SWISS FILMS Previews Nyon 2022

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NYON 2022 PREVIEWS

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SWISS FILMS Neugasse 6, 8005 Zurich www.swissfilms.ch Published in April 2022

SWISS FILMS PREVIEWS VISIONS DU RÉEL 2022

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PREVIEWS STUNTWOMEN BASED ON A TRUE STORY BECOMING GIULIA I MIGHT REMEMBER RED ONCE WE WERE PITMEN

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SWISS FILMS TEAM

ANDREAS BÜHLMANN Head of Festivals & Markets abuehlmann@swissfilms.ch T +41 79 303 58 69

CHARLOTTE DUCOS Consultant Documentary Film & Marketing Strategies cducos@swissfilms.ch T +41 76 604 54 95

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STUNTWOMEN written & directed by Elena Avdija

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Virginie, Petra and Estelle are stuntwomen. They get hit by cars or struck by violent husbands and gangsters, often repeatedly. And every time, they get back up on their feet, ready to shoot the scene as many times as necessary.

Freedom, glory or a search for power fuel these women’s desire to push their bodies to the limits. But how much violence are their bodies and minds able to take on?

The film questions how cinema and television distribute roles and violence on the screen.

WORLD RIGHTS: Bande à part Films, Lausanne www.bandeapartfilms.com

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LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Distribution Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT: Agnieszka Ramu Bande à part Films aramu@bandeapartfilms.com

SWITZERLAND / FRANCE Documentary, 85 min. / 52 min.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: English, French, Swiss-German PRODUCTION: Bande à part Films, Lausanne / Alter Ego Production, Orléans / RTS / SRG SSR / ARTE / BIP TV SWISS PRODUCERS: Agnieszka Ramu, Ursula Meier, Marie-Lou Pahud

ELENA AVDIJA * 1987. Elena Avdija has a degree in Sociology from the EHESS (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris. She worked for several years as assistant director in documentaries, notably for Point du Jour in Paris where she developed screenplays for historical documentary series for ARTE. She also directed two selfproduced short documentaries.

On her return to Switzerland, she began working as assistant director on fiction films.

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LISA GERIG * 1990. Lisa Gerig graduated with a Bachelor in Film from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2015. Since then she has worked as a freelance filmmaker in Zurich and Cologne and collaborates with other directors. BASED ON A TRUE STORY is her first feature-length documentary.

SWITZERLAND Documentary, 90 min.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: German, English, French, Tamil, Dari PRODUCTION: Ensemble Film GmbH, Zurich / SRF PRODUCERS: Maurizius Staerkle Drux, Eva Vitija

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Three rejected asylum seekers tell their life stories again for their asylum hearing and thus shed light on the core of the asylum procedure. Whoever succeeds in telling their own biography credibly, without contradictions and as emotionally as possible, stands a better chance to be granted asylum. Will the protagonists succeed this time in describing their complex and traumatic life story in such a way that it meets the official criteria?

WORLD RIGHTS: Ensemble Film GmbH, Zurich www.ensemblefilm.ch

LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Distribution Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT: Eva Vitija Ensemble Film GmbH vitija@ensemblefilm.ch

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written & directed by Lisa Gerig

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written & directed by Laura Kaehr

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Giulia Tonelli, principal dancer at the Zurich Opera House, returns from maternity leave. She has to fight to find her place and a new balance, between the competitive and extremely demanding world of an elite ballet company and her new family life. The documentary is an unprecedented immersion in the microcosm of a great opera house from 2019–2021, an intimate and committed look at the journey of a woman who reclaims her own body and herself to be back on stage.

WORLD RIGHTS: Point Prod, Geneva www.pointprod.ch

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LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Distribution Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT: Vanessa Droz Point Prod vanessa.droz@pointprod.ch

SWITZERLAND Documentary, 90 min.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: German, English, French, Italian PRODUCTION: Point Prod, Geneva / SRF / RTS / RSI PRODUCERS: David Rihs, Vanessa Droz

LAURA KAEHR * 1978. Laura Kaehr trained as a professional ballet dancer at the Centre de Danse Rosella Hightower, Cannes. She holds a Master in Transdisciplinarity in Art from Zurich University of the Arts and an Advanced Certificate in Film and Screenwriting at UCLA Los Angeles.

Her debut short film, 1927, premiered at Locarno’s spring event L’immagine e la Parola in 2014. Her experimental dance film NEW WORLD (2018) won Best Film at the Underexposed Film Festival. She works as screenwriter, director and film choreographer.

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LAURA GABAY * 1987. Laura Gabay is a director and producer. She studied Social Sciences and Cinema at Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève) and EICTV in Cuba.

Her short film SWEET SALTY WIND (2019) was selected at Visions du Réel and IDFA. She coproduced the short films CARBON by Davide Tisato, Best Swiss film in Winterthur 2020 and CREATURE by Silvia Esteve, Pardino d’Oro in Locarno 2021. She is currently working on her first featurelength documentary I MIGHT REMEMBER.

SWITZERLAND / FRANCE Documentary, 60 min.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Spanish SWISS PRODUCERS: Laura Gabay, Morena Henke, Davide Tisato, Irene Muñoz Martin

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Uruguay, 1973: following the military coup, thousands of opponents of the regime flee the country. The filmmaker’s father and her aunt were among them. Three years ago, when her father died, she found dozens of films and audio recordings that brother and sister had exchanged.

Through these archives, she builds a new family story, trying to understand the silence and the pain of exile.

PRODUCTION AND WORLD RIGHTS: Association Ecran Mobile, Geneva www.ecran-mobile.ch Les soeurs Jaouen, Paris marie@lesoeursjaouen.com

LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Distribution Int. Festival Premiere Television & VOD platforms CONTACT: Laura Gabay Association Ecran Mobile laura.gabay@ecran-mobile.ch info@ecran-mobile.ch

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written & directed by Laura Gabay

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directed by Mara Manzolini, Andrea Pellerani, Elodie Dermange

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The documentary follows the life of a young Swiss kickboxer. His violent and dark past as a hooligan dictates his present, made of sacrifice, love, discipline and a desperate search for self-control.

WORLD RIGHTS: Amka Films Productions SA, Savosa www.amka.ch

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LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Distribution Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT: Amel Soudani Amka Films Productions amel@amka.ch

SWITZERLAND Anidoc, 90 min ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Italian SCREENPLAY: Mara Manzolini, Andrea Pellerani PRODUCTION: Amka Films Productions SA, Savosa / Nadasdy Film Sarl, Geneva / RSI / SRG SSR PRODUCERS: Gabriella de Gara, Amel Soudani, Nicolas Burlet

MARA MANZOLINI * 1994 ANDREA PELLERANI * 1984 ELODIE DERMANGE * 1992

RED is their first anidoc as a director’s trio.

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written & directed by Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek

JONAS MATAUSCHEK * 1987 in Germany. Jonas Matauschek studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. In 2021 he was recipient of the Kompagnon Fellowship of Berlinale Talents along with Christian J. Koch.

SWITZERLAND / GERMANY Documentary, 90 min ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: German PRODUCTION: Catpics, Zurich / elemag pictures, Leipzig / SRF / ZDF SWISS PRODUCERS: Rajko Jazbec, Dario Schoch, Sarah Born

WORLD RIGHTS: Catpics, Zurich www.catpics.ch elemag pictures, Leipzig www.elemagpictures.com

LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Distribution Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT: Rajko Jazbec Catpics rajko.jazbec@catpics.ch

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CHRISTIAN JOHANNES KOCH * 1986. Christian Johannes Koch is a director, screenwriter and lecturer in script development. After a number of short films, SPAGAT (2020), his feature fiction film debut, premiered in San Sebastian.

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Black dust, high-pitched metallic sounds, dark tunnels, strong working men – this is the past. The humorous and heart warming journey of five miners rediscovering themselves in times of climate change and gender discussions after their workplace, the last underground coal mine in Germany, is finally shut down.

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INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION LIKE AN ISLAND by Tizian Büchi MY OLD MAN by Steven Vit

BURNING LIGHTS COMPETITION GETTING OLD STINKS by Peter Entell GHOST FAIR TRADE by Laurence Bonvin

NATIONAL COMPETITION BIG BOY by Louise Carrin CALVINIA by Rudi van der Merwe COUVRE-FEU. A DIARY BY MONIQUE SAINT-HÉLIER (1940–44) by Rachel Noël DON’T WORRY ABOUT INDIA by Nama Filmcollective DRAGON WOMEN by Frédérique de Montblanc FIERCE: A PORN REVOLUTION by Patrick Muroni FUKU NASHI by Julie Sando LE FILM DE MON PÈRE by Jules Guarneri MAN CAVES by Céline Pernet PÉRIPHÉRIQUE NORD by Paulo Carneiro SONS OF THE WIND by Felipe Monroy SUPERTIME by Daniel Kemény THE PENITENTIARY by Anne Theurillat

INTERNATIONAL MEDIUM LENGTH & SHORT FILM COMPETITION INITIAL by Hugo Radi J’AI ÉNORMÉMENT DORMI by Clara Alloing RAMBOY by Matthias Joulaud, Lucien Roux

OPENING SCENES CASTING DI UN PADRE by Giulia Goy TEA AND TIME by Salah El Amri

LATITUDES SEE YOU FRIDAY, ROBINSON by Mitra Farahani

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