9.11.2023, 14:30, Maxx 1, Free entry
EN UT + Q&A
Kurzfilmtage’s annual Swiss Film School Day is a showcase of Switzerland’s five major undergraduate degree programmes. Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD), the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and the Lucerne School of Art and Design (Video/Animation) present a selection of their recent short films.
The jury of the Swiss Competition gives feedback to the students and awards the prize for the Best Swiss School Film.
Beutset (L’Aurore)
Alicia Mendy / Switzerland/Switzerland 2023 / 28' / DCP / colour / Wolof / Fic
After a parasite has contaminated all of Dakar's drinking water supply, a private pharmaceutical company develops pills to neutralize it. Meanwhile, a poor young man can no longer afford his pills. As the days pass without his treatment, he realizes that he had never been so lucid before.
Térébenthine
Camille Anker / Switzerland 2023 / 10'20" / colour / French / Fic
A painter in his studio, looking back on the strange times of a childhood spent with a blind sister.
Wo die wilden Bienen wohnen
Pascal Kohler / Switzerland 2023 / 9'5" / colour / no dialogue / Doc
Wild bees usually live solitary lives in nests they have created themselves, where they prepare a breeding ground for their offspring. Many coexist with one plant, for which they are morphologically equipped in order to get at the sweet nectar. But they are under threat. Hundreds of thousands of farmed honey bees are buzzing around the yellow flowers, displacing the wild bees. The wild bees' habitat is disappearing. And with them, the plants that have relied on their faithful pollinators for millions of years.
Crevette
Noémi Knobil/Sven Bachmann/Jill Vágner/Elina Cara Huber / Switzerland 2023 / 5'13" / colour / French / Ani/Exp
A young woman faces her fear of pregnancy when she can no longer ignore the presence of the embryo in her freezer.
