SWISS
FILMS
WINTERTHUR 2021 PREVIEWS
Hosted by SWISS FILMS in collaboration with
SWISS FILMS PREVIEWS INTERNATIONALE KURZFILMTAGE WINTERTHUR 2021
2 2 3 4 5
SWISS FILMS PREVIEWS EURIDICE, EURIDICE THE MASON (working title) THE RECORD FAIRPLAY
6 SWISS FILMS AT INTERNATIONALE KURZFILMTAGE WINTERTHUR 7 MAIN FOCUS: LA SUISSE N’EXISTE PAS 8 SUPPORT MEASURES FOR SWISS SHORT FILMS 9 NOTES
SWISS FILMS TEAM
ANDREAS BÜHLMANN Head of Festivals & Markets abuehlmann@swissfilms.ch T +41 79 303 58 69
SYLVAIN VAUCHER Consultant Short Films svaucher@swissfilms.ch T +41 79 542 83 80
LAURA DANIEL Consulting Film, Talent & Awards ldaniel@swissfilms.ch T +41 76 343 61 16
E
SWISS FILMS PREVIEWS
D
ECTE XP
EURIDICE, EURIDICE
E
D
WINTER 2021/22
ECTE XP
written & directed by Lora Mure-Ravaud 2
Ondina is a radiant and happy young woman. She shares her life with Alexia, with whom she is madly in love. It is a great love story, passionate and carnal. But one day, Alexia flies back to her native Greece.
Fiction
WORLD RIGHTS: Alva Film Production, Geneva www.alvafilm.ch
LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT: Thomas Reichlin Alva Film thomas@alvafilm.ch
SWITZERLAND / FRANCE Fiction, 40 min. ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Italian CAST: Ondina Quadri, Alexia Sarantopoulou PRODUCTION: Alva Film Production, Geneva / 5 à 7 Films, Paris / RTS SWISS PRODUCER: Thomas Reichlin
LORA MURE-RAVAUD Born in France. Lora MureRavaud studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Strasbourg before entering École Cantonal d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) in the cinema section in 2014. Her first two short films premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. Her graduation film BLACKJACK (2017) won awards in numerous festivals. In 2018 she entered a residency at the Swiss Institute in Rome where she developed EURIDICE, EURIDICE.
SWISS FILMS PREVIEWS
E
D
ECTE XP
ECTE XP
THE MASON
E
IL MURATORE (working title)
D
SUMMER 2022
(working title) written & directed by Matteo Gariglio
SWITZERLAND Documentary, 18 min. ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Italian PRODUCERS: Kaleo La Belle, Matteo Gariglio
PRODUCTION AND WORLD RIGHTS: La Belle Film GmbH, Zurich www.labellefilm.com Matteo Gariglio Films, Lucerne www.matteogariglio.com
LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Distribution Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT: Kaleo La Belle La Belle Film GmbH info@labellefilm.com
Documentary
MATTEO GARIGLIO * 1986. The Swiss-Italian Matteo Gariglio graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor in Film from Lucerne University of Art and Design (HSLU). He pursued his studies with a Master in Documentary Film Directing from DocNomads in Lisbon, Budapest and Brussels in 2015. With his last short documentary, EN LA BOCA (2017), he won the Golden Dragon at Krakow Film Festival, Best International Short Doc at Guanajuato Film Festival and was among others nominated for the European Film Awards.
3
Giuseppe Spagnuolo is the last inhabitant of a small, deserted Italian village. Around him, the old house facades are slowly breaking down and nature is reclaiming the last remaining building structures. Every day, Giuseppe dresses up in elegant clothes in the ruins of his house to present himself to the incoming tourists. But slowly Giuseppe’s personal facade is also beginning to show its cracks.
E
SWISS FILMS PREVIEWS
D
ECTE XP
E
D
WINTER 2021/22
THE RECORD
ECTE XP
written & directed by Jonathan Laskar 4
An antique music instrument dealer receives a magical vinyl record from a traveller. “It reads your mind and plays your lost memories”. Obsessed by this endless record, the antique dealer listens to it again and again, and the memories re-emerge.
Animation
WORLD RIGHTS: Papier perforé / Punched paper films, Geneva www.papierperfore.ch
LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Distribution Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT: Sophie Laskar-Haller Papier perforé / Punched paper films info@papierperfore.ch
SWITZERLAND Animation, 8 min. ANIMATION TECHNIQUE: Drawn animation ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: French PRODUCTION: Papier perforé / Punched paper films, Geneva / RTS PRODUCER: Sophie Laskar-Haller
JONATHAN LASKAR * 1978 in France. Jonathan Laskar has a Bachelor in Fine Arts from University AixMarseille. In 2008 he graduated from the Bauhaus University in Weimar with a degree in Architecture. Having majored in Short Motion at the Lucerne School of Art and Design (HSLU), he completed his Master’s degree in Film in 2013. He works as film director, music composer and as film animator for various Swiss production companies since 2014.
SWISS FILMS PREVIEWS
E
D
ECTE XP
ECTE XP
FAIRPLAY
E
D
SPRING 2022
directed by Zoel Aeschbacher
SWITZERLAND / FRANCE Fiction, 17 min. ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: French SCREENPLAY: Zoel Aeschbacher, Gania Latroche CAST: Dorin Dragos, Pascal Tagnati, Pierre Gommé PRODUCTION: Box Productions, Lausanne / Yukunkun Productions, Paris / RTS SWISS PRODUCER: Elena Tatti
WORLD RIGHTS: Box Productions, Lausanne www.boxproductions.ch
LOOKING FOR: World Sales Int. Distribution Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT: Christelle Michel Box Productions christelle.michel@ boxproductions.ch
Fiction
ZOEL AESCHBACHER * 1993 in France. Zoel Aeschbacher is of Swiss and Vietnamese origin. Marked by the short films of the Kourtrajmé collective, he began experimenting with a DV camera. In 2017 he completed a Bachelor in Film at the École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL). His graduation film, BONOBO (2017), premiered in international competition at the ClermontFerrand Film Festival and received the audience award. BONOBO won the Student Academy Award for best student film in 2019.
5
A teenager in search of recognition, a worker ready to do anything to hit the jackpot and a senior executive at the end of his career who wants to prove to himself that he is still alive. Three characters who are losing their way on the competition highway.
SWISS FILMS AT IKFTW 6
SWISS AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AN ITALIAN SQUARE by Enea Zucchetti ARREST IN FLIGHT by Adrian Flury CREATURE by María Silvia Esteve ON SOLID GROUND by Jela Hasler WHITE SHADOW by Claude Piguet, Annelore Schneider SWISS COMPETITION ANABASE by Benjamin Goubet AND THEN WE TOUCH by Benjamin Egger AYANA by Anouk Meles DREAM RACING by Juliette Riccaboni FEVER by Matias Carlier GOOD VIBES IS ALL I NEED by Saro Vallejo RUN FAST, BITE HARD by Tobias Kubli S—T DOESN’T ADD UP by Christof Nüssli SCREEN TIME by Dan Wenger SOMETIMES I DON’T KNOW WHERE THE SUN by Samantha Aquilino THE AFFRONT by Jonas Ulrich THREE KINGS by Charlie Petersmann UNDER THE ASHES OF THE MEKONG by Emeline Courcier ZIGIPOUSE by Alan Sahin SPARKS COMPETITION IN NATURE by Marcel Barelli SCREEN TIME by Dan Wenger ZÜRI SHORTS DING by Pascale Egli, Aurelio Ghirardelli IN GOOD HANDS by Philipp Ritler, Kezia Zurbrügg I FEEL MORE LIKE A STRANGER (EACH TIME I COME HOME) by Beatrice Minger WHAT IF I WAS WRONG ABOUT WHAT JESUS LOOKS LIKE by Johanna Müller GAZE by Tillo Spreng, Etienne Kompi FISCHKNUSPERLI by Lars Mulle
RENÉ by Tobias Nölle THE FLOOD IS COMING by Gabriel Böhmer LES INTRANQUILLES by Magdalena Froger ALLESWASICHBERÜHRE by Marion Täschler JE FAIS OÙ TU ME DIS by Marie de Maricourt AFTER by Pauline Julier I FOLLOW RIVERS ALETSCH NEGATIVE by Laurence Bonvin IN THE WOODS by Corina Schwingruber Iliç, Thomas Horat THE RIVER UNDER THE TONGUE by Carmen Jaquier FULESEE by Christina Benz TUFFO by Jean-Guillaume Sonnier
MAIN FOCUS: LA SUISSE N’EXISTE PAS
THE IN-BETWEENERS
HOMER, A HUNTER’S FATE by Zahra Vargas AUSFLUG INS GEBIRG by Peter Liechti RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE by Cecile Brun HAMAMA & CALUNA by Anouk Meles (formerly A. Muggli) FOUNTAIN OF EXISTENCE by Olga Titus VO DINNÄ NÜSA – EINE REISE DURCH DIE SCHWEIZ TRINKLER by Marie-Catherine Theiler A LAND FIT FOR HEROES by Claude Piguet, Annelore Schneider FEDOR by Hugo Radi ICEBERGS by Germinal Roaux OFF THE ROAD by Tristan Aymon, David Maye
7
SOLLEN DIE BERGE DOCH RUFEN, WAS SIE WOLLEN
SUPPORT MEASURES FOR SWISS SHORT FILMS
FESTIVAL SUPPORT
For more information please consult our website www.swissfilms.ch A support measure by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (FOC), administrated by SWISS FILMS.
MOST IMPORTANT MODIFICATIONS 2021: – Funding also for festival participation of minority coproductions – New festivals are eligible for support (including EFA-qualifying festivals) – Additional support for the participation of Swiss XR projects in selected sections of international film festivals. Applications must be submitted by the distributor via the Swiss producer.
8
www.bak.admin.ch Contact: support@swissfilms.ch
In order to strengthen the market potential of Swiss films abroad, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (FOC) supports the participation of Swiss films at international film festivals. Support is granted for Swiss films and approved coproductions in selected sections of international film festivals.
VOD SUPPORT
The VOD Support aims to strengthen the online distribution of Swiss films on international VOD platforms. Support is granted for Swiss films and approved coproductions (majority Swiss production). Eligible to apply are production companies, world sales or directors domiciled in Switzerland who own the rights to the film. If the VOD rights have been sold to a professional distributor in the respective territory, support for VOD releases can be applied for exclusively by the distributor via the Distribution Support.
For more information please consult our website www.swissfilms.ch A support measure by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (FOC), administrated by SWISS FILMS. www.bak.admin.ch Contact: support@swissfilms.ch
NOTES
Please consult our website for up-to-date information on our festival attendance. www.swissfilms.ch WATCH SWISS SHORTS ONLINE www.swissfilms.ch/de/short-film-library
SWISS FILMS Neugasse 6, 8005 Zurich Switzerland www.swissfilms.ch Published in November 2021