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The Girl Down Loch Änzi
Wild Plants
Alice Schmid
Nicolas Humbert
Switzerland | 2016 | 87 min. Original languages: Swiss-German / German
Switzerland / Germany | 2016 | 104 min. Original languages: English / German / French
Festivals (selection): IDFA Amsterdam 2016 (First Appearance) | Solothurn Film Festival 2017 | Festival Int’l de Films de Femmes Créteil 2017 Production: Ciné A.S. GmbH, Zurich | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: Ciné A.S. GmbH, Zurich | T +41 44 202 49 69 | www.aliceschmid.ch
Festivals (selection): Visions du Réel Nyon 2016 (International Competition) | DOK.fest Munich 2016 (Special Mention Documentary Film Music Award) | CPH:DOX Copenhagen 2017 Production: Close Up Films, Geneva | Leykauf Film, Munich World Rights: Close Up Films, Geneva | T +41 22 808 08 46 joelle@closeupfilms.ch | www.closeupfilms.ch A documentary about nature and the people that inhabit it, their stories and relationships. The film depicts how nature can prevail in wastelands. How plants germinate and flowers blossom to create a new life environment. An introduction to people who seek their own life patterns, creators of a new form of activism.
Das Mädchen vom Änziloch
The pivotal summer for 12-year-old Laura, who lives in a beautiful remote area in the Swiss mountains. As the only daughter in a taciturn family of farmers and mostly left to her own, she becomes obsessed with the legends told about a gorge in the area where no one dares to go. When a boy from town arrives to help on the farm she finally has a friend to share her fears and fantasies with. After he has left she takes the courage to explore the mysterious place all by herself.
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