Film Archive

Extended Reality 2022
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[Posthuman Wombs]
Anna Fries, Malu Peeters
This auto-theoretical essay explores the womb of a posthuman, questioning stereotypical ideas of pregnancy and speculating about non-binary reproduction scenarios.
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[Posthuman Wombs]

[Posthuman Wombs]
Anna Fries, Malu Peeters
Extended Reality 2022
XR
Germany,
Netherlands,
Switzerland
2021
20 minutes
English

The stereotypical idea of pregnancy is a challenge for persons who do not define themselves as female only. This auto-theoretical essay explores the future of the family and non-binary reproduction scenarios in which all bodies can become pregnant. We travel into the womb of a posthuman and follow speculations about the de-feminisation of childbearing.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Anna Fries, Malu Peeters
Animation
Lisa Kaschubat, Manuel Tozzi
VR Developer
Ambrus Ivanyos
3D Artist
Lisa Kaschubat, Manuel Tozzi, Danielle Williams
Creative Technologist
Ambrus Ivanyos
Sound
Malu Peeters
Script
Anna Fries
Score
Malu Peeters
Performer
Brandy Butler, Anna Fries, Olivia Hyunsin Kim, Ncube as Bibi, Fercha Pombo, Kübra Uzun, Wheelymum
Director
Anna Fries, Malu Peeters
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Anscht

Anscht
Matthias Huber
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Switzerland
2022
3 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A lovingly designed mini-drama about a droll puppet with a button nose and jug ears in scary situations we all remember from our childhood. The horror on the one-metre board under which a bottomless abyss is yawning. The panic when the door of a public toilet won’t open. Every scene illustrates children’s fears, and we don’t laugh about a little man in distress but about ourselves.

Anke Leweke

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Director
Matthias Huber
Script
Matthias Huber
Cinematographer
Matthias Huber
Editor
Matthias Huber
Producer
Fred Truniger
Sound
Matthias Huber, Thomas Gassmann, Dieter Hebben
Score
Matthias Huber
Animation
Matthias Huber
World Sales
Chantal Molleur
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
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Armat

Armat
Élodie Dermange
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Switzerland
2022
11 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English

A young Swiss woman searches for her Armenian roots. Various lovingly animated drawers of the simultaneously accumulating family archive open. This very personal examination of collective traumas of post-migrant communities finds images and words for racism and the difficulties of talking about feelings with male family members. Its leitmotif is a wardrobe roaming through night-blue landscapes which – despite the cracks – holds everything and everyone together.

Samuel Döring

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Director
Élodie Dermange
Cinematographer
Élodie Dermange
Editor
Aurélie Sprenger
Producer
Nicolas Burlet
Sound
Jérôme Vittoz
Score
Sam Shalabi
Animation
Élodie Dermange, Sofia El Rhyari, Yaeka Tabara
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Kids DOK 2022
Filmstill Bémol
Bémol
Oana Lacroix
The featherless nightingale has the most beautiful voice in the forest. All the animals enjoy her singing. When autumn comes and she catches a cold, she suddenly can’t sing any more.
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Bémol

Bémol
Oana Lacroix
Kids DOK 2022
Animated Film
Switzerland
2021
5 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Oh dear, the nightingale has no feathers! The other birds are laughing at her because she can’t fly. Her singing, however, lulls the little bear to sleep. Even the squirrels stop fighting and listen. When autumn comes and the nightingale catches a cold, she feels much too sick to sing. The other animals will have to come up with something …

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Oana Lacroix
Cinematographer
Oana Lacroix
Editor
Oana Lacroix
Producer
Nicolas Burlet
Sound
Jérôme Vittoz
Score
Jérôme Vittoz
Animation
Oana Lacroix
Filmstill Kusunda

Kusunda

Kusunda
Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran
Extended Reality 2022
XR
Germany,
Nepal,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Taiwan
2021
23 minutes
English,
Nepali,
Kusunda

The Nepalese shaman Lil Bahadur and his granddaughter Hima have dedicated themselves to the revival of his native language, Kusunda. It’s about more than communication, namely identity, tradition and awareness of one’s own history. The interactive voice-control of this VR experience allows us to learn Kusunda ourselves. We learners become human archives of an all but lost indigenous language.

Lars Rummel

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Co-Producer
Sönke Kirchhof, Philipp Wenning, Emma Creed, Aliki Tsakoumi, Kuan-Yuan Lai
Executive Producer
René Pinnell
Creative Producer
Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran, Mia von Kolpakow
Production Company
NowHere Media
Animation
Moritz Mayerhofer
VR Developer
Tobias Wehrum
Sound
Mads Michelsen, David Segal
Key Collaborator
Gyani Maiya Kusunda, Lil Bahadur Kusunda, Hima Kusunda
Director
Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran
Kids DOK 2022
Filmstill Lost Brain
Lost Brain
Isabelle Favez
One day the crocodile loses her mind by sneezing and finds herself unable to do the simplest tasks. Meanwhile, everything around her goes black and white. Who can help?
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Lost Brain

Lost Brain
Isabelle Favez
Kids DOK 2022
Animated Film
Switzerland
2021
6 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Louise the crocodile lives in a pretty flat in the city. The elevated train rattles, the coffee hisses on the stove and the walk takes her to a green park. But what is this? When Louise sneezes, all the colours fade away one by one! The crocodile also seems to lose her mind, because suddenly Louise can’t do the simplest tasks. Who can help her?

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Isabelle Favez
Cinematographer
Isabelle Favez
Editor
Jérôme Vittoz
Producer
Nicolas Burlet
Sound
Jérôme Vittoz
Score
Jérôme Vittoz
Animation
Isabelle Favez, Camille Müller
Filmstill No Dogs or Italians Allowed

No Dogs or Italians Allowed

Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens
Alain Ughetto
Opening Film 2022
Animated Film
France,
Italy,
Belgium,
Switzerland,
Portugal
2022
70 minutes
French,
Italian
Subtitles: 
English

Hunger and hardship ruled the Piemontese mountain village of Ughettera at the beginning of the 20th century. The meek peasants complained neither about the parasitic priests nor the tough seasonal winter work in neighbouring France – not even when the Italian state called them to arms and sent them first to Libya, then into the World War. Only when the Fascists arrive did the Ughetto family trade its home for new deprivations and new hopes across the border.

With this imaginatively directed puppet animation, Alain Ughetto has created a warm-hearted memorial to his Italian grandparents Cesira and Luigi. With subtle humour, tenderness and empathy he tells of generations who lived in poverty, but also of happiness and love, fortunes and misfortunes. “You don’t come from a country, you come from your childhood”, Cesira teaches him. The director finds himself in this family chronicle, recognises his predilection for working with his hands. Soon the film becomes a reflection on telling stories with what these hands shaped. They are frequently present in the frame – piling charcoal into a mountain, making forests from broccoli or simply getting handed a cup of damn strong espresso by Cesira.
Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Alain Ughetto
Cinematographer
Fabien Drouet, Sara Sponga
Editor
Denis Leborgne
Producer
Alexandre Cornu
Score
Nicola Piovani
Animation
Marjolaine Parot
World Sales
Clément Chautant
Nominated for: Young Eyes Film Award
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Ramboy

Ramboy
Matthias Joulaud, Lucien Roux
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Switzerland
2022
30 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English

Sixteen-year-old Cian is expected to work at his family’s sheep farm after school. Life there is as rough as the Irish west coast landscape. No time to lie in or play football. Instead, rams must be taken by the horns. In this sensitive coming-of-age study, the camera watches the lanky boy from up close as he learns the challenging craft of shepherding, under his grandfather’s patient and critical eyes.

Daniel Abma

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Director
Matthias Joulaud, Lucien Roux
Cinematographer
Matthias Joulaud, Lucien Roux
Editor
Selin Dettwiler
Producer
Jaber Debzi, Jean-Guillaume Sonnier
Sound
Yatoni Roy Cantu
Score
Yatoni Roy Cantu
Winner of: Special Mention (International Competition Short Film)
Kids DOK 2022
Filmstill The Queen of the Foxes
The Queen of the Foxes
Marina Rosset
The queen of the foxes is sad. To cheer her up, the other foxes look for discarded human love letters. But there’s nothing about beautiful red fur in them …
Filmstill The Queen of the Foxes

The Queen of the Foxes

La reine des renards
Marina Rosset
Kids DOK 2022
Animated Film
Switzerland
2022
9 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
German (Overvoice), English

The foxes of the pack roam through the city every night to cheer up their sad queen. They search the people’s rubbish for unsent love letters. But those ignoramuses write nothing rapturous about furry ears and bushy red coats! The queen stays sad and the foxes must think of something else.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Marina Rosset
Cinematographer
Marina Rosset
Editor
Marina Rosset
Producer
Marina Rosset
Sound
Peter Bräker
Score
Rahel Zimmermann
Animation
Marina Rosset
World Sales
Stine Wangler
Kids DOK 2022
Filmstill The Smortlybacks Come Back!
The Smortlybacks Come Back!
Ted Sieger
In search of fresh water, the Smortlybacks reach the shore of a vast sea. A mysterious creature and their magic fish help them cross the ocean.
Filmstill The Smortlybacks Come Back!

The Smortlybacks Come Back!

The Smortlybacks Come Back!
Ted Sieger
Kids DOK 2022
Animated Film
Switzerland
2022
8 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

The Smortlybacks are peaceful, fantastic-looking creatures, riding through the desert with the leader of their pack: no water, no shrub, no tree in sight! They are all desperate because their water supplies are running out. After a while they reach the shore of a vast sea. A mysterious creature and their magic fish help them cross the ocean.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Ted Sieger
Cinematographer
Wouter Dierickx
Editor
Joder von Rotz
Producer
Josef Burri
Co-Producer
Gerd Gockell
Sound
Thomas Gassmann
Score
Christoph Utzinger
Animation
Marina Rosset, Joder von Rotz, Wouter Dierickx
World Sales
Georg Gruber