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Lévana Schütz – Verseau Révolution – 2026 #2

by Lévana Schütz

Aquarius Revolution is a hybrid documentary that weaves together family history, investigation, and autofiction. Faced with the gradual loss of memory experienced by their grandmother — who was an astrologer — the director sets out to reconstruct the media landscape surrounding Élisabeth Teissier, a prominent astrologer of the same generation, in the hope of rekindling memories and reopening a family dialogue. Combining interviews with archival reenactments, the film deliberately blurs the line between documentary and fiction. In doing so, it reflects on memory, inheritance, and the stories we tell ourselves to give meaning to our lives. This project was developed in collaboration with the Image and Set Design departments at ZHdK.

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Miguel Rodriguez-Viloria – Keeper – 2026 #2

by Miguel Rodriguez-Viloria

Keeper is an urban fantasy short film about two friends sharing their last moments together. One is a ghost, the other is a goalkeeper preparing to return home in Africa. Through football and farewell rituals, they drift between home and away, between life and death. Keeper is a reflection on the idea of home as more than just a place. This film shows that, despite living away from home, people always find ways to live, to love, and to care for one another.

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Alejandra Gomez Pinilla – In Between – 2026 #2

by Alejandra Gomez Pinilla

In Between is a fiction short film that explores the experience of migration through an intimate and sensitive perspective. In a world increasingly shaped by displacement, exile, and the pursuit of a better future, this project aims to examine the feelings of uprootedness, nostalgia, and not belonging that often accompany the act of leaving home. The film follows a young Peruvian dancer who has recently moved to Switzerland and finds herself caught between expectations, doubts, and the desire to find her place. Through visual contrasts, sound design, and the expressive use of the body in motion, In Between experiments with different narrative forms to convey this state of being "in between" and questions what it truly means to feel at home.

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Johanna Pataud – Pétrel

by Johanna Pataud

Pétrel is a feature-length fiction film on the edge of the fantastic. Through the prism of grief, it investigates the porous boundary between human and animal life. Ouessant. An island lashed by wind and teeming with seabirds. Morgane, 28, a naturalist working in nature conservation, lives there in solitude until her younger brother Robin, 26, unexpectedly returns after years without contact. As they struggle to reconnect, tragedy strikes. During a hike along the island's fogbound cliffs, Robin disappears. Suicide? Accident? Morgane refuses to accept either explanation. The island she thought she knew has become strange and unfamiliar. To find the truth, she must follow in her brother's footsteps, crossing boundaries between worlds, shedding her former self, and risking losing herself.

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Michael Girod – Verseau Révolution – 2026 #1

by Michael Girod

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Jacob Detwiler – Toilet – 2026 #1

by Jacob Detwiler

Toilet tells the story of two women after the end of the world. The older one builds a toilet by stacking stones, almost like a ritual, while the younger one is drawn to her gestures and the rhythm of her work. The film explores what forms of humanity might remain in such a world, looking at the way someone's habits and sensations can be passed on to another person. As the film has almost no dialogue, it traces the shift from hostility to intimacy through the characters' gestures, gazes, and sound rather than through language. Sound, in particular, is an important element: it reveals emotions and changes in the relationship that the characters do not express through language, and supports the film's most delicate moments.

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Eunhyoung Ju – Toilet – 2026 #3

by Eunhyoung Ju

Toilet tells the story of two women after the end of the world. The older one builds a toilet by stacking stones, almost like a ritual, while the younger one is drawn to her gestures and the rhythm of her work. The film explores what forms of humanity might remain after the end of the world, looking at the way someone's habits and sensations can be passed on to another person. As the film has almost no dialogue, it traces the shift from hostility to intimacy through the characters' gestures, gazes, and sound rather than through language. Sound, in particular, is an important element: it reveals emotions and changes in the relationship that the characters do not express through language, and supports the film's most delicate moments.

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Michael Girod – In Between – 2026 #1

by Michael Girod

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Michael Girod – Toilet – 2026 #2

by Michael Girod

Toilet tells the story of two women after the end of the world. The older one builds a toilet by stacking stones, almost like a ritual, while the younger one is drawn to her gestures and the rhythm of her work. The film explores what forms of humanity might remain after the end of the world, looking at the way someone's habits and sensations can be passed on to another person. As the film has almost no dialogue, it traces the shift from hostility to intimacy through the characters' gestures, gazes, and sound rather than through language. Sound, in particular, is an important element: it reveals emotions and changes in the relationship that the characters do not express through language, and supports the film's most delicate moments.

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Maël Mubalegh – Spring Fugue – 2026 #3

by Maël Mubalegh

Spring Fugue is a short film following a 13-year-old Georgian girl living in Switzerland. Over the course of a single day, the film moves through family silence, cultural displacement, and political tensions inherited from the adult world. By deconstructing classical dramaturgical structures, Spring Fugue seeks to place the audience in the same position as the girl's mother: observing, interpreting, and questioning. Within the constraint of a ten-minute format, the film builds tension through gesture, gaze, and movement rather than dialogue or exposition.

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Millan Kiptum – Keeper – 2026 #1

by Millan Kiptum

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Romane Demidoff – Ada s'en va

by Romane Demidoff

On the evening of August 1st, as her entire family prepares to celebrate the Swiss National Day, 20-year-old Ada receives a shock: she is pregnant. Reeling from the news, she flees her suffocating home. While waiting for a bus that never arrives, a car pulls over. Behind the wheel is a young man named Merlin, convinced he has just found Sandra, his long-lost first love. At first surprised, Ada quickly regains her composure and begins pretending to be her. Together, they set off toward Montreux. But their nighttime journey takes an unexpected turn when they discover a little girl hiding in the back seat. On the shores of Lake Geneva, this unlikely trio improvises a fragile, fleeting family, while Ada struggles to come to terms with a shifting identity that she can barely define herself.

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Gabrielle Amapakabo – One Fine Evening In Santa Paura

by Gabrielle Amapakabo

One Fine Evening in Santa Paura is a first draft of a feature-length fiction screenplay that blends a coming-of-age story with a fantasy epic. The story follows Craig Melville, a 10-year-old American boy, who spends the summer with his older sister Theo in a small village in Ticino. While the young boy dreams of being noticed by his father, Charles, an absent businessman, he befriends Otto, the mute gardener of the villa they are staying in, who introduces him to the beauty of nature. But Charles' plans for the valley could threaten their budding friendship. This project seeks to explore the staging of silence, childhood, and places as a narrative language in their own right.

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Tabarak Allah Abbas – Spring Fugue – 2026 #1

by Tabarak Allah Abbas

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Mariam Bitsadze – Spring Fugue – 2026 #2

by Mariam Bitsadze

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Fei Fan – Fenni in Wonderland

with Elene Naveriani

Fenni in Wonderland is a short fiction film in which I also use a documentary approach. In this film, the boundary between reality and dream is blurred by magical realism in order to represent the Chinese immigrant community in Paris through my personal point of view.

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Anna Joos – Niederurnen, GL

with Verena Paravel

Once called ‘the magic material', asbestos has become an invisible evil. In a forgotten valley of Switzerland, death, carried by the wind, forever and ever accompanies the everyday lives of the Italian asbestos factory workers. They are silenced by the Swiss industrial state. But the insides of their bodies bear witness to their story: their asbestos-injured lungs breathe in and out, intermingling with the repetitive industrial sounds, like heartbeats, in which they were once immersed. The binary rhythm of the Tarantella, a southern Italian ritual, once had the power to counter an invisible evil.

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Saleh Kashefi – Overture

with Katharina Wyss

Beneath all the noise lays silence. Overture is a cinematic journey which tries to illustrate how silence can be covered with noise through telling a typical story of a human being and their way of coping with life’s suffering in the modern world.

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Theofanis Papadopoulos – Firelight

with Katharina Wyss

Firelight explores my fear of non-existence after death and that of imagining to no longer interact with an environment. It confronts the characters with the lies they tell themselves, in order to be able to survive in this absurd situation. It is about an awareness and the point of no return, where, confronted with reality, we also become aware of the fact to vainly create meaning in our lives, to make them livable. Thus, we hide from the mortal misery that awaits us every day, as in every room of the mansion. We create meanings and explanations to comfort ourselves, except that being aware of it and accepting this absurdity is equivalent to no longer being afraid of it.

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Valentina Parati – Acciaio

with Verena Paravel

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

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Loïs de Goumoëns – Rase Campagne

with Anne Brouillet

Rase Campagne is a feature-length comedy screenplay project. It tells the story of Elia, a helpful and polite young woman from Vaud, Switzerland, who lives in fear of disturbing... or even worse, of disappointing. One day, a ZAD arrives in her quiet region and through an unfortunate combination of circumstances, we believe she is one of the ZADists! Elia will try to prove the opposite but the adventure will prove difficult when the different forces present try to rally her to their cause. In this story, I am interested in probing Swiss “neutrality” and the consequences of refusing commitment, whether emotional or political. The project is at the V1 stage and is therefore under development.

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Jonathan Daza Ospina – Silencio

with Verena Paravel

Silencio is a hybrid film that narrates the story of a sound recorder from a big city in Colombia who goes to the jungles in the pacific coast, in search of the sounds from a past that is still haunting the present. A personal journey where she meets local activists of different generations engaged with the preservation of memory, and where music and oral traditions enact as liminal spaces in which mourning invokes and shakes the ghosts of a colonial heritage before the promises of the future. It is a film that traces a cartography of sound and archives the ecological present from a historical perspective, examining sensorially the embodiments of resistance in contexts of armed conflict in the west of Colombia.

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Sara Dutch – Mife et Miso vont en bateau

with Elene Naveriani

In the near future, Xzir, a woman in her thirties, finds herself faced with an unwanted pregnancy. In the ultra-digital, techno-authoritarian society in which she lives, pregnancies are automatically entered in a national register and monitored by the state, abortions are banned. Xzir is going to take the illegal path of the DarkWeb to her pregnancy, whatever the cost.

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Antoine Scalese – Hypersex

with Anne Brouillet

My diploma project is a screenplay for a feature film titled Hypersex, exploring the fantasy romance genre. It tells the story of Alfa, a young man who lends his appearance to a model of a sex android and manages to divert one sample in hopes of restoring lost intimacy with his elusive partner. Quickly, by substituting it for himself, he loses control of the situation and finds himself confronted with intense affects. This screenplay uses sexuality as a fully-fledged dramatic force within the overall narrative dynamic. Intertwined with this, the narrative rhetoric of love's return offers a queer perspective to the film, portraying the complex relationship between two male characters who, despite their selfish behaviors, choose not to give up on each other.

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Loris Ciaburri – Lux Vitae

with Anne Brouillet

Lux Vitae is a feature-length screenplay developed over two years as part of the ECAL/HEAD Master of Cinema program. The project was built from a synopsis, through various treatment versions to a V1 screenplay. Anne Brouillet supervised the writing process throughout. Lux Vitae is a film set in La Chaux-de-Fonds, incorporating the local socio-historical context. The film follows the story of Anica, a polyamorous, pansexual watchmaker who, following an accident, becomes a paraplegic. Her sex life is limited, so she decides to seek assisted suicide and meets Max, an EXIT counsellor. These two people, totally opposed in their sexuality, come together and bond intimately.

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Pablo Guscetti – Chi ch'ien piü chiö

with Katharina Wyss

Nena, 40, lives in the valley in Ticino where she grew up. Giulia, an urbanite in her thirties, is visiting her family's village for the first time in order to conduct field research for her post-doctorate. Nena reluctantly acts as Giulia's research guide. Animosity grows quickly between the two. The protagonists discover that mysterious and murderous attacks are ravaging the valley they left behind. Panic-stricken, the two women head for a high-altitude refuge. But this respite is quickly replaced by heartbreak. The storm is close, and so are the and monsters. Giulia and Nena face each other in the midst of horror.

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Léa Célestine Bernasconi – The mountains are still growing (Sound)

with Nathalie Vidal

My job was to create the soundtrack for this film from sound recording to mixing and editing.

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Victor Comte – Carne (Screenplay)

with Nadine Lamari, Alice Winocour, Michel Spinoza

This is the first draft of a feature film script, written over the two years of the MA programme.

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Rokhaya Balde – La passion d'Aline (Screenplay)

with Nadine Lamari, Alice Winocour, Michel Spinoza

My graduation project is a version 1.0 of a feature film script on the life of Aline Sitoé Diatta. Aline is a heroine of the Senegalese resistance and particularly of Casamance against French colonisation in the 1920s and 1940s.

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Marie Chemin – The mountains are still growing (Direction)

with Stéphane Batut

Laurence, a Parisian in her fifties, is spending a few days in an isolated holiday cottage in southern France. There she meets Antoine, the young owner of the place. Antoine is a little boorish and macho and tries to seduce her. But Laurence is there for a specific purpose: to give him a letter containing a secret.

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Leopold Helbich Frey – The Scent of Burning Time (Direction)

with Stéphane Batut

Three people searching for a better future on an island are confronted with the climate catastrophe.

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Marine Maye – Mountain Flesh (Sound)

with Nathalie Vidal

The summer idyll is disturbed by recurring noises while a mountain village loses its foundations.

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Yatoni Roy Cantu – Ramboy (Sound)

with Nathalie Vidal

Ramboy provided me with the opportunity to look after the whole sound process of a film, from the sound recording to the music, the editing and the mixing. It was a real adventure.

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Matthias Joulaud – Ramboy (Direction)

with Jacqueline Zünd

Ramboy is a 30-minute documentary short film, the result of work done with a family of sheep farmers on an Irish island. Being immersed for several months in this island allowed me to weave strong links and to offer a documentary which condenses at the same time problems related to the adolescence of a young boy, and to the hard social and economic reality of a trade whose traditions are under threat.

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Jiahui Huang – The mountains are still growing (Editing)

with Gion Reto Killias

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Balthus Kiss – In Vitro (Screenplay)

with Alice Winocour, Nadine Lamari, Michel Spinoza

Through Caillou’s point of view, In Vitro enables us to look at the world as through a broken mirror. Which reflection should we trust?

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Michail Galanopoulos – The Parade (Direction)

with Stéphane Batut

A day in the life of a group of high school students in Athens, Greece, during the day of the national military parade.

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Valentina Shasivari – Mountain Flesh (Direction)

with Jacqueline Zünd

The summer idyll is disturbed by recurring noises while a mountain village loses its foundations.

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Antoine Flahaut – The Parade (Editing)

with Gion Reto Killias

The editing of this film was a meticulous balancing act, consisting less of searching for clean and sophisticated cuts than of finding for each scene the brutality, the power, the troubled swirl of emotions that inhabit this group of teenagers fleeing through the streets of Athens.

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Selin Dettwiler – Ramboy (Editing)

with Gion Reto Killias

On Achill Island, on the west coast of the Republic of Ireland, Cian hopes to spend his summer vacation playing soccer with his friends. But his grandfather Martin reckons the time has come to introduce him to farm work in order to pass on his craft to the next generation.

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Massimo Del Gaudio – Le défilé (Sound)

with Nathalie Vidal

I worked on Michail Galanopoulos’ graduation film: Le défilé. I went to Greece in November 2021 to work on the film as sound recordist and location mixer. I then worked on the post production as sound editor, sound designer and mixer.

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Malou Briand – Dalia (screenplay)

by Malou Briand

From the 2007 presidential elections to the emergence of the #MeToo movement, from the suburbs to the French capital, “Dalia” traces the journey of a young woman in the contemporary world. It is a story of friendship and of upward social mobility. maloubriand@gmail.com

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Santiago Chacón – Ecce homo (direction)

with Claire Burger, Rachel Lang

Juan Antonio finds his father who is back home after a long absence. There, during the preparation of the most important religious festival of the city : the Ecce homo; father and son go to share in solitude, their hatreds for each other. santichacon91@gmail.com

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Olivia Frey – Ecce homo (editing)

by Olivia Frey

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Nina Defontaine – Clémente (direction)

by Nina Defontaine

The portrait of Monique (my grandmother) as i accompany her in the great sorting of her objects (her ghosts) at her family house (Clémente). ninadefontaine@gmail.com https://cargocollective.com/ninaphotographies/cinematographie

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Ketsia Stocker – Europa (production)

by Ketsia Stocker

Pedro, working in Switzerland, must take one cow to the slaughterhouse at the same time his mother dies in Spain. ketsia.stocker@gmail.com

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Lucas Rubio Martinez – Europa (direction)

by Lucas Rubio Martinez

Pedro, working in Switzerland, must take one cow to the slaughterhouse at the same time his mother dies in Spain. lucadelfresno@gmail.com

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Raphaël Meyer – La Sentinelle (screenplay)

by Raphaël Meyer

France. 2016. Operation Sentinel. One step. Two steps. Look right. Look left. Mya has just turned 18 and is walking in her uniform. Rifle against her breast. Barrel facing down. Her finger on the stock, just above the trigger. One more step. Two more steps. Look right. Look left. Mya is on patrol. Mya waits. For something. For someone. At last.

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Vuk Vukmanovic – Soraya Luna (sound)

by Vuk Vukmanovic

A cinematographic necromancy calls the spectres of the past: by the means of VHS find the spectator submerges into the Berlin family's intimate play of the author's childhood. iamvuk@gmail.com https://www.iamvuk.com

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Paul Choquet – Tous les chemins (direction)

by Paul Choquet

A group of people is searching for an old lady who got lost in the Vaud countryside. paulchoquet@gmail.com

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Lévana Schütz – Verseau Révolution – 2026 #2

Miguel Rodriguez-Viloria – Keeper – 2026 #2

Alejandra Gomez Pinilla – In Between – 2026 #2

Johanna Pataud – Pétrel

Michael Girod – Verseau Révolution – 2026 #1

Jacob Detwiler – Toilet – 2026 #1

Eunhyoung Ju – Toilet – 2026 #3

Michael Girod – In Between – 2026 #1

Michael Girod – Toilet – 2026 #2

Maël Mubalegh – Spring Fugue – 2026 #3

Millan Kiptum – Keeper – 2026 #1

Romane Demidoff – Ada s'en va

Gabrielle Amapakabo – One Fine Evening In Santa Paura

Tabarak Allah Abbas – Spring Fugue – 2026 #1

Mariam Bitsadze – Spring Fugue – 2026 #2

Fei Fan – Fenni in Wonderland

Anna Joos – Niederurnen, GL

Saleh Kashefi – Overture

Theofanis Papadopoulos – Firelight

Valentina Parati – Acciaio

Loïs de Goumoëns – Rase Campagne

Jonathan Daza Ospina – Silencio

Sara Dutch – Mife et Miso vont en bateau

Antoine Scalese – Hypersex

Loris Ciaburri – Lux Vitae

Pablo Guscetti – Chi ch'ien piü chiö

Léa Célestine Bernasconi – The mountains are still growing (Sound)

Victor Comte – Carne (Screenplay)

Rokhaya Balde – La passion d'Aline (Screenplay)

Marie Chemin – The mountains are still growing (Direction)

Leopold Helbich Frey – The Scent of Burning Time (Direction)

Marine Maye – Mountain Flesh (Sound)

Yatoni Roy Cantu – Ramboy (Sound)

Matthias Joulaud – Ramboy (Direction)

Jiahui Huang – The mountains are still growing (Editing)

Balthus Kiss – In Vitro (Screenplay)

Michail Galanopoulos – The Parade (Direction)

Valentina Shasivari – Mountain Flesh (Direction)

Antoine Flahaut – The Parade (Editing)

Selin Dettwiler – Ramboy (Editing)

Massimo Del Gaudio – Le défilé (Sound)

Malou Briand – Dalia (screenplay)

Santiago Chacón – Ecce homo (direction)

Olivia Frey – Ecce homo (editing)

Nina Defontaine – Clémente (direction)

Ketsia Stocker – Europa (production)

Lucas Rubio Martinez – Europa (direction)

Raphaël Meyer – La Sentinelle (screenplay)

Vuk Vukmanovic – Soraya Luna (sound)

Paul Choquet – Tous les chemins (direction)