Film Archive

Kids DOK 2020
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The Little Bird and the Bees
Lena von Döhren
What’s this? The little bird wonders about its buzzing neighbour and stumbles after the bee across the meadows. But watch out, the fox is already lurking behind a tree!
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The Little Bird and the Bees

Der kleine Vogel und die Bienen
Lena von Döhren
Kids DOK 2020
Animated Film
Switzerland
2020
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

It’s spring and the little bird discovers the first leaves on his tree. Already the buds open and the bee comes buzzing. Curious, the little bird stumbles after it and almost overlooks the fox who is growling hungrily again. After the farting caterpillar last year, the bird can now be happy about a new companion.

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Director
Lena von Döhren
Script
Lena von Döhren
Editor
Fee Liechti
Producer
Gerd Gockell
Co-Producer
SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Score
Martin Waespe
Animation
Lena von Döhren
World Sales
Georg Gruber
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Fulesee

Fulesee
Christina Benz
International Competition Short Film 2020
Animated Film
Switzerland
2019
4 minutes
Swiss German
Subtitles: 
English

With darkness comes fear, and with fear the light disappears. During a dive together, sunken memories rise in “him”. And just like the process of sedimentation, when the lake “rots”, the open water becomes a swamp. Growing anxiety accelerates the breath to the rhythm of the increasingly intense lyrical language. Meanwhile the power of the vortices and expressive Swiss-German tone serve to tint and shape this captivatingly graphical sand animation.

André Eckardt

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Director
Christina Benz
Script
Patric Marino
Cinematographer
Christina Benz
Editor
Christina Benz, Christine Rüfenacht
Producer
Marco Leisi
Co-Producer
Gabriela Bloch Steinmann
Sound
Christof Steinmann
Score
Oli Kuster
Animation
Christina Benz
Re-Visions 2020
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Hello
Jonas Raeber
A plaid man, a friendly hello, a praise of travelling to the South – followed by an animated escalation of everything that long needed to be said.
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Hello

Grüezi
Jonas Raeber
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
Switzerland
1995
3 minutes
Swiss German
Subtitles: 
German

A short yes and a long but. A man in a plaid shirt says a friendly hello and rhapsodizes about travelling to southern countries. But when he returns, he finds those southern foreigners have been swept, yes, into Switzerland. That’s not good. Not good at all! Every sentence fires up the next. The longer his hate-rant lasts, the redder and madder the otherwise friendly plaid man grows.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Jonas Raeber
Script
Jonas Raeber
Producer
Jonas Raeber
Sound
Daniel Bühler
Animation
Jonas Raeber
Production Company
SWAMP Animation Luzern
Kids DOK 2020
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Souvenir
Paloma Canonica, Cristina Vilches Estella
Father and daughter climb up high, glide through water, travel over land, fly through the air and into space. A film about collecting souvenirs.
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Souvenir

Souvenir
Paloma Canonica, Cristina Vilches Estella
Kids DOK 2020
Animated Film
Spain,
Switzerland
2020
14 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

The day begins for father and daughter. They climb beyond their treehouse, glide over and under water, cross blooming landscapes, travel through the air and fly on into space. By ship, bicycle, balloon or on foot. A film about travelling, collecting souvenirs in passing and the question of what’s left at the end of a life.

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Director
Paloma Canonica, Cristina Vilches Estella
Script
Cristina Vilches Estella, Alicia Bayona Casas, Paloma Canonica
Cinematographer
Alicia Bayona Casas, Cristina Vilches Estella, Paloma Canonica
Editor
Cristina Vilches Estella
Producer
Cristina Vilches Estella, Paloma Canonica
Sound
Cristina Vilches Estella, Eric Martín Álvarez
Score
Sofía Oriana Infante
Animation
Cristina Vilches Estella, Paloma Canonica
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Their Algeria

Leur Algérie
Lina Soualem
International Competition 2020
Documentary Film
Algeria,
France,
Switzerland,
Qatar
2020
70 minutes
Arabic,
French
Subtitles: 
English

After 62 years of marriage Aïcha Soualem is on her own again. Mabrouk, whom she has left, is nevertheless supplied by her daily with food and sugar cubes. Director Lina Soualem is interested in the relationship between her grandparents, who, as the last remaining Algerians in Thiers, France, look back on an eventful past. An empathic investigation all the way back to their native village of Laaouamer which leaves room for ambiguous emotions.

“Soualem” is the password which not only enables Lina Soualem to unlock the tiny, snow-covered village full of cousins in Algeria, which her grandparents left a long time ago. In a sense, “Soualem” is also the title of this gentle investigation of a granddaughter. And Laaouamer, that little place in Algeria, is only the final destination of a long journey which may be narrated via geographical coordinates but interweaves them closely with biographical and emotional ones. Aïcha and Mabrouk rarely talk about themselves. Instead, self-affixed wall badges speak: “The world’s best mom lives here” or “Welcome to the world’s best grandma’s”. To learn more about the couple, whose lives were shaped by French colonialism, Lina Soualem uses private photos and videos. Her investigation is full of love: persistent, but never prying.
Carolin Weidner

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Director
Lina Soualem
Editor
Gladys Joujou
Producer
Marie Balducchi
Co-Producer
Karima Chouikh, Palmyre Badinier
Score
Julie Tribout, Rémi Durel
World Sales
Anna Berthollet
Nominated for: Prize of the Interreligious Jury, FIPRESCI Prize