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LIGNE NOIRE written & directed by Mark Olexa, Francesca Scalisi
A woman fishing in turbid waters, a suffering nature, the broken chant of the muezzin, all linked by a thin black line.
SWITZERLAND Documentary, 10 min., 2017 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Bengali PRODUCTION AND WORLD RIGHTS: DOK MOBILE, Fribourg www.dokmobile.ch FESTIVALS (SELECTION): Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2017 IFF Rotterdam 2018 Clermont-Ferrand 2018 Tampere International Short Film Festival 2018 Palm Springs ShortFest 2018
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HAMAMA & CALUNA directed by Andreas Muggli
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SWITZERLAND Documentary, 23 min., 2018 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: German, Oromo PRODUCTION AND WORLD RIGHTS: Lucerne School of Art and Design (HSLU) Video Department www.hslu.ch/video FESTIVALS (SELECTION): Visions du Réel Nyon 2018 Guanajuato International Film Festival 2018 International Short Film Festival Sao Paulo 2018 Milano Film Festival 2018
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The two young friends Hamama and Caluna have left everything behind to flee their home country and ended up stranded in a camp in northern Italy. One day, they decide to cross the closed border into Switzerland under cover of darkness by going over the Alps.