ECAL at NIFFF 2025
04–12.07.2025
Neuchâtel

This presence once again confirms the vitality and uniqueness of the cinematic approaches developed within ECAL’s Film Department.

Three works from the Bachelor in Directing or the ECAL–HEAD Master's programme have been selected for major sections of the festival, from the national competition to the programme dedicated to schools:

Swiss Competition

Where were you at night ?
by Maria Luiza Vaz

Where were you at night? (Direction)

Project

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.

Amazing Schools Category

Death to the Hunchbacks
by Matteo Friberg

Acciaio
by Valentina Parati

Death to the hunchbacks (Direction)

Project

Knight Borboron is poisoned and wants to apologize to Hildegund before dying.

Acciaio

Project

A lullaby of engines and love, this short movie is an emotional and hypersensorial journey into the deep world of mechanophilia.