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D O C S F A L L
T E A M TABLE OF CONTENTS
Swiss Docs Fall 2015
Documentary Films Feature Length – Completed 03
Documentary Films Shorts – Completed 10
Festival Favourites 13
Documentary Films – Coming Soon 15
Documentary Films – In Production 23
Catherine Ann BergerManaging Director
[email protected] +41 76 368 02 65
Selina WillemseHead of Festivals & Markets
[email protected] +41 79 286 51 88
Aida SuljicicHead of Programmes
& Festival [email protected]
T +41 77 431 87 79
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Switzerland2015, 85 min.
Original language: FrenchWorld premiere:
Festival del film Locarno 2015Production
Climage, LausanneRTS Radio Télévision Suisse
World Sales:Doc & Film International, Paris
T +33 1 42 77 56 87www.docandfilm.com
* 1965 in Lausanne. Stéphane Goëlstudied documentary filmmaking at Global
Village Experimental Center in New Yorkand collaborated with artists like Nam
June Park and Shigeko Kubota. He directed several artistic and experi mental videos
before moving to documentaries. In 1985 he joined the producer's association Climage.
ABOUT HEAVEN will be presented at IDFA, November 2015 in the Masters Section.
Stéphane Goël
C O M P L E T E D F E A T U R E L E N G T H
Switzerland is often perceived as heaven on earth. But do its inhabitants believe in heaven? Believers, agnostics and atheists all feel the need for a narrative when confronting death. What is left of paradise, which once promised eternal happiness? Encountering people in the twilight of their years, this film offers a moving, offbeat and personal quest within the depictions of this place common to all of humanity, faced with hope and shared doubt.
About HeavenFragments du paradis
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Switzerland2015, 88 min.Original languages: English / French / RussianWorld premiere: CHP:DOX Copenhagen 2015Production:p.s. 72 productions GmbH, ZurichSRG SSR 3satWorld Sales:Autlook Filmsales GmbH, ViennaT + 43 720 34 69 34www.autlookfilms.com
* 1957 in Paris. Lives in Switzerland since1961, where he first studied acting atthe Theatre Academy of Zurich and workedas an actor. In 1991 Bergkraut startedmaking documentary films. After COCA,THE DOVE FROM CHECHNYA (2005),awarded with the International HumanRights Film Award Berlin 2006, andLETTER TO ANNA (2008), a personalinvestigation on Anna Politkovskaja’sdeath, honoured with the Vaclav HavelAward 2008, CITIZEN KHODORKOVSKY isBergkraut’s third film on Russia.
Ten years in Russian penal colonies have marked Mikhail Khodorkovsky but could not break his spirits: Russian president Vladimir Putin might no longer see any threat in his former political prisoner but the exiled Khodorkovsky hopes that Putin is utterly mistaken. Unexpectedly set free Khodorkovsky left prision as a man with stronger inner freedom, dedicating all his energy, ideas and power to create another Russia – a Russia without Putin.
Eric Bergkraut
C O M P L E T E D F E A T U R E L E N G T H
Citizen Khodorkovsky – Who Is Left To Take On Vladimir Putin?
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Switzerland2015, 60 min.
Original language: Swiss-GermanProduction:
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdKSRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
World Rights:Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK
T +41 44 446 31 [email protected]
The film reconstructs the memories of a divorced family with empathy yet merciless precision. An intimate family story emerges during the investigation into the reasons for the sepa ration. Hinging on the subtle and touching testi monies of the family members, the film delves into complex interrelationships. Actors bring the family's memories alive as if they were their own. The result is a chronicle of a family drama, which the real protagonists complement and comment on – a reflection on the mechanisms and dynamics shaping and directing their family life over the years.
* 1975 in Switzerland. Natalie Pfister worked as a school teacher before she
received a degree in Social Policy and Contemporary History in 2005.
In 2015 she graduated with a Master in documentary film from Zürich
University of the Arts (ZHdK). FAMILY FRAGMENTS is her first feature film.
It was nominated for Best Documentary at the First Steps Award 2015.
Natalie Pfister
Family Fragments
Familienbruchstücke
C O M P L E T E D F E A T U R E L E N G T H
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Switzerland2015, 77 min.Original languages: Swiss-German/GermanWorld premiere:DOK Leipzig 2015 Production:SwissDok GmbH, BaselZürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdKSRF Schweizer Radio und FernsehenWorld Rights:SwissDok GmbH, BaselT + 41 76 328 35 34www.swissdok.ch
* 1973 in Basel. Eva Vitija receives a degree as screenwriter from DFFB (Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin) in 2002 and works as screenwriter for film and television as well as script consultant in Switzerland and Germany. Since 2012 Master studies in Film at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). MY LIFE AS A FILM is her first feature.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life. It infuriated me, because I had unavailingly attempted to get away from his camera. My father, filmmaker Joschy Scheidegger, documented our family obsessively. It was only when he died that I was impelled to take over not only his extensive film archive, but also his camera. The result is a personal search for traces of surprising truths hidden behind my father’s pictures. A philosophical family story about filming and the attempt to capture life.
Eva Vitija
My Life As A FilmMein Leben als Film
C O M P L E T E D F E A T U R E L E N G T H
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Germany / Switzerland / Iran2015, 91 min.
Original languages: Persian/DariWorld premiere:
IDFA 2015 Production
Tag/Traum GmbH Filmproduktion, CologneIntermezzo Films SA, Geneva
RTS Radio Télévision SuisseSRG SSR
Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, TehranWorld Sales
CAT&Docs, ParisT +33 1 44 59 63 53
www.catndocs.com
* 1973 in Tehran, Iran. Studied filmmaking and animation at Tehran Art Uni versity.
2009 Published essays and a book, "Animated Documentary: A New Way to
Express," published in Persian. Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami is especially known for her documentary GOING UP THE STAIRS
(2011) and her graduation film, the animated documentary CYANOSIS (2007).
Sonita is an 18yearold undocumented Afghan illegal immigrant living in the poor suburbs of Tehran. She is a feisty, spirited, young woman who fights to live the way she wants, as an artist, singer, and musician, in spite of all the obstacles she confronts in Iran and her conservative patriarchal family. In harsh contrast to her goal is her family's plan – strongly supported by her mother – to make her a bride and sell her to a new family. The price at present is about 9'000 US Dollars.
Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
Sonita.
Every Girl Has A Price.
C O M P L E T E D F E A T U R E L E N G T H
Switzerland2015, 78 min.Original languages: German / JapaneseWorld premiere:Festival del film Locarno 2015Production:ican films gmbh, ZurichSRF Schweizer Radio und FernsehenWorld Rights:ican films gmbh, ZurichT +41 44 252 33 59www.ican-films.com
* 1972 in Japan. Joint Swiss and Japanese citizenship. Aya Domenig studied Social Anthropology, Film Studies and Japan ology at Zurich University and graduated in Film Directing from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Her graduation short film HARU ICHIBAN (Spring Storm) was presented at important festivals such as Locarno, Winterthur and ClermontFerrand and was awarded at Premier Plans in Angers. THE DAY THE SUN FELL is her first feature length documentary.
SwissJapanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the experience of her deceased grandfather by tracing the lives of a doctor and of former nurses who once shared the same experience. While gathering the memories and present views of these very last survivors, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima strikes and history seems to repeat itself. Beautifully intimate and personal, yet it reaches out across the world in terms of the issues that are at hand. Anne Thompson, Indiewire
A topic of international interest – this movie is poetic. Peter Debruge, Variety
Aya Domenig
The Day the Sun FellAls die Sonne vom Himmel fiel
C O M P L E T E D F E A T U R E L E N G T H
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Switzerland2015, 106 min.
Original languages: German / French / Russian / English
World premiere:Festival del film Locarno 2015
Production:Distant Lights GmbH, Zurich
SRF Schweizer Radio und FernsehenSRG SSR
World Rights:Distant Lights, Zurich
T +41 44 363 82 [email protected]
www.distantlights.ch
Kaspar Kasics studied Music, German andPhilosophy, before working as editor and director for Schweizer Radio und
Fernsehen SRF. Since 1990 he workes as an independent author, director and producer.
Kasics is known for his documentaries CLOSED COUNTRY (1999) and BLUE END
(2000), both presented at the Berlinale (Panorama) and for the renowned docu
mentary NO MORE SMOKE SIGNALS (2008), which he edited and produced.
What’s up with love? Can it still be found or is it a utopian dream? What keeps a couple together and where does desire take us? In its search for clues, YES NO MAYBE comes upon two completely different couples: a first love and a last love. One begins unexpectedly via Internet, the other culminates in a shared dream of many years in Portland, Oregon. Meanwhile, Eva Illouz and Sven Hillenkamp discerningly crack the code of the impossible character of love, the findings of which the two couples discount. www.yesnomaybe-film.com
Kaspar Kasics
YES NO MAYBE
C O M P L E T E D F E A T U R E L E N G T H
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C O M P L E T E D S H O R T S
Babor Casanova
Karim Sayad
Switzerland, 2015, 35 min.Original language: Arabic
World premiere:Festival del film Locarno 2015Production and World Rights:Close Up Films, GenevaT +41 22 808 08 46www.closeupfilms.ch
Algiers. Adlan and Terrorist navigate the neighborhood, desperately trying to make a few dinars. Between small deals and unofficial parking service, they wait for the weekends and the Mouloudia soccer games. There, they can forget the emptiness of their lives, sing their love for the team and dream about the boat that might take them far away.
Watch online: SHORT FILM LIBRARYwww.swissfilms.ch/shortfilmlibrary
Just Another Day In Egypt
Nikola Ilić / Corina Schwingruber Ilić
Switzerland, 2015, 11 min.Original language: Arabic
World premiere:Festival del film Locarno 2015Production and World Rights:Cortha Film, LuzernT +41 78 835 51 [email protected]
What's left after the Egyptian Revolution in 2011? Not much, except a lot of people in prison and a big disappointment. The former Chief of Army AlSisi took over and now rules the country with an iron fist. Everyday life goes on and in Cairo's alleyways people are trying to make the best of it.
Watch online: SHORT FILM LIBRARYwww.swissfilms.ch/shortfilmlibrary
A Simple Story, Mine, Yours And M’s Dastan-e sadeye man, to va mimAtefeh Yarmohammadi
Switzerland / Iran, 2015, 32 min.Original language: Persian
World premiere:Int'l Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2015 Production: Haute école d'art et de design, GenevaAtefeh Yarmohammadi, TehranWorld Rights:Haute école d'art et de design, GenevaT +41 22 388 58 [email protected]/cinema
In search of one's childhood, what is lost, forgotten, stolen. Back in the 1980's in Iran, an eventful decade that changed our lives. Just before and after the revolution, an entire country is destabilized. And then the war, unforeseen complicating the lives of Iranians, and whose influences never end.
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C O M P L E T E D S H O R T S
Our SeaNuestro marEileen Hofer
Switzerland, 2015, 15 min.Original language: Spanish
World premiere:Int'l Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2015Production and World Rights:5 To Five, [email protected]
In Havana, Emilio watches the prima ballerina dancing. He repairs her ballet shoes but doesn’t dare talk to her. At home, he takes care of his elderly mother and spends some time with his neighbour, the singer Omara Portuondo. Together they watch the sea changing its colour. A storm is brewing.
Watch online: SHORT FILM LIBRARYwww.swissfilms.ch/shortfilmlibrary
Pedro M, 1981
Andreas Fontana
Switzerland / Spain, 2015, 27 min.Original language: Spanish
World premiere:Visions du Réel Nyon 2015Production:Terrain Vague, LausanneLaissez-faire, MadridWorld Rights:Terrain Vague, LausanneT +41 78 743 38 89www.terrainvague.ch
Madrid. A woman is tracking down the father she never knew. Pedro Martin, a Spanish cameraman, filmed the attempted coup d’état, in the parliament on February 23, 1981. In search of her father, the cameraman’s daughter meets people who are haunted by images of the past. Sometimes, historical archives can conceal an intimate tragedy.
Watch online: SHORT FILM LIBRARYwww.swissfilms.ch/shortfilmlibrary
Moriom
Francesca Scalisi / Mark Olexa
Switzerland, 2015, 12 min.Original language: Bengali
World premiere:Int'l Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2015Production and World Rights:DOK MOBILE, FribourgT +41 79 718 48 91www.dokmobile.ch
Summer 2014. Rural Bangladesh. "I came from Heaven. I came to destroy all bad things in the world. I'm a police officer. I'm a flower angel. I got a job at the police station. I will punish them. I will put them in jail." This is the story of a girl and the tragedy that changed her life.
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Sempervirens
Raphaël Dubach
Switzerland, 2015, 46 min.Original language: French
World premiere:IDFA 2015Production and World Rights:École Cantonale d'Art de LausanneT +41 21 316 99 [email protected]
Since he fell off his bike, Mr. Jacot hasn’t been himself; in fact he isn’t really anybody. The brain damage he sustained in the fall means his existence is reduced to the bare minimum of consciousness. Mr. Jacot is an unresponsive body lying in a white bed. He is treated at the acute neurorehabilitation centre of the CHUV by a group of highly specialized therapists. He begins a long journey, structured by the regular rhythm of these therapies, where he has to learn how to use his body again and to reestablish his personality.
The Meadow
Jela Hasler
Switzerland, 2015, 9 min. Without dialogue
World premiere:Festival del film Locarno 2015Production and World Rights:Jela Hasler, ZurichT +41 79 757 64 91www.jelahasler.ch
In a dry, barren landscape, a herd of cattle grazes, accompanied by dogs, tended to by cowboys. Step by step the seemingly peaceful place starts to prove deceptive to the viewer – while the cows end their day as it began.
Watch online: SHORT FILM LIBRARYwww.swissfilms.ch/shortfilmlibrary
Procedere:
Delia Schiltknecht
Switzerland, 2015, 6 min.Original language: German
World premiere:Leipzig 2015 Production and World Rights:Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdKT +41 43 446 31 [email protected]
"Bad images should disappear immediately!" Negative images mustn't be thought of. Nevertheless they are here and constantly circling in one's head. Compulsion should chase them away.
F E S T I V A L F A V O U R I T E S
Arlette. Courage Is A Muscle.Arlette. Mut ist ein MuskelFlorian Hoffmann
Switzerland / Germany, 2015, 84 min.Original languages: German/French/Sango
Festivals (selection): Visions du Réel Nyon 2015 (world premiere)Duisburger Filmwoche 2015, IDFA 2015Production: PS Film GmbH, ZurichSRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen3satFlorian Hoffmann, BaselDeutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie BerlinWorld Rights:PS Film GmbH, ZurichT +41 44 481 31 [email protected]
Arlette, a 15yearold girl from the Central African Republic, suffered severe injuries during the last war. In Berlin a surgery frees her from her pain. But then war breaks out again in her homeland. What was planned to be a short stay in Germany turns into a journey without a foreseeable end. A journey from childhood to adulthood.
Grozny Blues
Nicola Bellucci
Switzerland, 2015, 103 min.Original languages: Russian / Chechen
Festivals (selection):Visions du Réel Nyon 2015 (world premiere)Festival del film Locarno 2015Busan International Film Festival 2015DOK Leipzig 2015, IDFA 2015Production:Soap Factory GmbH, BaselSRF Schweizer Radio und FernsehenWorld Sales:Antipode Sales & Distribution, MoscowT +7 499 978 73 14antipode-sales.biz
"Grozny Blues" follows the daily lives of a handful of people living in the capital of wartorn Chechnya. The film’s protagonists – human rights activists, a group of young musicians, the owner of a Blues club – are all trying to find their way through a surreal cityscape and a divided society shaped by repression, archaic customs, increasing Islamification and the failure to come to terms with recent history.
Above and Below
Nicolas Steiner
Switzerland / Germany, 2015, 118 min. Original language: English
Festivals (selection): International Film Festival Rotterdam2015 (world premiere), BAFICI 2015, Hot Docs Toronto 2015, Edinburgh 2015, KVIFF 2015, Vancouver Int'l Film Festival 2015, IFF Message to Man St. Petersburg 2015Production:maximage GmbH, ZurichFlying Moon Filmproduktion, BerlinSRF Schweizer Radio und FernsehenZDF / 3satWorld Rights:maximage GmbH, ZurichT +41 44 274 88 66, www.maximage.ch
Far, far away and out of sight, that’s where April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and the Godfather are creating life on their own terms. From the depths of the flood channels under Sin City, to a reclaimed military bunker in the middle of the dusty, heated Californian nowhere land, to beyond the stratosphere where Mars now lives on earth. www.aboveandbelowfilm.com
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Imagine Waking Up TomorrowAnd All Music Has Disappeared
Stefan Schwietert
Switzerland / Germany, 2015, 86 min. Original language: English
Festivals (selection):Visions du Réel Nyon 2015, Doc Against Gravity Film Festival Warsaw 2015, Edin-burgh Int’l Film Festival 2015, Filmfest Munich 2015, CHP: DOX Copenhagen 2015Production: maximage GmbH, ZurichFlying Moon Filmproduktion, BerlinSRF Schweizer Radio und FernsehenSRG SSRWorld Rights:maximage GmbH, ZurichT +41 44 274 88 66, www.maximage.ch
Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. What will remain when it is all gone? When we don’t know anymore what it was: music? Bill Drummond shows it to us: the man who with The KLF once conquered the world of pop and now leads the largest choir of the world: The17, a changing ensemble of amateurs with no sheets of music and no rehearsals.
Iraqi Odyssey
Samir
Switzerland / Germany / UAE / Iraq, 2014, 162 min., 3D, Orig. languages: Ger / Eng/ Fr/Arabic
Festivals (selection):TIFF 2014 (world premiere), Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2014, Berlinale 2015, BAFICI 2015, Beldocs 2015 Int'l Documentary Film Festival, New Zealand, Int'l Film Festival 2015, Duisburger Filmwoche 2015Production:Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Zurich, / Coin Film, Cologne / Furat al Jamil, BaghdadWorld Sales:Autlook Filmsales GmbH, ViennaT +43 720 34 69 34, www.autlookfilms.com
Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by dictatorship, war and occupation. www.iraqiodyssey.com
Horizontes
Eileen Hofer
Switzerland, 2015, 70 min.Original language: Spanish
Festivals (selection):Visions du Réel Nyon 2015, KVIFF 2015, Fes-tival del film Locarno 2015, New Horizons Wroclaw 2015, Raindance 2015, Montreal World Film Festival 2015, FIFF Namur 2015 Production:Intermezzo Films SA, GenevaWorld Sales:Taskovski Films Ltd, LondonT +44 387 65 65 20 46www.taskovskifilms.com
Rundown rehearsal rooms along the halls of the Grand Theatre of Havana. Amanda and Viengsay dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to the demanding routine their discipline requires of them: that of classical ballet. Their every step and aspiration echo the great achievements of their predecessor, Alicia Alonso, the prima ballerina assoluta, still invincible even at the grand age of 90. www.horizontes-film.ch
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Switzerland / Germany, 117 min.Original languages: German / French
Production:PS Film GmbH, Zurich
Filmpunkt GmbH, CologneSpecogna Film, Berlin
ZDF / 3sat World Rights:
PS Film GmbH, ZurichT +41 44 481 31 70
* 1959 in Switzerland. Heidi Specogna worked as a journalist before studying
film at the DFFB Berlin from 1982 – 88 and founded her own production company
Specogna Film in 1990. Specogna is known for her awardwinning documentaries
CARTE BLANCHE (2011), THE GOALGETTER'S SHIP (2010) and THE SHORT
LIFE OF JOSÉ ANTONIO GUTIERREZ (2006). She works as a lecturer in docu
mentary filmmaking at the Film Academy BadenWürttemberg in Ludwigsburg.
Taking centre stage in the film is a small notebook, an ordinary exercise book with fancy racing cars on the cover. But in place of vocabulary, its pages are filled with courageous testimonies by 300 Central African women and girls. They reveal what was done to them by Congolese mercenary soldiers in the course of military disputes in October 2002. The notebook is their selfmade piece of evidence to indict the crimes of rape committed against them.
Heidi Specogna
C O M I N G S O O N
Cahier africain
EXPECTEDJANUARY
2016
Europe, She Loves
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Switzerland / Germany, 95 min.Original languages: English / Estonian / Greek / Croatian / SpanishProduction:2:1 Film GmbH, ZurichLüthje Schneider Hörl / FILM GbR, MunichWorld Rights:2:1 Film GmbH, ZurichT +41 43 536 99 75www.2zu1film.com
* 1983 in Zurich. Jan Gassmann studied documentary film directing at HFF (Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film) Munich. His awardwinning first feature CHRIGU (2007) turned into a big international festival success. Gassman is the codirecotr of KARMA SHADUB (2013) as well as one of the initiators and directors of WONDERLAND, which premiered at the Festival del filmLocarno 2015 (International Competition).
Five couples are on the edge of Europe. With charm, sex and love they struggle with everyday life. This is a political movie portrayed in images, not in words. Five couples are geographically separated but they are joined in their fight for life under the roof of Europe. Seville, Dublin, Tallinn, Thessaloniki, Zagreb. Europe, she loves.
Jan Gassmann
C O M I N G S O O N
EXPECTEDSPRING
2016
Switzerland, 90 min.Original languages: German/Swiss-German
Production:Mira Film GmbH, Zurich
SRF Schweizer Radio und FernsehenWorld Rights:
Mira Film GmbH, ZurichT+ 41 43 960 36 84
www.mirafilm.ch * 1970 in Switzerland. Ivo Zen studied architecture at the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) before
receiving a degree from ESBA (École Supérieure des BeauxArts, Geneva), film
and video department in 2003. Zen works as lecturer for documentary film
at HEADGenève and is the president of the CIR (Cineasts Independents
Rumantschs), the interest group for RhaetoRomanic filmmakers.
Using the diary of his friend Martin Felix, film director Ivo Zen delves into the world of a human being whose life was destroyed due to the use of drugs. Through encounters with friends and companions and the use of Ivo Zens own Super8 film diary, the film examines why it was so difficult for Martin and Ivo to grow up.
Ivo Zen
C O M I N G S O O N
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EXPECTEDSPRING
2016
King Of The Air – Notes On A Friendship
Zaunkönig –Tagebuch einer Freundschaft
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Switzerland, 90 min.Original languages: Khmer / BunongProduction and World Rights:Cinéma Copain, ZurichT +41 79 231 75 81www.cinemacopain.com
* 1963 in Iran. Mehdi Sahebi studied Ethnology, History and International Law at the University of Zurich, where he received his PhD in Visual Anthropology in 2006. Sahebis impressive documentary ZEIT DES ABSCHIEDS (2006) was screened at many festivals worldwide and won several awards, such as the SRG SSR idée suisse Award of the Semaine de la critique at the Festival del film Locarno and the Grand Jury Prize as well as the Audience Award at the international film festival «Entre vues» in Belfort.
Binchey, a traditional peasant farmer from Mondulkiri, was expelled from his land – like hund reds of thousands of farmers in Cambodia. He feels powerless in the face of foreign rubber tree plantations spreading across more and more parts of the country. Together with Binchey and other villagers, film director Mehdi Sahebi stages the story of this confiscation of the land and its ramifications.
Mehdi Sahebi
C O M I N G S O O N
MIRR – The Field
EXPECTEDSPRING
2016
C O M I N G S O O N
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Susanne Regina Meures
Switzerland, 86 min.Original languages:
Persian / English / Swiss-GermanProduction:
Christian Frei Filmproduktion GmbH, ZurichZürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdKSRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
3sat ZürichWorld Rights:
Christian Frei Filmproduktion GmbH, ZurichT +41 44 481 70 66
* 1977 in Germany. Susanne Regina Meures studied Photography and Art History
in London 2000 – 06. Since 2012 she is enrolled in MA studies in Film at the
University of the Arts in Zürich (ZHdK). RAVING IRAN is her first feature film.
Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran’s underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they organize one last manic techno rave under dangerous circumstances in the desert. Back in Tehran they try their luck selling their illegally printed album without permission. When Anoosh is arrested, there seems to be no hope left. But then they receive a phone call from the biggest techno festival in the world. Once landed in Switzerland, the haze of the instant euphoria evaporates quickly when the seriousness of the situation starts to dawn on them.
EXPECTEDSPRING
2016
Raving Iran
Switzerland, 95 min.Original languages: Mandarin / English /Swiss-GermanProduction:Container TV, AG für Film undFernsehproduktion, BernSRF Schweizer Radio und FernsehenWorld Rights:Container TV, AG für Film undFernsehproduktion, BernT +41 31 371 10 42www.container-tv.com
* 1953 in Switzerland. Jürg Neuenschwander cofounded the production company Container TV AG. He has been working as an independent director and producer since 1984. He directed renowned documentaries such as ENCOUNTERS ON THE MILKY WAY (2000) or SOONER OR LATER (2003). Since 2009 he is a visiting professor at Tongji University Shanghai, lives and works in Bern and Shanghai.
Take what has already been invented, develop it further, let your competitors copy it and integrate their innovations into your own product: this is The Chinese Recipe of progress. Zhou searches for blueprints on the Internet and highend components in rubbish dumps to build amplifiers "better than the original". The deals made between a Swiss machine manufacturer and its Chinese imitators are based on the philosophy of collaboration instead of suing for breach of copyright. Hex, the smart Chinese designer startup becomes globally successful and throws itself into new adventures in California.www.thechineserecipe-movie.com
Jürg Neuenschwander
C O M I N G S O O N
EXPECTEDWINTER
2015/2016
The Chinese Recipe – Smart & Courageous
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* 1991 in Cairo. Joint Swiss and Egyptian citizenship. Christophe M. Saber received a BA in Film from ECAL
(École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne) in 2014. His awardwinning short film
DISCIPLINE (2014) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014 and has been selected for more
than 100 festivals since. THE VALLEY OF SALT is Saber's first feature film.
In the midst of Egypt's worst political time, a young filmmaker returns home, to Cairo, for the first time since the start of the revolution. Before leaving Switzerland, his parents warn him that they are receiving death threats as a result of their work amongst Christian communities. For two weeks, a son watches his parents face a situation that will shake their faith and question their presence in their own country.
Christophe M. Saber
C O M I N G S O O N
Switzerland, 62 min.Original languages: French / Arabic
Production:Box Productions sàrl, Renens
World Sales:Salaud Morisset, Berlin
T +49 152 25 19 23 36www.salaudmorissetproduction.com
EXPECTEDSPRING
2016
The Valley Of Salt
La Vallée du Sel
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Switzerland / Germany, 100 min.Original languages: German / English / JapaneseProduction and World Rights:Recycled TV AG, BernT +41 31 318 53 53, www.rectv.chWerner Penzel Filmproduktion, [email protected]
* 1950 in Germany. In the seventies extensive travels through North Africa, India, Japan, South and Central America. First feature length documentary VAGABUNDEN KARAWANE (1980), folllowed by ADIOS AL ODIO (1985). In 1986 he founds CineNomad in collaboration with Nicolas Humbert, resulting in STEP ACROSS THE BORDER (1990), MIDDLE OF THE MOMENT (1995), the filmtryptich THREE WINDOWS (1999) and BROTHER YUSEF (2005). In 2009 he moves to Japan, working on the documentaries WHILE WE KISS THE SKY (2015) as well as ZEN FOR NOTHING (2015).
Tucked away in the mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A young woman sets off to immerse herself from autumn to spring in the adventures of monastic life. The young woman is Sabine Timoteo from Berne. The abbot of the monastery is Muho Nölke from Berlin. An interplay between the philosophy of the Japanese Zen master Kodo Sawaki and the surprises brought forth by everyday life.
Werner Penzel
Zen For Nothing
C O M I N G S O O N
EXPECTEDSPRING
2016
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Almost There Jacqueline Zünd In Production Planned for Summer 2016
Calabria Pierre-François Sauter In Production Planned for Spring 2016
Eldorado Markus Imhoof In Production Planned for Summer 2016
Fell In Love With A Girl Kaleo La Belle In Production Planned for Summer 2016
Jean Ziegler – Le combat du monstre Nicolas Wadimoff In Production Planned for Spring 2016
The Chinese Lives Of Uli Sigg Michael Schindhelm In Production Planned for Spring 2016
Wild Plants Nicolas Humbert In Production Planned for Spring 2016
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+++ Visit us at our stands at the Berlinale European Film Market EFM, Cannes Village International, Festival del film Locarno and Toronto International Film Festival +++