FILM STUDIES
Documentary film workshop with Alessandro Comodin
with Alessandro Comodin
The 2024 documentary film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by french italian director Alessandro Comodin.
The Bachelor's degree in cinema offers an introduction to the many different professions involved in filmmaking. Students are introduced to film writing, directing and acting, as well as shooting, sound, editing and post-production techniques, thanks to rigorous guidance from recognized professionals in all fields.
In addition, a wide variety of theoretical approaches and numerous masterclasses enable students to acquire the analytical tools they need to understand cinema and express their creativity.
Numerous interactions with the film and audiovisual industry, as well as exchanges with partner schools - notably La Fémis - facilitate access to the professional world. Students can then extend their training by pursuing a Master's degree in Cinema at ECAL, or an equivalent program at another institution.
French
Bachelor of Arts HES-SO in Visual Communication, major in Film
6 semesters
180 ECTS
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The 1st year offers a global approach to cinema through collective work. Students are introduced to every stage of the film-making process. This immersion in the world of cinema also includes meetings, trips to film festivals and numerous workshops, all part of a resolutely multidisciplinary approach, both inside and outside the school.
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The 2nd year aims to deepen knowledge and skills in each field by making at least two short films, one fiction, the other documentary, in workshops led by recognized filmmakers. Students also deepen their critical thinking skills by writing a theoretical essay.
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The 3rd year is dedicated to the diploma project, enabling students to acquire specific tools in the fields of directing, scriptwriting, image and sound, as well as teamwork.
Students can specialize in one of six options: Directing - Screenwriting - Photography - Editing - Script Supervision - Sound.
For all options, the entire year is devoted to making the graduation film (free work, fiction, documentary, experimental film, etc.)
Direction OptionFILM STUDIES
with Alessandro Comodin
The 2024 documentary film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by french italian director Alessandro Comodin.
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with Carmen Jaquier
The 2023 fiction film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by swiss director Carmen Jaquier.
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with Lionel Baier
The 2023 fiction film workshop for 1st year students was lead by Lionel Baier.
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with Guillaume Brac, Karen Benainous, Marie-Eve Hildbrand
2nd year students took part in a documentary workshop led by Guillaume Brac, on the theme of friendship.
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with Benoit Rossel, Karin Sudan
1st year students took part in a documentary workshop led by Benoit Rossel, on the theme of the interview.
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with Thierry de Peretti, Claire Mathon, Marion Monnier
The 2022 fiction film workshop was lead by Thierry de Peretti.
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with Guillaume Brac
The 2022 documentary workshop was lead by Guillaume Brac. In partnership with the Lausanne Sport!
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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).
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Knight Borboron is poisoned and wants to apologize to Hildegund before dying.
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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Three young artists search for their place in the world, under the glow of supernova remnants.
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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
What remains of a mother after years of domestic violence? What remains of her body, her dignity and her strength? Surely words, memory and a few dance steps that can still be passed down.
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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
At the end of the night, Gaël will abandon his group of friends. As the evening progresses, however, they realize that something is wrong.
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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Lucy is a young Cro-Magnon woman, a descendant of Lucy the Australopithecus, who lives in a pre-historic, Stone Age, tribe.
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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Guillaume, a young pig farmer, discovers that his father is indulging in bestiality.
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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
In the passenger seat, a young woman waits for the end of the road unfolding beyond the window.
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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Clara is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives alone with her mother in a small isolated house in the forest. Clara is full of vitality, but her depressive mother prevents her from breaking free. An encounter with a mysterious boy in the forest leads Clara to transgress her daily life.
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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
An alienating love between two beings who wish to have a child but cannot.
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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Today, Lea is going in search of a subject for a documentary film. When she believes she's finally caught her prey, the roles end up being reversed. The hunter becomes the hunted.
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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Mila is tired of living in this small town and dreams of elsewhere. But leaving everything behind means even her closest friends.
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with Denis Jutzeler
For my diploma project, I did the cinematography for the bachelor film of my classmate Arsène Fragnière: Cartilage.
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
Anouk Chambaz
Paul Pourchet
Academic assistant
Yan Ciszewski
Lionel Baier
François Bovier
Paolo Moretti
Rachel Noël
Benoît Rossel
PROJECTION
On the occasion of the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, many graduates of ECAL will present movies
PROJECTION
ECAL graduates and students showcase their talent and creativity at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2024 (NIFFF)
LECTURES
ECAL's Cinema department welcomes filmmaker Jessica Hausner for a lecture moderated by Paolo Moretti, head of the Bachelor & Master Cinéma program.
LECTURES
Diego Marcon in conversation with Stéphanie Moisdon, head of the Visual Arts Master's program, and Paolo Moretti, head of the Bachelor & Master Cinema program at ECAL.
PROJECTION
Screening of the Paléo Nyon Festival documentary series produced by students of the ECAL/HEAD Master's in Cinema
LECTURES
On the occasion of the 7th Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne, the ECAL welcomes Greek actress Angeliki Papoulia for a masterclass on Wednesday March 13, 2024.
LECTURES
On the occasion of the 7th Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne, the ECAL welcomes French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski for a masterclass on Monday March 11, 2024.
LECTURES
More than just a production company, El Pampero Cine was born in 2002 from the desire of a group of people to experiment and renew the procedures and practices of Argentine cinema. In conference at the ECAL, Wednesday 13 October 2024 at 6.00pm.
PROJECTION
On the occasion of the 59th Solothurn Film Festival, ECAL Film Department presents several films by students and graduates.
LECTURES
Invited by ECAL's Cinema department, Argentine director Alejo Moguillansky presents a Masterclass on Wednesday, November 22, 2023.
PROJECTION
On Tuesday November 7, the ECAL presents the graduation films of the Bachelor Cinema at the Cinémathèque Suisse.
LECTURES
As part of his programme at the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Italian filmmaker Yervant Gianikian will be giving a masterclass on Wednesday 18 October at 4pm at the ECAL.
PROJECTION
Six short films made by ECAL/HEAD Cinema Master's students at the 22nd DokuFest in Prizren.
PROJECTION
On the occasion of the 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, many graduates of ECAL will present movies
PROJECTION
Filmed on a fishing boat off the coast of Boston, Leviathan pushes the boundaries of what can be filmed. The projection of this documentary that warns of the threats of intensive fishing as much as it reveals the stunning beauty of the ocean's entrails, will be followed by a meeting with its co-director, Verena Paravel.
LECTURES
As part of the film festival Visions du Réel (April 21 to 30) in Nyon, Lucrecia Martel will give a masterclass on Tuesday, April 25, organized in partnership with La Cinémathèque suisse. Four films from ECAL Cinema Department students and alumni will also be part of the programmation.
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Invited by ECAL Cinema and Fine Arts departments, the French director and artist Alain Guiraudie will give a lecture on Tuesday April 18, 2023 at 6pm.
PROJECTION
From March 10 to 19, 2023, the Inernational Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights - FIFDH will take place in Geneva. On the occasion of its 21st edition, ECAL takes part in the program and presents "Special screening | Kosovo in the spotlight". Also to be seen, two films by Master Cinema ECAL/HEAD graduates.
LECTURES
On the occasion of the 6th edition of Les Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne, ECAL welcomes Cédric Klapisch and Valeria Golina for two conferences on Thursday, March 9 and Friday, March 10, 2023.
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.