
FILM STUDIES
Romania Grand Voyage workshop
with Radu Jude
<meta charset="UTF-8">On the first year of their Master degree, students embark on a “Grand Voyage” to discover the region and a filmmaker. In 2025, they went to Romania.
Developing a personal cinematographic vision, understanding the filmmaking process and apprehending the stakes of production so as to pave the way for graduates to smoothly join professional circles – such are the main objectives of this programme. This Master course, which is unique in Europe, is aimed at the holders of a Bachelor’s degree, or with equivalent experience, wishing to further their knowledge in one of the following fields: direction scriptwriting, editing, sound or production.
Through courses and workshops provided by renowned lecturers in each field, the students develop a personal project throughout the curriculum. For their master project, they are involved in the production (direction scriptwriting, editing, sound or production) of a short, medium or feature length film (fiction, documentary, TV series, art-house, transmedia…). Several films gain international visibility through renowned festivals or/and TV broadcasting.
This Master programme relies on a partnership between ECAL and HEAD/Geneva University of Art and Design and on collaborations with Lausanne University (UNIL), Zurich University (UZH), Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK), the Swiss National Film Archive in Lausanne, Swiss National Broadcasting RTS, and la Manufacture (school of performing arts) in Lausanne, University of Music Lausanne and Swiss Literature Institute in Bienne.
French & English
Master of Arts HES-SO in Film, major in Direction, Scenario, Editing, Sound or Production
4 semesters
120 ECTS
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Film director of documentaries or fiction, Director of photography, Editor, Sound mixer, Sound engineer, Scriptwriter, Producer, Teacher…
Rokhaya Marieme Balde, Jorge Cadena, Juliana Fanjul, Laurence Favre, Andreas Fontana, Carmen Jaquier, Kostas Makrinos, Fisnik Maxville, Michele Pennetta, Aurélie Pernet, Minna Prader, Maxime Rappaz, Andreea Vescan, Moïra Pitteloud, Vuk Vukmanović...
Paolo Moretti (ECAL)
Anita Hugi (HEAD)
Artistic deputy
Jasmin Basic
Assistants
Yasmine Bahechar (HEAD)
Anouk Chambaz (ECAL)
Production & distribution
Jean-Guillaume Sonnier (ECAL)
Elsa Amiel
Claire Atherton
Lionel Baier
Stéphane Batut
Joëlle Bertossa
Yaël Bitton
Jean-Stéphane Bron
Claire Burger
Joel Coen
Abdel Raouf Dafri
Thierry de Peretti
Philippe Faucon
Abel Ferrara
Emmanuel Finkiel
Amos Gitaï
Delphine Gleize
Jean-Luc Godard
Alain Gomis
Yann Gonzalez
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Mikhaël Hers
Mike Hoolboom
Carlos Ibañez-Diaz
Kaya Inan
Antoine Jaccoud
Agnès Jaoui
Simon Jaquemet
Tom Kalin
Anurag Kashyap
Alanté Kavaïté
Marthe Keller
Gion Reto Killias
Stéphane Kuthy
Julien Lacheray
Nadine Lamari
Rachel Lang
Danielle Lessovitz
Sébastien Lifshitz
Noémie Lvovsky
Vincent Macaigne
Ursula Meier
Peter Mettler
Valérie Mréjen
François Musy
Bettina Oberli
Jeanne Oberson
Ruben Östlund
Jean-Gabriel Périot
Vasco Pimentel
Pedro Pinho
Nicolas Philibert
Katell Quillévéré
Charlotte Rampling
Joao Pedro Rodrigues
Antoine Russbach
Emmanuel Salinger
Stefano Savona
Eyal Sivan
Michel Spinosa
Béla Tarr
Marianne Tardieu
Jeremy Thomas
Gus Van Sant
Virgil Vernier
Nathalie Vidal
Teresa Villaverde
Marc Von Stürler
Alice Winocour
Frederick Wiseman
Katharina Wyss
Jacqueline Zünd
Andreï Zviaguintsev