Sweat, Memory

Facts & Figures

  • Format: 16mm B/W
  • Direction: Fabio Ufheil
  • Screenplay: Fabio Ufheil
  • Production company: –

Story

“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.”

Tiny Kitten vs. 2nary System

Facts & Figures

  • Format: cinema documentary
  • Direction: Luisa Ricar, Marisa Meier
  • Screenplay: Marisa Meier, Luisa Ricar, Maia Arson Crimew
  • Production company: Ensemble Film

Story

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.

Palët

Facts & Figures

  • Format: feature film
  • Direction: Dorentina Imeri
  • Screenplay: Dorentina Imeri
  • Production company: tbd

Story

A meeting of male relatives is convened to discuss and vote on the dissolution of a marriage.

L’affaire Mussa

Facts & Figures

  • Format: feature-length documentary
  • Direction: Raphaël Harari
  • Screenplay: Raphaël Harari
  • Production company: Point Prod

Story

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.

The New Khan

Facts & Figures

  • Format: feature-length drama
  • Direction: tbc
  • Screenplay: Marina Wutholen & tbc
  • Production company: Dev.tv

Story

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.

P-26

Facts & Figures

  • Format: TV series, 6 x 45′
  • Direction: tbd
  • Screenplay: Fanny Nussbaumer
  • Production company: Filmgerberei

Story

Between manicured front gardens and armed bunkers – the double life of the Swiss secret army P-26.

Two-Stroke Hearts

Facts & Figures

  • Format: tabletop story RPG
  • Game Design: Tabea Iseli, Stefan Schmidlin, Jeremy Spillmann

Story

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.

Magical Dream Guardians

Facts & Figures

  • Format: tactical role-playing game
  • Studio: Stardust
  • Production company: –

Story

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.

Resilient Echoes

Facts & Figures

  • Format: experimental documentary (full-length)
  • Direction: Stella Belinda Bohn & Urša Kastelic
  • Screenplay: Stella Belinda Bohn & Urša Kastelic with three protagonists
  • Production company: tbd

Story

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.

Truth Detectives

Facts & Figures

  • Format: game
  • Direction/Production: Anja Reiss, Raphael Perret
  • Storytelling: Anja Reiss, Raphael Perret
  • Production company: Studio ZB

Story

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.