Heist Schoolers is an interactive slasher. Paying homage to the slasher films of the 80s and 90s, a colourful cast of characters will dive headfirst into the most obvious traps – but this time, you can intervene.
When she goes back with her family to their holiday home in Italy for the first time following a serious accident, Nina, 23 years old, explores the connection with her new body. Nina’s story will be reworked collectively whilst living at the film location, with the lead actress, the director of photography and the author-creator.
According to Aristophanes, the human condition is characterized by the quest for our lost half (a part of us that was separated from us before we were born). We are therefore desperately seeking to satisfy our desire for completeness. This is exactly where addiction lies: between absence and desire. In order to better understand this yearning, the film delves into the life of an addiction medicine service.
Caption: Film still from Urgence by Raymond Depardon
“Ose” (“Daring”) is a choral film that gives a voice to a group of young women regarding the construction of their own femininity and their self-affirmation in a public space under the scrutiny of others. Between day and night, between the individual and the group, between those who dare and those who dare not.
A video game will be used to interactively experience the themes and the results of the development process for the documentary film Die wundersame Verwandlung der Arbeiterklasse in Ausländer (The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class into Foreigners) by film director Samir. Six game ideas have already been developed. Now, playable prototypes are to be created from two ideas and eventually a demo from one of the prototypes.
“Work in progress. Further information to follow.”
Henry Halfhead is an innovative narrative sandbox adventure game, and tells a story about playfulness in everyday life. Players take control of Henry, a small creature with the ability to transform into anything that is nearby. Henry uses this ability to master life as everyday objects: Henry waters plants as a watering can, cuts an apple as a knife, or draws colorful pictures as a crayon.
KAUKASUS (CAUCASUS) centers on personal narratives about romantic love. Various protagonists tell of longing, estrangement, happiness, separations, and of long periods of silence. What do these love stories say about the people in them and about the times and the world we live in? What do the love stories reveal about the approaching war and how, in turn, does this conflict affect the way these people love?
A tale about the barter business.
As the saying goes: What I don’t have, I want, and what I have, I don’t want!
Short description: climate fiction project with ecofeminist vision of the future. The year is 2064 and climate change has turned the entire food supply of Switzerland upside down. Crop scientist Hiwot is desperate to find a solution to escalating world hunger when she becomes the pawn of opportunistic corporations and radical resistance.