FILM STUDIES
Morgane Beslay – Le Mur (Directing)
by Morgane Beslay
Following their difficult separation, Eliane and Laure have to repaint a wall of the house they are leaving, a wall as full of their own history as that of others before them.
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Nafi Touré – Le Mur (Photography)
by Nafi Touré
Following their difficult separation, Eliane and Laure have to repaint a wall of the house they are leaving, a wall as full of their own history as that of others before them.
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Maéna Hirt – Pauvre Pauvre Timothy
by Maéna Hirt
Timothy disappears. Then Astride's friends vanish, and soon the entire town seems to fade away without explanation.
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Robin Kaufmann – Sous ma peau
by Robin Kaufmann
The night Gabriel celebrates his abuser’s conviction, he is confronted with Lucien’s tenderness.
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Charlyne Genoud – Respirer une fois sur trois
by Charlyne Genoud
In group strength-training classes, people breathe in unison every day. Charlyne lifts weights alongside three retired women who love to sing. What if a cheerful gym could be the place to break our family curses?
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Jann Kessler – se métamorphoser ?
by Jann Kessler
How do I build healthy, equal relationships? An intimate cinematic-therapeutic journey of discovery.
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Floriane Roulin – Petites Bouées
by Floriane Roulin
During their father’s wedding preparations, Sophie and Mila are confronted with their childhood memories.
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Mathys Nouspikel – Capriccio
by Mathys Nouspikel
Arsène runs away before playing for his dying grandfather, but an unexpected encounter helps him find the courage to return.
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Pauline Pichard – GLORYLAND
by Pauline Pichard
Last spring, unknown lights appeared in the sky above Lausanne. In a garden, the last fragment of an ordinary Eden, tales blur with rumours after a series of strange disappearances.
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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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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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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.
FILM STUDIES
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.
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Loïc Pidoux – Betelgeuse (Direction)
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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Hervé Ossent – The hole (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Guillaume, a young pig farmer, discovers that his father is indulging in bestiality.
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Donika Gashi – La vie de Lucy (Direction)
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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Arsène Fragnière – Cartilage (Direction)
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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Léa Favre – Who goes hunting... (Direction)
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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Mégane Brügger – Mom dances (Direction)
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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Maria Luiza Vaz – Where were you at night? (Direction)
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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Camille Anker – Once there was a storm (Direction)
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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Pol Barrelet – Leave the hive (Direction)
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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Matteo Friberg – Death to the hunchbacks (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Knight Borboron is poisoned and wants to apologize to Hildegund before dying.
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Benjamin Eggenberger – The Stork's Lair (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
In an alienating huis-clos, where life is lived vicariously, two lovers bound by an impossible desire descend into fantasy and destruction.
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Rémi Molleyres – The wild waltz (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Joseph discovers that Félicie, his fiancée, just killed her uncle and has decided to run away. A whole life collapses for the young couple.
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Jay Holdener – There were cowboys (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Daniel back from the USA, is given a mission by a ghostly Cowboy: to steal a Chevy El Camino.
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Ilan Dubi – Before ocean (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Léon has a tough night as he runs away from home to join Olivia on her journey to the ocean.
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Ilù Seydoux – Before ocean (Sound)
with Fanny Martin
My diploma work in sound engineering involved recording and sound editing the film Before ocean, directed by Ilan Dubi.
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Adrien Beroud – Before ocean (Scriptwriting)
with Antoine Russbach
Before being adapted into a short film, "Aire de Jeux" is my Bachelor project: a feature film script, a satirical comedy in the world of contemporary theatre.
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Giulia Goy – Rose on the farm (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Rose is a young filmmaker who's looking for a job. She decides to go on a course to retrain as a farmer. This is an inceptive story that questions our relationship with the land, with art, as well as the role of filmmakers as observers of our world.
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Remo Corazza – Satellites never fall from the sky (Photography)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
My diploma work consisted in being the cinematographer on the film Satellites never fall from the sky, which I co-directed with Matias Carlier, Ecal alumni in cinema, class of 2022.
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César Cadène – Before ocean (Photography)
with Agnès Godard
My ECAL graduation project involved making the photography of the film "Before the Ocean," written and directed by Ilan Dubi, a student director. Inspired by the cinema of the Safdie brothers and John Cassavetes, this film was a real technical and creative challenge.
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Marcello Balzaretti – There were cowboys (Photography)
with Agnès Godard
Infinitely disappointed by his recent pilgrimage to the USA for which he had great expectations, Daniel, back in Switzerland, goes back to his daily routine. One day appears before him a ghostly cowboy, giving him a mission: to steal a Chevy El Camino.
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Pierre Daendliker – Drifting Away (Photography)
with Céline Bozon
For my end-of-study work, I had to design the photography for a graduation film.
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Olivia Calcaterra – The wonderful pain of the wild Broom (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
In the desert of southern Spain, a film designed to bring together animal and human emotions through the trauma of abandonment.
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Laurine Joyeux – Les mouches de Beni (Script supervisor)
with Julie Lupo
As a script supervisor, I worked with the director on her film, from the writing stage to the shooting.
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Yan Ciszewski – The great disappointement (Screenplay)
with Emmanuel Bourdieu
Two women come down from the top of a mountain, following a great disappointment.
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Marion Reymond – Drifiting away (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
A young caregiver uses her imagination to cope with the mourning of her mother and to escape from the nursing home where she works.
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Solène Mercier – Les mouches de Beni (Photography)
with Céline Bozon
For my degree, I did the photography of the short film Les mouches de Beni, directed by Alice-Denyse Matthey.
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Loris Theurillat – The wonderful pain of the wild Broom (Photography)
with Céline Bozon
Strongly attracted to cinematography in documentaries, I did the photography for Olivia Calcaterra’s short documentary film for her degree.
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Dario Willommet – Spiders in the heart (Photography)
with Céline Bozon
My diploma project consisted in accompanying the production of a short fiction film as a cinematographer. I was in charge of the camera and the lighting on the set.
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Alice Denyse Matthey-Jonais – Les mouches de Beni (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Beni, a young woman with bipolar disorder, forms a musical friendship with her 65-year-old neighbour Gégé.
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Keerthigan Sivakumar – Doosra
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Vinoth, a refugee, is looking for a volunteer activity to escape his loneliness, but no one is willing to accept his help.
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Avril Lehmann – The Heiresses
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Luna returns to the family home where still lives her younger sister, Diana. Diana has been living alone in this large, dilapidated house since the death of their father.
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Yael Vallotton – Sleeping Water
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
In the small kitchen of a family home, two women in their fourties are chatting. Out of the blue, one of them kisses the other.