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Documentary film workshop with Guillaume Brac
with Guillaume Brac
The 2022 documentary workshop was lead by Guillaume Brac. In partnership with the Lausanne Sport!
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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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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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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.
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Charlène Girel – Outside (Direction)
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
It is raining in the park. Natacha and her son Eli are looking for a shelter for the night. Walter wanders alone with his guitar.
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Sebastián Friedmann – Being a ghost
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Serge discovers what being a ghost is like but Martial, an old spirit, prevents him from having fun.
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Gabriel Colban – Balthazar and Madalena
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
In the midst of an aerobatic flight, a canonball woman meets a trapeze artist. A haunted love story.
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Axel Bezençon – Being a ghost (Editing)
by Axel Bezençon
Serge discovers what being a ghost is like but Martial, an old spirit, prevents him from having fun.
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Michaela Theus – Dehors (Photography)
with Josée Deshaies
It is raining in the park. Natacha and her son Eli are looking for a shelter for the night. Walter wanders alone with his guitar.
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Elias Ben Khalifa – We are the others
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Karim and Adin are childhood friends. They haven't seen each other for a long time and get together for a drink to make up for lost time.
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Alexandre Brulé – The new millenium
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
On the eve of Y2K, Christine finally introduces her lover, Mina, to her parents. The evening promises to be strange.
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Matias Carlier – Fever
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Two young skateboarders decide to go to a party, their evening gets complicated.
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Screening at the Swiss Culture Centre, Paris
ECAL and the Centre culturel suisse, Paris present the films made during the "Selfportrait and violence" workshop led by Mio Rau (playwright and theatre director at NTGhent Theatre) and Giacomo Bisordi (playwright and director).
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Aurel Ganz – Montana 1977 (photography)
with Josée Deshaies
Rey and Moretti are two undercover narc in the middle of a police operation in the Swiss mountains of Valais. It’s during a routine operation that one of them will do a terrible mistake and together they will have to escape from this difficult situation.
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Thibault Villard – Those who care to know each other (photography)
with Josée Deshaies
Two figures meet in a pitch black room to make love. Once the lights are on, Lucien and Anton are faced with their differences but are drawn even closer together.
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Nora Longatti – Strangers
with Laurent Larivière
A young woman challenges the daily grind with an unusual habit: getting in touch with strangers.
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Nikita Merlini – Rondinella
with Laurent Larivière
Staying with her mother after the fire, Sofia dreams of freedom. But the smell of smoke doesn't leave..
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Rodrigo Muñoz – Tarmac (direction)
with Laurent Larivière
Wednesdays after school Inès meets Julien on the train. The other passengers watch them.
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Thibault Rodrigues – Taking the desert (editing)
by Thibault Rodrigues
Cevennes, 1702. In a totalitarian political state, four men take up arms.
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Kimyan Flückiger – Montana 1977
with Laurent Larivière
A short film by Kimyan Flückiger
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Natasha Degrandi – Imperial (editing)
by Natasha Degrandi
At dawn, a cannon shatters the silence. The horses gallop across the beaten ground. Eva, 21, wants to join the Imperial HorseGuards, a historical reenactment of a Napoleonic regiment reserved for men.
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Lucas Giordano – Askêsis
with Laurent Larivière
Two imprisoned brothers, with no dreams or realities, seek a bit of air to breathe.
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Fanny Reynaud – Nebraska (photography)
with Josée Deshaies
The movie tells two stories that temporalities each other ultimately : the encounter between a Swiss farmer and a Portuguese traveler, and a cow’s pregnancy.
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Théodora Menthonnex – Tarmac / Nebraska (sound)
by Théodora Menthonnex
My graduation project consisted of doing the sound recording for two films, one in the heart of the Swiss mountains, the other in the hustle and bustle of the city.
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Lou-Théa Papaloïzos – Nebraska
with Laurent Larivière
Two stories temporalities each other ultimately : the encounter between a Swiss farmer and a Portuguese traveler, and a cow’s pregnancy.
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Coline Confort – Imperial (direction)
with Laurent Larivière
At dawn, a cannon shatters the silence. The horses gallop across the beaten ground. Eva, 21, wants to join the Imperial HorseGuards, a historical reenactment of a Napoleonic regiment reserved for men.
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«Heidi en Chine», une affaire de famille
Diplômé de l'ECAL en 2002 Après deux documentaires remarqués ( Le Mariage en Afrique et Des Bleus dans la police ), il décidait en 2009 de filmer l’installation en Chine d’une famille fribourgeoise, restant sagement derrière sa caméra, en observateur, comme pour éviter de devoir affronter lui-même cette immersion dans un pays dont il est, qu’il le veuille ou non, issu. C’est alors, pour la première fois, qu’il a ressenti le besoin de partir à la découverte de ses racines. Car ne dit-on pas qu’il est impossible de savoir où l’on va si on ne sait pas d’où l’on vient?
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ECAL Cinema book 2019
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Léonard Vuilleumier – Dans ces rues / These streets will never look the same
with Thomas Cailley, Elsa Amiel
Leandre goes looking for a stranger named Tristan in order to give him some bad news about a mutual friend.
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Colombe Rubini – Under The Fish Scales
with Thomas Cailley, Elsa Amiel
Max, a 23-year-young man, works in his father's fish shop. In this family business, the days are long and repeat themselves. The arrival of Zoe, an enthusiastic and full of life trainee, disturbs the routine of Max and leads him to rethink his future with seemed to him to be a foregone conclusion.
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Belle Dune - "See You Later, Alligator..."
with Thomas Cailley, Josée Deshaies, Elsa Amiel
A police investigation in Belle Dune, a small seaside resort in the north of France. This graduation film is a pilote of a series.
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Moreno Cabitza – Bats In The Night
with Thomas Cailley, Elsa Amiel
Beamo has a dare given by his brother: sneak into an abandoned house and bring back an object.
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Suze
with Thomas Cailley, Josée Deshaies, Elsa Amiel
After their passionate night, Suze will find out she is allergic to her new friend.
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Julietta Korbel – Still Working
with Thomas Cailley, Elsa Amiel
The guardian of a factory doomed to be demolished is faced with the end of his universe…
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Adèle Beaulieu – Playing Hell
with Thomas Cailley, Elsa Amiel
22 year old Ava, goes to stay with her grandfather who lives in the Franches-Montagnes. They walk through forests together looking for Antoine who had disappeared that morning.
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Agnese Làposi – Alma in the herd
with Thomas Cailley, Elsa Amiel
Alma visits her older sister, who lives in a commune in the countryside. She meets a boy and a stolen cow in the garden.
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ECAL book 2018
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Pauline Deutsch – The night at the port
with Olivier Loustau, Alain Gomis
Émile is a security guard in the port of Strasbourg. One night, while he's on his tour of inspection, he has a strange encounter with a young woman sitting at the edge of the water…
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Juliette Menthonnex – Anywhere
with Olivier Loustau, Alain Gomis
Mia, a former trapeze artist from Florida finds herself at the head of a small circus with her husband in German-speaking Switzerland. Despite an exhausting nomadic lifestyle, Mia has faith in the circus tradition and patience while passing on this cultural heritage to her daughter Simone.
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Louis Hans-Moevi – Intercontinental
with Olivier Loustau, Alain Gomis
Sarjo is fired from the laundry of a luxury hotel where he was working. At night, before leaving this place for good, he steals an access card and enters into the clients corridors of the building.
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Diploma film sets