Wake-Up

Facts & Figures

  • Format: youth series, mystery, survival, suspense, drama – parallel evaluation radio play and TV/streaming
  • Direction: Karin Heberlein
  • Screenplay: Angela Gilges, Karin Heberlein
  • Production company: tbd

Story

A catastrophic collision between two trains in the Gotthard tunnel brings the lives of six teenagers together. They escape from the burning wreckage into a breathtaking high valley. The initial euphoria of survival soon turns into ever-increasing uncertainty. All that remains is to walk down into the valley, but with every step, the world around them becomes stranger…

Début sans fin

Facts & Figures

  • Format: feature film
  • Direction: Tove Stille
  • Screenplay: Tove Stille (Vera von Gunten, Tomas Schweigen)
  • Production company: tbd

Story

Two friends in their late 60s rebel against society’s stereotypes about the elderly and look for flatmates of the same age to form a hedonistic activist flat share. In fact, the newspaper advertisement becomes the starting point of a supra-regional political and social movement – until the common goals tragically fade into the background.

Crypto

Facts & Figures

  • Format: long feature documentary
  • Direction: Aldo Gugolz
  • Screenplay: Aldo Gugolz
  • Production company: Revolumenfilm

Story

An employee of a Swiss company is blown up in his car in the Middle East. He worked for a Swiss company that had been meddling in world history for decades. Documentary research on the abuse of trust.

Amada Libertad

Facts & Figures

  • Format: animated documentary
  • Direction: Celina Escher
  • Screenplay: Celina Escher
  • Production company: Roundabout Film GmbH

Story

Amada Libertad tells the story of the young poet Leyla Quintana, who fought against the military dictatorship during the civil war in El Salvador. She processed her experiences in hundreds of poems. She died in the war, but her poems are still a symbol of strength and emancipation today. To tell the facets of her story, the film is being realized as an animated documentary.

Symphonie des profondeurs

Facts & Figures

  • Format: VR
  • Direction: Cinzia Fossati and Laurence Moletta
  • Production company: Hélène Faget – Tell me the Story. 

Story

“Symphonie des Profondeurs” (which translates as – symphony of the deep) is a multiplayer interactive virtual reality experience, which invites participants to discover the underwater world through the senses of a whale, using echolocation. What if you were a whale…?