTS OF MADNESS by Edgar Hagen
TO THE MOON AND BACK by Elisa Gómez Alvarez
TRICONTINENTAL, LETTER TO OPEN IN CASE OF by Laura Cazador WAS DAS WASSER ERZÄHLT by Raphaël Cuomo, Maria Iorio
INTERNATIONAL MEDIUM LENGTH & SHORT FILM COMPETITION
A ROOM OF THEIR OWN by Lucia Martinez Garcia THE RIGHT TO FORGET by Lisa Mazenauer
OPENING SCENES
NEXT STOP : FONTENAY by Charlyne Genoud
REMINISCENCIA by Iryna Melnichenko
BORDERLIGHT
I WANT HER DEAD by Gianluca Matarrese
TRISTAN FOREVER by Tobias Nölle, Loran Bonnardot
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
THE OLIGARCH AND THE ART DEALER by Andreas Dalsgaard
WHILE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS: A DIARY IN SEVEN PARTS by Peter Mettler
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