The rising son

Facts and figures

Format: ?
Directors: Noah and Stéphane Goël
Screenplay: Noah and Stéphane Goël
Production company : Climage Audiovisuel

STORY

A two-people tale. A father and a son, a cisgender in his fifties and a young transgender man, talk about transition, mourning, confrontation, and renaissance, each with the help of documents in their mobile phones. Photos, videos, written messages or voicemails, notes, music. An intimate documentary journal, which is sincere, tragic and funny and uses the “I” form to express “we”.

Johanna

Facts and figures

Format: hybrid documentary
Director: Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter
Screenplay: Aliner Suter and Céline Carridroit
Production company : Earthling Productions

STORY

Johanna has always worked as a mechanic. On weekends, she works on her old VW beetle in her workshop she has set up in an underground parking lot. During the week, she works in a factory on the outskirts of Geneva, which produces boxes for high-end watches. She is preparing for a race that will take place at the end of the summer. It will be her first one since her gender transition.

Ènebé

Facts and figures

Format: VR
Director: Loïc Valley, Diane Dormet
Screenplay: Loïc Valley, Diane Dormet, Tiago Branquino (co-author), Eric Bouduban (co-author)
Production company : Imajack Films

STORY

Ènebé is a documentary experience in VR on genre non-dualities that adapt to the person experiencing them. Through discussions with experts and personally involved individuals, this project deals with topics such as culture, health, legislation, interpersonal relationships, language, education, and inclusion.

En roue libre

Facts and figures

Format: Feature-length documentary
Director: Matias Carlier
Screenplay: Matias Carlier
Production company : Bande à part Films

STORY

Noah, a 13-year-old from western Switzerland in a difficult phase of his life, is a fan of wheeling. His dream is to go to Paris and take part in a huge race. This film portrays a stage in his life, characterised by transformations and “first times”.

zärtlich (at)

Facts and figures

Project title (WT): zärtlich (wt)
Format: film/theatre
Screenplay and direction: Alejandra Jenni

STORY

Starting from the sexuality of a young woman, the three-part film intends to create a utopia about tenderness. The main character searches for her desire, intimacy at eye level, and the possibility of a world full of tenderness.  In the second part, she thus leaves the classic film setting and enters an abstract theatre room, where she prepares the utopia for part 3. 

Papierschloss

Facts and Figures

Format: documentary animation film, approx. 15 min.
Director: Luise Hüsler
Screenplay: Luise Hüsler
Production company: ASAKO Film

STORY

Four young people from Zurich tell their story. The four of them have something in common: the same secret. They actively co-design the avatars that represent them in the animated documentary. They decide on their individual hairstyle, hair and skin colour. The four illegal immigrants describe moments they experienced, they fantasise and ask each other questions.

Legal Guilt

©Peter Schulthess

Facts and Figures

Project title (WT): Legal Guilt
Format: series
Idea and shot list template: Dario Schoch, Philippe Grob
Production company: Catpics AG

STORY

In legal circles, defence lawyers are considered “the wild ones”: their clients are often troublemakers and their hours of work irregular. In the public eye, they represent the “guilty parties”. The public prosecutor and the police are clearly superior in terms of personnel. We accompany four women lawyers in a male-dominated world and learn that a good defence ultimately makes all the difference.

Extra Muros

Facts and Figures

Format: Feature
Director: Max Wuchner
Screenplay Max Wuchner
Production company Niza Lou Waldburger

STORY

In a near future marked by the climate crisis, all cars are banned from the city centre. The Hydra taxi app breaks down and Pi, a young driver submerged in passivity, has to flee and find a way to delete her digital identity.
Her story is told in a feature, in which future, present, fiction and reality merge.

EXCEL IN THE CITY (AT)

Facts & Figures

Format: web series
Director: open
Screenplay: Stefania Akrabova, Virginia Rusch, Benjamin Blum, Remo Reichmuth
Production company: open

STORY

The weekly Excel evening class is a vessel for certificate hunters, inquisitive attendants, self-optimisers, or simply bored people looking for a change. A colourful palette of people who would probably never have met otherwise find themselves together in a sterile course room: A comic portrayal of a dysfunctional family.

Doing Good

Facts & Figures

Project: Doing Good
Format: TV series
Screenplay: Katja Meier
Production company: TBD

STORY

Logline: When, after some disclosures in the Paradise Papers, the heiress of a Swiss commodity trading company suddenly decides to donate her entire fortune, her good intentions are thwarted by the resistance from her own family, media criticism and opaque processes in the aid sector.