10.11.2022, 20:00, Maxx 1
EN UT + Q&A
11.11.2022, 17:00, Maxx 1
EN UT + Q&A
13.11.2022, 13:30, Kino Cameo
DE UT
Discover national short filmmaking in the Swiss Competition. We also invite audiences to join us for the Award Ceremony on Sunday – watch live as the jury honours the best films of this year’s festival edition.
Stones Don't Fly
Nikita Merlini / Switzerland 2022 / 19'50" / DCP / colour/black & white / Italian / Fic/Doc
In a desert landscape, some children are playing hide-and-seek. The remains of dry stone walls and a few abandoned objects seem to bear witness to a long-evaporated civilization. 5-year-old Francesca's fantasies mingle with the harshness of her environment.
Pipes
Jessica Meier/Kilian Feusi/Sujanth Ravichandran / Switzerland 2022 / 4'2" / DCP / black & white / no dialogue / Ani
Bob the plumber is hired to fix a broken pipe and to his surprise finds himself in a gay fetish club.
Ours
Morgane Frund / Switzerland 2022 / 19'5" / DCP / colour / French/Swiss German/German / Doc
An amateur filmmaker who has filmed bears for years contacts a film school looking for someone to edit his images into a film. A student comes forward. But when she digitizes his archive, she discovers that the recordings are not only of bears. A discussion ensues about the power of the gaze and its voyeuristic violence.
10 Missed Calls
Coline Confort / Switzerland 2022 / 13' / DCP / colour / English / Exp/Doc
Coline's long-distance lover, Naoto, has been sending weekly recordings of himself from his room in Tokyo in the hopes of making a film together and receiving video messages in return.
Incidences
Mischa Hedinger/Michela Flück / Switzerland 2022 / 14'5" / DCP / colour / German / Exp/Fic
A nameless man no longer manages to count further than six. A sequence of tragic-comic moments and strange encounters takes its course. Is the world slipping away from him? Loosely adapted from the work of the avant-garde poet Daniil Kharms (1905–1942).
The Deceased
Philipp Veiga Amaro / Switzerland 2022 / 18'35" / DCP / black & white / Portuguese / Doc
He is known as the deceased, even though he is in no way dead. Philipp, the filmmaker, lived with his father until the age of 16. But he has no memory of him. What exactly happened? He comes across a diary and tries to find answers. He confronts the women in his family and finds his own perspective.