
FILM STUDIES
Documentary film workshop with Guillaume Brac
Studio project with Guillaume Brac
The 2022 documentary workshop was lead by Guillaume Brac. In partnership with the Lausanne Sport!
This programme is for students passionate about all genres of film and moving image (fiction, documentary, experimental movie, institutional film, TV programme, video clip and advertising). Although training in directing – including personal scriptwriting – remains central, this Bachelor course also provides extensive multidisciplinary skills in the various film-making professions (scriptwriter, director of photography, editor, sound recordist, mixer…).
Through lectures and workshops provided by renowned figures of the discipline, the students perfect their skills in fields as varied as stage direction, actor direction, scriptwriting or production. Commissions by institutions or companies ensure that students are confronted with an actual working environment. Often presented in festivals the world over and broadcast on national and foreign TV channels, ECAL films are regularly awarded distinctions. Additionally, the students benefit from theoretical courses and multidisciplinary conferences on the ECAL premises.
The skills acquired during the Bachelor curriculum allow students to explore and submit a portfolio of varied films, enabling them to then sign up for various film-making professions, to produce art house films or advertisements, and to work in television, production companies or festivals. The students may also further their knowledge in their preferred field by embarking on the Master in Cinema at ECAL or a similar programme in another institution.
French
Bachelor of Arts HES-SO in Visual Communication, major in Film
CHF 2425.-
6 semesters
180 ECTS
1/5
1/2
From the second year onwards, students specialise in one of six possible options: Direction – Screenplay – Photography – Edition – Script Supervison – Sound
For all options
1/3
The whole year is devoted to the making of the graduation film (free work, fiction, documentary film, experimental film, etc.).
FILM STUDIES
Studio project with Guillaume Brac
The 2022 documentary workshop was lead by Guillaume Brac. In partnership with the Lausanne Sport!
FILM STUDIES
Studio project
ECAL and the Centre culturel suisse, Paris present the films made during the "Selfportrait and violence" workshop led by Mio Rau (playwright and theatre director at NTGhent Theatre) and Giacomo Bisordi (playwright and director).
FILM STUDIES
Studio project with Kaveh Bakhtiari
- Selected at IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) 2014 - Selected at International Clermont-Ferrand Shortfilm Festival 2015 Synopsis A choir teacher, pupils of the Lyon Conservatory. Their face-to-face confrontation: a rehearsal, the second to last before the end of the year show. Commentaire Le temps d’un cours de chant, un maître tente de hisser le niveau de ses élèves vers l’audible. Entre la lutte chamanique du professeur et les corps fébriles des adolescents, un territoire inaccessible devient possible. Les souffles archaïques se font harmonie, Robert Schumann n’est alors plus une simple évocation mais une invocation par des adolescents en mutation, captifs entre deux mondes. Kaveh Bakhtiari Rehearsal on Swissfilms.ch
FILM STUDIES
Studio project with Sébastien Lifshitz
Martin has just been dumped and spends the night hanging out with David, a friend he hasn’t seen for a long time.
FILM STUDIES
Studio project with Denis Gheerbrant
Happyland, an amusement park in Switzerland, surrounded by mountains. A film on the people who work there, two women: one young and the other less so.
FILM STUDIES
Studio project with Sébastien Lifshitz
Ismail and his sister are driving back from the airport. The young man has just arrived in a new country, Switzerland, whilst his sister has been here for a couple of month.
FILM STUDIES
Studio project with Denis Gheerbrant
This is the testimonial of a friendship between the director and his friend Mirko, with whom he spent his childhood playing with "Playmobil"-figures in a fantasy world.
FILM STUDIES
Studio project with Sébastien Lifshitz
Jules is a young man, he is twenty one years old. His grand father is about to die. He is afraid to loose him. He decide to go and find a Rabin his grandfather used to know. During this travel, Jules mourns and grows up.
FILM STUDIES
Studio project with Sébastien Lifshitz
A mother and daughter, two Portuguese immigrants. An evening watching series. The atmosphere becomes suffocating.
FILM STUDIES
Studio project with Dominique Marchais
Two young women live together in a brothel. The camera captures their daily life in their hours away from work.
FILM STUDIES
Studio project with Frédéric Mermoud
Sissi and Victoria are sisters. Whereas the younger is slowly emerging from the world of childhood, the elder tries in vain to be grown up. In the room that they share, Sissi is preparing for her gymnastic compétition and Victoria has boys coming and going...
FILM STUDIES
Studio project with Jean-Stéphane Bron
A son, a father. The first one holds a camera; the second one holds the title ambassador. The camera trembles, the ambassador remains.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma project with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Beni, a young woman with bipolar disorder, forms a musical friendship with her 65-year-old neighbour Gégé.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma project with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
In the desert of southern Spain, a film designed to bring together animal and human emotions through the trauma of abandonment.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma project with Emmanuel Bourdieu
Two women come down from the top of a mountain, following a great disappointment.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma project with Céline Bozon
For my end-of-study work, I had to design the photography for a graduation film.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma project with Céline Bozon
My diploma project consisted in accompanying the production of a short fiction film as a cinematographer. I was in charge of the camera and the lighting on the set.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma project with Céline Bozon
Strongly attracted to cinematography in documentaries, I did the photography for Olivia Calcaterra’s short documentary film for her degree.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma project with Céline Bozon
For my degree, I did the photography of the short film Les mouches de Beni, directed by Alice-Denyse Matthey.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma project with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
A young caregiver uses her imagination to cope with the mourning of her mother and to escape from the nursing home where she works.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma project with Julie Lupo
As a script supervisor, I worked with the director on her film, from the writing stage to the shooting.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma project with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Karim and Adin are childhood friends. They haven't seen each other for a long time and get together for a drink to make up for lost time.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma project with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Luna returns to the family home where still lives her younger sister, Diana. Diana has been living alone in this large, dilapidated house since the death of their father.
FILM STUDIES
Diploma project with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
On the eve of Y2K, Christine finally introduces her lover, Mina, to her parents. The evening promises to be strange.
Film director of documentaries or fiction, Director of photography, Editor, Sound mixer, Sound engineer, Scriptwriter, Producer, Teacher…
(BA and MA Cinéma) Fabrice Aragno, Kaveh Bakhtiari, Claude Barras, Fulvio Bernasconi, Jean-Stéphane Bron, Frédéric Choffat, Blaise Harrison, Marie-Eve Hildbrand, Nathan Hofstetter, Frédéric Mermoud, Klaudia Reynicke, Lila Ribi, Christophe M. Saber, Rafael Sommerhalder, Karine Sudan, Mathieu Urfer…
Head
Paolo Moretti
Academic deputy
Rachel Noël
Administrative deputy
Laurence Wegener
Production & distribution
Jean-Guillaume Sonnier
Post-production assistants
Jules Pourchet
Paul Pourchet
Academic assistant
Adèle Beaulieu
Lionel Baier
François Bovier
Pauline Gygax
Rachel Noël
Benoît Rossel
Elsa Amiel
Darren Aronofsky
Frédéric Baillehaiche
Jeanne Balibar
Renato Berta
Susanne Bier
Emmanuel Bourdieu
Céline Bozon
Guillaume Brac
Claire Burger
Emmanuel Carrère
Benjamin Charbit
Monia Chokri
Joel Coen
Camille Cottagnoud
Donatienne de Gorostarzu
Thierry de Peretti
Stéphane Demoustier
Claire Denis
Josée Deshaies
Laetitia Dosch
Jean Dujardin
Annette Dutertre
Abel Ferrara
Thierry Frémaux
Kōji Fukada
Pauline Gaillard
Hippolyte Girardot
Agnès Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
Yann Gonzalez
Laurent Guido
Adèle Haenel
Blaise Harrison
Michel Hazanavicius
Werner Herzog
Agnès Jaoui
Denis Jutzeler
LECTURES
Invited by ECAL Cinema Department, French director and screenwriter Céline Sciamma present a Masterclass on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, moderated by Paolo Moretti, head of the Cinema department, and Valentina Novati, French producer and distributor.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
On the occasion of the 58th Solothurn Film Festival, which takes place from January 18 to 25, 2023, ECAL Film Department presents several films by students and graduates.
LECTURES
Invited by ECAL Cinema Department, the Catalan director Albert Serra will present a Masterclass on Tuesday, December 20, 2022, moderated by Paolo Moretti, head of Bachelor and Master Cinema.
LECTURES
Invited by ECAL Cinema Department, Mexican director Tatiana Huezo presents a Masterclass on Monday, November 28, 2022, followed by the screening of her first feature film Noche de fuego and a Q&A.
LECTURES
ECAL Instagram Live: Jean-Luc Godard, fillmmaker, Rolle
LECTURES
On the occasion of the release of his book Il y a bien longtemps, dans une salle de montage lointaine, très lointaine..., Paul Hirsch presents at ECAL his autobiography. A meeting led by Benoît Rossel (film director and teacher at ECAL) and Mykyta Kryvosheiev (film editor and Master Cinema ECAL/HEAD graduate).
OTHER
On the occasion of the 75th edition of the Locarno Film Festival from 3 to 13 August 2022, many graduates of ECAL/Universityof Art and Design Lausanne will present movies:
LECTURES
ECAL Masterclass at Visions du Réel: Marco Bellocchio – Director, screenwriter, producer, Rome.
LECTURES
On the occasion of the 5th edition of the Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne, an event initiated by the Swiss actor and director Vincent Perez, ECAL is hosting a series of online masterclasses by leading figures in the film industry.
OTHER
The Swiss Cinematheque and the ECAL Film Department invite you to an evening of support for the Ukrainian people on Friday 11th March at 7pm at ECAL.
LECTURES
ECAL Masterclass: Nabil Ayouch – Director, Sarcelles/Casablanca
PROJECTION
On the occasion of the Solothurn Days from 19 to 26 January 2022, ECAL Cinema Department presents several Bachelor diploma films by students.
LECTURES
ECAL Masterclass: Mathieu Amalric, actor, director, Paris
OTHER
Screening of the 2021 graduation films of the ECAL's Bachelor's degree in Cinema on Wednesday 3 November 2021 at Cinémathèque suisse in the presence of the students.
LECTURES
ECAL Masterclass: Abel Ferrara – Filmmaker and screenwriter, Rome
PROJECTION
Screening of ECAL films at the Swiss Culture Centre, Paris. ECAL and the Centre culturel suisse. Paris present the films made during the "Selfportrait and violence" workshop led by Mio Rau (playwright and theatre director at NTGhent Theatre) and Giacomo Bisordi (playwright and director).
LECTURES
ECAL Masterclass: Gisèle Vienne – Artist, choregrapher and theater director, Les Lilas
LECTURES
A l’occasion de la 4e édition des Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne, l’ECAL propose une série de masterclasses en ligne de personnalités du Cinéma.