BA FILM STUDIES
Fiction Film Workshop with Marie-Elsa Sgualdo – 2026
with Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
The 2026 fiction film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by swiss director Marie-Elsa Sgualdo.
The youngest in a family gradually senses a quiet unease lurking in their ordinary daily life.
Two young brothers, Antoine and Romain, move into a new house with their parents. Very quickly, Antoine begins to notice that something is wrong in this seemingly ordinary family. This film explores domestic and incestuous violence through the lens of the everyday. Rather than depicting it as dramatic or isolated events, it is shown through the banal gestures of family life: breakfast, a football match, bath time. This approach reveals how such violence can merge with routine, becoming invisible, almost normal. It doesn’t break into the characters’ lives — it is part of them. It’s this normalization, this insidious presence, that makes the violence all the more disturbing.