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FILM STUDIES

Floriane Roulin – Petites Bouées

by Floriane Roulin

Over the course of a weekend, Sophie and Mila reunite at their childhood vacation home to prepare their father's wedding. But when an old MiniDV tape resurfaces, its blurred images awaken memories that seemed long forgotten. The two sisters begin to piece together a fragmented childhood, marked by waiting and silence. Moving between past and present, Sophie confronts the anger that still binds her to her father. Through the perspective of these two sisters, Petites Bouées explores the workings of memory, the unspoken truths passed down through generations, and the challenge of coming to terms with a past left unresolved. The MiniDV tape, with its fragile and intimate texture, becomes a space where the past re-emerges in fragments.

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Nafi Touré – Le Mur – 2026 #2

by Nafi Touré

Eliane and Laure, recently separated, are preparing to leave the apartment they shared. Eliane is packing her last boxes when she discovers dampness on the living room wall. Refusing to be solely responsible for the damage, she decides to call Laure for help. As the two women are forced to spend these last moments repainting the wall together, buried emotions resurface, marking the final steps toward their goodbye. This film was an opportunity to work on the “behind closed doors” question once again, this time, around a single object: a wall. The actresses' performances and the set design almost single-handedly carried the narrative, making even the slightest interactions with the object more meaningful than any words.

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Jann Kessler – se métamorphoser ?

by Jann Kessler

How can one learn to have healthy relationships, on equal terms with the other? With the help of the camera, the filmmaker explores the relational dynamics between him and two close friends, Mar and Christal, through various therapeutic scenarios. In doing so, he confronts his own self-hatred, which turns out to be a tragic attempt to avoid repeating, as musch as possible, his own toxic masculine patterns. From this project, and through the medium of the camera, emerges a reflection on self-love, openness to others, overcoming shame, and the benefits of artistic creation on mental health.

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Pauline Pichard – GLORYLAND

by Pauline Pichard

Last spring. After about a hundred people reported dreaming of a strange light, a series of unexplained disappearances strikes the Lausanne region. In the heart of gardens where those affected by the phenomenon seem to converge, rumors, beliefs, and personal stories spread from one plot to another, in search of an explanation to what eludes them.

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Mathys Nouspikel – Capriccio

by Mathys Nouspikel

Arsène, a twelve-year-old boy, must perform a cello piece for his dying grandfather. Overwhelmed by fear and shame, he runs away after realizing he has forgotten his sheet music at the conservatory. Along the way, he meets a girl his age who leads him off course and helps him find the courage to return to his grandfather.

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Robin Kaufmann – Sous ma peau

by Robin Kaufmann

One evening, Gabriel throws a party with his friends to celebrate the conviction of the man who abused him as a child. With Lucien by his side, he turns the party into a flirty dance floor in an attempt to escape his past. Caught between Lucien's gentleness and his own need for desire, Gabriel unwittingly reenacts the confusion between affection and control. Over the course of a single night, Under My Skin explores the intimate repercussions of sexual violence and how it shapes emotional relationships. Through the relationship between Gabriel and Lucien, the film follows a character who can only conceive of his relationships with men through desire, and is confronted with a kind of intimacy he no longer recognizes.

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Morgane Beslay – Le Mur – 2026 #1

by Morgane Beslay

Eliane and Laure, recently separated, are preparing to leave the apartment they shared. Eliane is packing her last boxes when she discovers dampness on the living room wall. Refusing to be solely responsible for the damage, she decides to call Laure for help. As the two women are forced to spend these last moments repainting the wall together, buried emotions resurface, marking the final steps toward their goodbye. Le Mur centers the "behind closed doors" question around a single object: a wall. Therefore, the actresses' performances and the set design almost single-handedly carry the narrative, making even the slightest interactions with the object more meaningful than any words.

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Maéna Hirt – Pauvre Pauvre Astrid

by Maéna Hirt

"Set in a small unnamed town, Timothy disappears during a local festival. One year later, Astrid meets her friends to attend the annual trout festival. But as they approach it, her friends disappear one after another. Astrid then finds herself alone in a town that suddenly seems to have been emptied of all life." Poor Poor Astrid explores the social gaze and the consequences of becoming invisible. Through a surreal quest interwoven with fragmented memories of Timothy, Astrid is confronted with her own disappearance and tries to find her place in a world that seems to have stopped seeing her.

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Charlyne Genoud – Respirer une fois sur trois

by Charlyne Genoud

Documentary, 17min To ward off the curse of osteoporosis that hangs over the women in her family, the filmmaker's mother urges her to exercise. She joins a strength-training class attended by older women who love to sing and share coffee together. From one burst of laughter to the next, they transform this ordinary place into a refuge that nurtures both body and mind. In their company, the filmmaker explores her relationship to her mother's fragility and attempts to rethink her own perception of old age.

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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.

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Workshop Shitty Rigs

Workshop led by Michael William Farino, Jonathan Ricardo Argudo and Herbert Mayer and given to students in the Bachelor's degree programmes in Cinema and Industrial Design.

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Workshop with Benoît Dervaux

by Noé Bregnard, Eva Rust, Victor Durand Matinella, Lou Haenggi, Samuel Harari, Hana Magimel, Nolan Grando, Mileny Viera de Andrade, Zélia Zanone

Second-year Bachelor's students attended a workshop with Belgian cinematographer Benoît Dervaux, known for his work on the Dardenne brothers' films. He was responsible for the cinematography on the Swiss films Laissez-moi by Maxime Rappaz (2023) and À bras-le-corps by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo (2025).

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MASTERCLASS THIERRY DE PERETTI

Meeting with Thierry de Peretti, French actor, director and stage director

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Lanna Melissa Nebie – Rémanence

by Lanna Melissa Nebie

A young woman seeks to save her father's soul, guided by a blind man to a forbidden place.

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Antonin Dutoit – À perte de vue

by Antonin Dutoit

An old man dies slowly, cared for by a home aide. A young man watches them, in silence.

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Louis Richalet – De l'eau qui bout au fond de la terre

by Louis Richalet

Deep underground, Alexandre follows voices and sounds, which arise from and lead him to a lost woman.

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David Gonseth – Noirs matins

by David Gonseth

The youngest in a family gradually senses a quiet unease lurking in their ordinary daily life.

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Aurélie Chételat – Lumpaz

by Aurélie Chételat

One, two, three… statue. Will the bear play with me? Where is he? What is he?

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Camille Surdez – L'Avant-Poste 21

by Camille Surdez

Between doubts and awkwardness, three roommates go through a night marked by the abortion of one of them.

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Victor Cateau – Ceux qui restent

by Victor Cateau

In an Alpine village shaken by the arrival of a controversial ski resort project, a man disappears into the night. Overwhelmed by the events, Marie, the mayor, tries to understand the forces at play.

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Serhii Tykhoniuk – Nostos

by Serhii Tykhoniuk

In a hotel room, a Ukrainian filmmaker in exile has his isolation disrupted by the unexpected return of his former partner, who is about to leave for Ukraine to be with her ailing father.

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Documentary film workshop with Alessandro Comodin

with Alessandro Comodin

The 2025 documentary film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by french italian director Alessandro Comodin.

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Documentary film workshop with Benoit Rossel

with Benoit Rossel

The 2025 documentary film workshop for 1st year students was lead by french swiss director Benoit Rossel.

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Direction workshop with Patric Chiha

with Patric Chiha

In partnership with La Manufacture, the Cinema Dapartment invited austrian director Patric Chiha for a direction workshop destined to 3rd year students.

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Fiction film workshop with Klaudia Reynicke

with Klaudia Reynicke

The 2024 fiction film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by swiss and peruvian director Klaudia Reynicke.

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Naïla Ebinger – Cartilage (Direction)

with Denis Jutzeler

For my diploma project, I did the cinematography for the bachelor film of my classmate Arsène Fragnière: Cartilage.