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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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Workshop Heidi News
with Benoit Rossel, Arthur Lecoeur
Heïdi News asked the Ecal film department to create ten films based on a series of articles on the theme of food. The students had to make very short films of two to three minutes that could be broadcast on the newspaper's website and social networks.
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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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«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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ECAL book 2018
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Diplomas Screening 2017
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Diplomas Screening 2016
At the Swiss Film Archive
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Summer University Montréal
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Camera workshop with Barbet Schroeder
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Rehearsal
with Kaveh Bakhtiari
- Selected at IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) 2014 - Selected at International Clermont-Ferrand Shortfilm Festival 2015 Synopsis A choir teacher, pupils of the Lyon Conservatory. Their face-to-face confrontation: a rehearsal, the second to last before the end of the year show. Commentaire Le temps d’un cours de chant, un maître tente de hisser le niveau de ses élèves vers l’audible. Entre la lutte chamanique du professeur et les corps fébriles des adolescents, un territoire inaccessible devient possible. Les souffles archaïques se font harmonie, Robert Schumann n’est alors plus une simple évocation mais une invocation par des adolescents en mutation, captifs entre deux mondes. Kaveh Bakhtiari Rehearsal on Swissfilms.ch
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Being too serious
with Sébastien Lifshitz
Martin has just been dumped and spends the night hanging out with David, a friend he hasn’t seen for a long time.
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Meat
with Hippolyte Girardot
Marcel and Suzanne are curious as to what human flesh tastes like. They decide try it out.
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Night's dream
with Hippolyte Girardot
A night party like others. Julie is looking for her friend Sara.
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Istanbul In & Out
with Lionel Baier, Kaveh Bakhtiari
The first year Bachelor Cinema class of ECAL went round Istanbul during a whole week, accompanied by the director Kaveh Bakhtiari.
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I've got a power
with Denis Gheerbrant
This is the testimonial of a friendship between the director and his friend Mirko, with whom he spent his childhood playing with "Playmobil"-figures in a fantasy world.
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Brother and Sister
with Sébastien Lifshitz
Ismail and his sister are driving back from the airport. The young man has just arrived in a new country, Switzerland, whilst his sister has been here for a couple of month.
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Happyland
with Denis Gheerbrant
Happyland, an amusement park in Switzerland, surrounded by mountains. A film on the people who work there, two women: one young and the other less so.
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Elie
with Sébastien Lifshitz
Jules is a young man, he is twenty one years old. His grand father is about to die. He is afraid to loose him. He decide to go and find a Rabin his grandfather used to know. During this travel, Jules mourns and grows up.
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Spare time
with Dominique Marchais
Two young women live together in a brothel. The camera captures their daily life in their hours away from work.
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In your arms
with Sébastien Lifshitz
A mother and daughter, two Portuguese immigrants. An evening watching series. The atmosphere becomes suffocating.
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The Girls' Grave
with Frédéric Mermoud
Sissi and Victoria are sisters. Whereas the younger is slowly emerging from the world of childhood, the elder tries in vain to be grown up. In the room that they share, Sissi is preparing for her gymnastic compétition and Victoria has boys coming and going...
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The Ambassador & me
with Jean-Stéphane Bron
A son, a father. The first one holds a camera; the second one holds the title ambassador. The camera trembles, the ambassador remains.
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Born behind the stones
with Jean-Stéphane Bron
From the photographs of my family and that of my boyfriend, I realize the portrait of two clans that everything opposes. And between the two: me.
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Shabbat, thank god !
with Valérie Donzelli
Why tell the truth if a lie can help me achieve my aims ? Here the doctrine of Yigael, youthful inner-city Don Juan that too often forgets that lying is an art.
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Kwa Heri Mandima
with Jean-Stéphane Bron
Childhood pictures, the departure from Zaire when I was 10, my friends Watumu, Angi and Amosi, the big shift from a culture to another, identity, memories and footage...
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Raphaël comme Geminiani
with Jean-Stéphane Bron
What's in a name? Raphaël is trying to meet the man after whom he is named, a former cycling star.
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Spaghetti alle vongole
with Didier Nion
Longing to renew relations with her absent father, a young woman finally finds the courage to confront him with the questions she has always wanted to ask.