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The Landing

Format: Short Film
Direction: Camille Dumond

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«The Landing» (working title) explores the outdoor garden of an administrative detention centre under construction near Geneva airport, dedicated to the examination of asylum applications. The film highlights the site’s ornamental strategy, where the aesthetics of the garden contrast with the centre’s repressive function. Through audio interviews, it explores this reconstructed space, revealing the tensions between the architects’ idealised vision and the reality of a dehumanising system.

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Erich auf dem Papageienberg

Format: Hybrid documentary film (documentary / fiction / essay film)
Direction: Jonathan Jäggi & Tobias Kubli
Screenplay: Jonathan Jäggi & Tobias Kubli
Looking for: Co-producers, financing partners for filming and post-production

Story

In a post-factual world, Capilla del Monte blends UFO myths, esotericism and eurocentric fantasies. Based on Erich von Däniken’s speculative theories, “Erich auf dem Papageienberg” interweaves documentary, fiction and essay film to create a critical exploration of truth and identity.

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La Discorde

Format: Animated Thriller
Direction: Jonathan Laskar
Screenplay: Jonathan Laskar
Production company: Papier perforé / Punched Paper Films

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1990. Returning to Marseille to look after his comatose father, Noam investigates the disappearance of his mother in 1962, whom he never knew. His path crosses that of Amina, a journalist searching for the killers of her family during the Algerian war. Together, they discover that their families’ histories are linked by a fratricidal secret.

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Friendship is Tragic

Format: Game
Team: Asya Fischer, Lea Wild, Arno Justus
Production company: Stray Fawn Studio

Story

“Friendship is Tragic” is an innovative hybrid of visual novel, time management and RPG computer game genres, in which every decision has both game-mechanical and narrative consequences. Players are locked up in a prison and have to interact with various characters, make time for them, befriend them and fight alongside them in order to survive.

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HEI GAH

Format: Feature Film
Direction: Olivia Frey
Screenplay: Olivia Frey

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Tiff and Zoé’s story begins where their mother’s ends. After her suicide, the two half-siblings are in their early twenties and with no parents. The desire for the unknown feeling of parental security leads them on a journey through diffuse places of longing: they encounter questions about belonging and experience hidden dimensions of siblinghood – always accompanied by the feeling of being lost in this far too big and far too complicated world.

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Hello Fascism, my old Friend!

Format: Documentary
Direction: Konstantin Shishkin
Screenplay: Konstantin Shishkin

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When fascism was defeated 80 years ago at an incredible human toll, we told each other “Never again” – today we rub our eyes and have to realise “…and yet again”. The film “Hello Fascism, my old Friend!” deals with the question that has remained stubbornly topical over the centuries in the hopeless violence of European history: how could it come to this?

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La mine à hurlé 22’000 fois

Format: Documentary
Direction: Noa Epars
Screenplay: Noa Epars
Production company: Idip Films

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North of the Arctic Circle, a Swedish town is condemned to exile. The operation of the world’s largest iron ore mine is placing the surrounding area at risk of collapse. Kiruna was born with the mine. It exists only through the mine, and it will die with the mine. The city is gearing up for a major event: soon, on national television, the church will begin its first and last procession.

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Newborns

Format: Serie / Film
Direction: Zamo Mkhwanazi
Screenplay: Zamo Mkhwanazi

Story

The process begins with research covering different countries with different political stances on surrogacy, pregnant teenagers and/or their guardians. This determines whether the story should be made into a series or a film. A workshop with actors that focuses on the physical expression of emotions will characterise the story. A retreat is used to develop a first draft script or a pilot film and a series bible.

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OIA NORA

Format: Short Film
Direction: Tatjana Fanny Honegger
Screenplay: Tatjana Fanny Honegger
Cinematography: Xenia Patricia
Editor: Rafael Manuel
Production company: Cinémamma GmbH, Idle Eye Productions

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Oia (20) has just learnt that she cannot have children. As her older sister Nora’s pregnancy progresses, Oia feels the close bond between the two of them disintegrating. She begins to question her own views on the family paradigm and the personal areas it influences. Set in the idyllic Zurich Oberland, «Oia Nora» is a family portrait that explores the roles we inherit – or resist.

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Prato Pernice

Format: Hybrid Documentary
Direction: Valentina Shasivari
Screenplay: Valentina Shasivari
Production company: tbd
Looking for: Production, co-production

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In the terraced settlement of Prato Pernice, between rock faces and holiday flats, caretaker Nino looks after the sporadically inhabited rooms. The project combines observations of his daily work with subtly staged scenes in which amateur actors appear as temporary residents. Routines, fleeting encounters and smouldering conflicts overlap between the strict geometry of the architecture and the summery inertia of the communal pool – and paint a picture of a fragmented community.