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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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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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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
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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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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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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Sarah Rathgeb – Stray (direction)
by Sarah Rathgeb
Joana has just moved in with her boyfriend and her dog Boris. This is an important step in their relationship, a life-changing step.In their new apartment they have everything they need for their future together: except a mattress. sarah.rathgeb@hotmail.com
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Elisa Gómez Alvarez – Soraya Luna (direction)
with Pedro Pinho
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. gomezalvarez@gmx.de http://www.elisagomezalvarez.com
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Noémie Guibal – Taking the desert (direction)
by Noémie Guibal
Cevennes, 1702. In a totalitarian political state, four men take up arms.
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Olivia Frey – Ecce homo (editing)
by Olivia Frey
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. oliviaandreafrey@googlemail.com
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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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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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Sayaka Mizuno – The invisible sanctuary
by Sayaka Mizuno
In Kyoto, the former imperial capital of Japan, Masayo Fujio and Nobuko Takahashi narrates the painful account of their life. Through their stories, mingled with that of the district, Suujin, the past of an invisible Japanese community that is still discriminated against today gradually surfaces again.
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Jorge Cadena – Sister Jarariju
by Jorge Cadena
In the middle of an austere landscape contaminated by a coal mine in northern Colombia, Viviana and Yandris, two teenage sisters of the Wayuu ethnic group, discover their traditions through ancestral rituals. At the death of their father and, in an act of audacity and courage, the sisters Jarariju leave their country.
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Robin Mognetti – We’ve not like spiders nets from grief’s saliv.
by Robin Mognetti
Suffering from insomnia, Nina, a young woman leaves Paris to return in Provence, in his hometown. Following the unexplained disappearance of his sister, stranges phenomena take place and seem to be addressed to her. One night, Nina sees something, an apparition that will lead her in her sister's footsteps.
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Thomas Paulot – Heaven of the beasts
by Thomas Paulot
At night, the sky appears while the mysterious beast approaches. The astronomer and the hunter are pursuing the unknown.
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Hansaem Kim – Edge of the season
by Hansaem Kim
After the death of her father, Cloé and her mother go to their familial chalet on an isolated mountain to disperse his ashes. Between mourning and boredom, Cloé finds the courage to tell her mother that she does not want to see her anymore.
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Jules Pourchet – Off Piste
by Jules Pourchet
In the snowy peaks of Jura, a young man who is smooth in every respect is confronted with his own cowardice.
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Alain Guillebeau – Albin
by Alain Guillebeau
I lost my father at the age of two - too young to have kept any memories. For many years this loss haunted only my sub consciousness. Thirty years after his death, his grave was destroyed. I suddenly realize that I had never mourned my father and that I had to find out who he really was...
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Jonas Scheu – Ma Yan Chan - Waves of Transition
by Jonas Scheu
Since generations, the dockers and their families live and work at the Ayeyarwady riverbank in Mandalay, the ancient royal capital of Myanmar. In a time of great transition, their lifestyle is subdued to lasting transformations. Against their will, the authorities try to dislocate them into newly built concrete buildings.
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Fisnik Maxhuni – Lost Exile
by Fisnik Maxhuni
Emir works for the local mafia as courier between Serbia and Hungary to repay its debts.
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Colia Vranici – Honey is sweeter than blood
by Colia Vranici
18 year old Lucia is on edge. Her grandfather is seriously ill and she refuses to accept the fact that he’s dying. In an unsuccessful attempt to take her mind off it, she seeks comfort in the arms of Rabah, a local guy, with whom she has a tumultuous fling.
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Jennifer Saparzadeh – The Night of Songs
by Jennifer Saparzadeh
Created in the tradition of experimental cinema, The Night of Songs evokes at once the desperation with which we seek our origins and our intimate desire to reach toward the sky . A deported man is lost between these two worlds, these two hopes.
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Frédéric Favre – Cyclic
by Frédéric Favre
Shot in the bike messenger scene in Lausanne, « CYCLIC » tells the story of three messengers having issues fitting into society and growing up.
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Juliana Fanjul – Muchachas
by Juliana Fanjul
My grandmother’s death brought me back to Mexico City, where my eyes were opened as to on how unfair our relationship with the maids had been. To what extent was I also responsible for the invisibility of these women, who had always lived around me?
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Pablo Briones – A Barça
by Pablo Briones
The passage of time, of the river, of the clouds. Hundreds of people rush to board a boat that will take them to work. Behind them, the dormitory town: a space beyond time where landscape and identity are ardently shaped by the ambiguities of the world of work.
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Caroline Cuénod – Des yeux partout
with Cécile Vargaftig, Solveig Anspach, Lionel Baier, Jean Perret
This ageless woman who tracks every CCTV camera in the city, would she aggree to go to Monaco?
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Karin Bachmann – Er/Ich
with Lionel Baier, Andreas Horvath, Jean Perret
Erich is my enemy, because his political policies are against foreigners. He’s a strange to me, so am I xenophobic like him?
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Laurence Favre – Nwa-Mankamana
with Solveig Anspach, Lionel Baier, Jean Perret, Cécile Vargaftig
Subjective exploration of a Swiss missionary’s archives (films and letters) in South Africa.
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Simona Canonica – Con la licencia de Dios
with Lionel Baier, Thomas Isler, Nino Kirtadze
In an isolated village in the Mexican desert, Griselda lives with the wind, silence and suspended time. She looks at life with humanity and pragmatism. Her husband emigrated to the United States, and like other women in the village, the children and the old, Griselda lives in a state of waiting…
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Louise Carrin – Tape Amanda, tape !
by Louise Carrin
Amanda trains daily in a boxing club. Through these moments of break and surpassing herself, she confronts this male universe and discovers a world that escapes her.
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Michele Pennetta – I cani abbaiano
by Michele Pennetta
Roberto lives in a Fiat Panda parked close to the ruins of what once was the post office while Felice still lives in his damaged home. They are the last inhabitants of the ghost village of Camarda which was totally ruined and abandoned following the earthquake of the 6th of April...
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Claudia Reynicke – La Chienne
by Claudia Reynicke
Agnes is 15 years old and her sexual awakening is in full bloom. Abandoned by her mother, she tries to find a balance between the isolated life with her grandparents in the mountains and her boyfriend, who proposes her to go away with him...
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Filippo Filliger – Comme une lettre à la Poste
with Lionel Baier
Franco is studying history at the university. His girlfriend, Giulia, a young and dynamic woman, criticizes him for his existential inertia, which hinders him from growing up. After Franco finally manages to submit his final thesis, his professor rejects it, but steals his ideas for an article of his own. When Franco starts to search for evidence, he discovers the somewhat unorthodox sexual practices of his professor...