Format: 16mm B/W
Direction: Fabio Ufheil
Screenplay: Fabio Ufheil
Production company: tbd
“There is a place by the sea where concrete blocks fall from the sky at the mercy of the waves.
There is a place by the sea where history leaves its traces, unforgettable, unforgivable.
There is a place by the sea where bodies meet, replacing memory with ecstasy.”
Format: Cinema Documentary
Direction: Luisa Ricar, Marisa Meier
Screenplay: Marisa Meier, Luisa Ricar, Maia Arson Crimew
Production company: Ensemble Film
Switzerland’s best-known hacker Maia Arson Crimew successfully fights injustice online. However, with the FBI breathing down her neck, a life on the breadline and her mental health, she is confronted with a difficult question: can she be healthy and happy in the long term? The trans woman’s doomed search for a place in a binary society.
Format: Feature film
Direction: Dorentina Imeri
Screenplay: Dorentina Imeri
Production company: tbd
Odeta wants a divorce. Male relatives from both sides meet to discuss the matter in accordance with Albanian customary law. In the end, the parties come to an agreement and vote against divorce.
In the Albanian community, divorce remains a taboo subject that is tainted with guilt and shame – but this affects women in particular. The decision to divorce is not in their hands, but is made exclusively by the male members of the family. My mother also had this experience when she tried to divorce my father in Switzerland.
In a closed room (huis-clos), PALËT deals with non-verbal communication and complex relationships of dependency in order to illustrate the silent imprisonment of the main character and her silent resistance. PALËT is dedicated to all women who rebel against the oppressive, traditional system in the Albanian community and free themselves from patriarchal shackles.
Format: Feature-length documentary
Direction: Raphaël Harari
Screenplay: Raphaël Harari
Production company: Point Prod
After discovering boxes full of family archives, the director, who has always been in search of his roots, decides to investigate his father’s story – the story of an exile he wanted to forget. That of the Egyptian Jews who had to flee the country in 1953 under Nasser’s regime. An intimate and complex investigation that will also shed light on a key period in the Middle East.
Format: Feature-Length Drama
Direction: Tbc
Screenplay: Marina Wutholen & Tbc
Production company: Dev.tv
A feature-length drama combining live action and artificial intelligence, The New Khan illustrates the true story of a young Afghan activist who dreams of leading her country. A tribal leader at the age of 23, she survives an attack and flees Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to run her clandestine schools for girls from the US. She returns home under a false identity on a secret mission.
Format: TV series, 6 x 45′
Direction: tbd
Screenplay: Fanny Nussbaumer
Production company: Filmgerberei
Between manicured front gardens and armed bunkers – the double life of the Swiss secret army P-26.
Format: Tabletop Story RPG
Game Design: Tabea Iseli, Stefan Schmidlin, Jeremy Spillmann
Two-Stroke Hearts is a character-driven road trip role-playing game centred around Switzerland’s overland motorcycle culture of the nineties. Slip into the role of a group of teenagers who set off on their motorcycles during the summer holidays, heading for the hills in the direction of the capital. Experience the crazy adventures of the era together, unmask Swiss folklore monsters and, who knows, maybe even find each other.
Format: Tactical role-playing game
Studio: Stardust
Production company: tbd
A tactical role-playing game about magical girls, fighting nightmares and making new friends. Based on the cornerstones of the popular game genre, the creative process explores the conventions of friendships and love and the representation of LGBTQIA+ in video games.
Format: Experimental Documentary (Full-Length)
Direction: Stella Belinda Bohn & Urša Kastelic
Screenplay: Stella Belinda Bohn & Urša Kastelic With Three Protagonists
Production company: tbd
Resilient Echoes is a collective documentary that portrays people with chronic pain. He shows different types of resistance used to deal with the pain and survive in this society. The experimental film is a co-creation project developed and designed together with the protagonists.
Format: Game
Direction/Production: Anja Reiss, Raphael Perret
Storytelling: Anja Reiss, Raphael Perret
Production company: Studio ZB
Truth Detectives – true crime with real content. Use your gaming skills to make a difference and uncover the truth about human rights violations by solving strategic mini-puzzles. Learn tricks from real investigators and apply them in real-life conflict scenarios. Like GeoGuessr without the guessing.