SWISS FILMS Previews KFT 2022

FILMS

WINTERTHUR 2022

PREVIEWS

DIE GRAUE

GREYLANDS

directed by Charlotte Waltert, Alvaro Schoeck

An autumn day and the first winter night in the high mountains, it is hunting season. Chamois, birds of prey, snow hares and three men make their tracks between the high sky and the wild landscape. Swathes of mist blur the boundaries between dream, imagination and reality.

CHARLOTTE WALTERT

* 1977. Charlotte Waltert has a Bachelor in Animation from the Lucerne School of Art and Design (HSLU). Her graduation film LITTLE BROTHER WINTER (2011) screened at numerous international festivals. She works as an independent animator.

ALVARO SCHOECK

* 1975. Alvaro Schoeck has a degree in Music Theatre Directing from the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. Since 2010 freelance director at various theatres, currently at the Dortmund Opera.

SWITZERLAND Animation, 11 min. ANIMATION TECHNIQUE: Mixed technique, Paint on glass ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Without dialogue SCREENPLAY: Alvaro Schoeck PRODUCTION: Virage Film / Virage Productions GmbH, Zurich / SRF / SRG SSR PRODUCERS: Saskia von Virág

WORLD RIGHTS: Virage Film / Virage Productions GmbH, Zurich www.viragefilm.ch

LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Distribution Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT: Saskia von Virág Virage Film / Virage Productions T +41 79 452 93 27 mail@viragefilm.ch

DETCEPXE

HANNA (working title) directed by Julietta Korbel

2 Since the death of the painter Pavel, Hanna, his nineteen-year-old granddaughter, has been frantically searching for a painting that he had dedicated to her. A young boy of eleven interferes in her quest and pushes Hanna to come out of the grief in which she had wrapped herself.

WORLD RIGHTS: Thera Production, Lausanne www.thera-production.ch

SWITZERLAND Fiction, 20 min.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: French SCREENPLAY: Julietta Korbel, Colombe Rubini

CAST: Isaline Prévost Radeff, Vidal Arzoni PRODUCTION: Thera Production, Lausanne / RTS PRODUCER: Julien Rouyet

LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Distribution Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT: Julien Rouyet Thera Production T +41 79 332 30 35 julien.rouyet@thera-production.ch

JULIETTA KORBEL * 1996 in Germany. Julietta Korbel is a filmmaker of Swiss and Slovakian origin. She graduated with a Bachelor in Cinema from the École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2019. Her previous short, STILL WORKING (2019), was selected in several festi vals including Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand and Palm Springs and won the Swiss Film Award for Best Graduation Film in 2020.

SUNSETS DON’T MATTER (working title)

DETCEPXE

written & directed by Lasse Linder, Alexandra Rüegg

Seventy-two-year-old Buppah lives behind closed blinds in Florida. Even after fifty-four years in America, the scars of her harsh upbringing on the streets of Bangkok have not healed. When Buppah is diagnosed with Parkinson’s, she suddenly finds herself lost in the exhausting cycle of medication. Her “sunshine state” retirement is now turning into a chronic depression, while her Buddhist faith is letting her believe that she is paying for the sins of her past life.

LASSE LINDER

* 1994. Lasse Linder has a Bachelor in Film from the Lucerne School of Art and Design (HSLU). His diploma film, ALL CATS ARE GREY IN THE DARK (2019), won Best Short Film at both TIFF and Festival dei Popoli as well as the European Film Award for Best Short Film in 2020.

ALEXANDRA RÜEGG

* 1997. Alexandra Rüegg has a Bachelor in Trends & Identity from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). She works as an art director for film, graphic design and fashion.

SWITZERLAND Documentary, 20 min.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: English PRODUCERS: Philipp Ritler, Jonas Ulrich

PRODUCTION AND WORLD RIGHTS: Dynamic Frame GmbH, Zurich www.dynamic-frame.ch

LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Distribution Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT: Philipp Ritler Dynamic Frame T +41 79 522 73 43 philipp.ritler@dynamic-frame.ch

WORLD

EXPECTED

DETCEPXE

STUDENT TNEDUTS FANTASTIC CITSATNAF

KILL YOUR DARLINGS

& directed by Thirza Ingold

4 After farmer Olga butchers her beloved pigs in a fit of lust for meat, the animals find themselves transported to a cloud above the farm. They discover that from there, they can directly influence events on the farm.

Film GmbH, Zurich

McStea

Film T +41 76 464 05 88

SWITZERLAND Animation, 5 min. ANIMATION TECHNIQUE: Stop motion

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Without dialogue PRODUCTION: Asako Film GmbH, Zurich / Lucerne School of Art and Design (HSLU) MA Film Animation Department / SRF

PRODUCER: Anja Kofmel, Gerd Gockell, Jochen Ehmann

THIRZA INGOLD * 1981. Thirza Ingold studied at the Berne University of Teacher Education and teaches still today. She graduated with a Bachelor in Animation from the Lucerne School of Art and Design (HSLU), commencing her Master’s in Animation in 2018. Her short LES SOEURS DE COEUR (2012) screened at numerous festivals, including Lisbon, Trieste and Fantoche in Baden.

AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

BITTER SEPTEMBER by Sophia Farantatou

FLORES DEL OTRO PATIO by Jorge Cadena

INCIDENCES by Michela Flück, Mischa Hedinger

THE MASON by Matteo Gariglio

THE NEWT CONGRESS by Immanuel Esser, Matthias Sahli

SWISS COMPETITION

10 MISSED CALLS by Coline Confort

BEAR by Morgane Frund

BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN? by Julie Ecoffey

CAPRICORN SUNSET by Johannes Binotto

CYRIL & LOUISE by Alexandre Schild

DUST AWAY by Tanita Rahmani, Dea Gjinovci EPIDERMIC by Océane Wannaz

LE MISANTHROPE by Noa Epars

LES GRANDS PRÉS by Michael Karrer, Sophia Remer

PIPES by Jessica Meier, Kilian Feusi, Sujanth Ravichandran

STONES DON’T FLY by Nikita Merlini

THE DECEASED by Philipp Veiga Amaro

THE PARADE by Michail Galanopoulos

THINK SOMETHING NICE by Claudius Gentinetta

ZÜRI SHORTS

DEAR SISTER, by Moris Freiburghaus HEART FRUIT by Kim Allamand HEARTBEAT by Michèle Flury

IN_VISIBLE by Bernadette Kolonko

SIT DOWN, DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING by Frederic Siegel STILL LIFE WITH EMOTION BLUR by Maja Gehrig TIME STRANGER by Lara Jacobs

VISIT US AT OUR STANDS AT: Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market Berlinale European Film Market Cannes Village International Annecy Mifa Locarno International Film Festival Toronto International Film Festival

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