PREVIEWS WINTERTHUR 2025 SWISS FILMS
SYLVAIN VAUCHER
ANDREAS BÜHLMANN
SWISS FILMS TEAM
WINTER 2025/26
ABOUT RIGHT HERE
directed by Ada Beaulieu
Garance ends up stranded in a small Acadian village on Canada’s east coast, waiting for a bus that won’t arrive until the next day. As she drifts through this unfamiliar francophone world, she meets Maggie – a young woman who takes her under her wing. In this suspended moment, new desires begin to surface.
ADA BEAULIEU
* 1998 in France. Ada Beaulieu is of joint Swiss and French nationality. She graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor in Cinema from the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) with her short film PLAYING HELL (2020), starring Jean-François Stévenin. Since 2019, she has been working on professional film shoots, or as a sound editor and production assistant. ABOUT RIGHT HERE is her third short film, which she directed while writing her first feature film.
SWITZERLAND
Fiction, 23 min.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: French
CAST:
Clémentine Le Bas, Bianca Richard, Viola Le Breton, Xénia Gould, Maude Sonier, RoseBeef
SCREENPLAY: Ada Beaulieu, Yan Ciszewski
PRODUCTION:
Imajack Films, Lausanne / RTS
PRODUCER: Marion Poissonneau
WORLD RIGHTS:
Imajack Films, Lausanne www.imajack.ch
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CONTACT: Marion Poissonneau
Imajack Films marion@imajack.ch
KEEP ON SPINNING
written
& directed
by Christina Benz
In a London launderette, we meet Aisie, Justine and Shish, three Londoners in their forties and fifties, full of optimism and creativity. They share life stories as colourful as a pile of laundry. While their washing is spinning, hand-drawn animations explore existential human themes: of life’s dreams and passions, but also failure and transience. These Londoners are not defeated by setbacks, they tackle challenges with perseverance and zest.
WORLD RIGHTS:
Roundabout Film, Zurich www.roundaboutfilm.com
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Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT:
Sereina Gabathuler
Roundabout Film sereina@roundaboutfilm.com
SWITZERLAND
Anidoc, 15 min.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: English
ANIMATION TECHNIQUE: Mixed technique, Sand animation
PRODUCTION: Roundabout Film, Zurich/ SRG SSR/SRF
PRODUCER: Sereina Gabathuler
CHRISTINA BENZ
* 1972. Christina Benz graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College in London. She received her Master of Arts from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2010. Focussing on the moving image, her video projects and installations are shown at international galleries, art fairs and festivals. Her work addresses cultural and social aspects of our times.
GROPPOS GARTEN
GROPPO’S GARDEN
written
& directed by Cécile Brun
Cléo tries to escape from the world in her grandfather Groppo’s garden, but it is precisely there that she is forced to find her way back to herself by way of painfully repressed memories.
CÉCILE BRUN
* 1986. Cécile Brun graduated with a Bachelor in Animation from Lucerne School of Art, Film and Design (HSLU) in 2011. She also completed an exchange semester in comics at the École Supérieure des Arts (ESA) St-Luc Bruxelles. She is known for her awardwinning short films ZMITZT DRIN (2011) and YURI (2010). Both of these, as well as her most recent short film LAH GAH (2019), were screened at numerous international film festivals. She works as a director, illustrator and film projectionist in Zurich.
SWITZERLAND
Animation, 12 min.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Swiss-German
ANIMATION TECHNIQUE: Cutout animation, Mixed technique
PRODUCTION:
Asako Film GmbH, Zurich/SRF PRODUCERS:
Anja Kofmel, Frances McStea
WORLD RIGHTS:
Asako Film GmbH, Zurich www.asakofilm.ch
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CONTACT: Frances McStea
Asako Film frances@asakofilm.ch
SPRING 2026
DAD ALOFT
(working title)
directed by Basile Vuillemin
PAPA PERCHÉ (working
title)
A young father, locked in a custody battle with his ex-husband, climbs to the top of a crane to demand justice. But his time up there doesn’t go quite as planned.
WORLD RIGHTS:
Imaginastudio, Lausanne www.imagina.studio/en/
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Int. Festival Premiere CONTACT:
Arnaud Gantenbein Imaginastudio arnaud.gantenbein@imaginastudio.com
SWITZERLAND / BELGIUM
Fiction, 22 min.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: French CAST:
Grégory Carnoli, Antonio Buíl, Isabelle De Hertogh
SCREENPLAY:
Blandine Jet, Basile Vuillemin PRODUCTION: Imaginastudio, Lausanne / Boucan, Brussels / RTS
SWISS PRODUCER: Arnaud Gantenbein
BASILE VUILLEMIN
* 1990 in France. Basile Vuillemin is a Swiss-French director. He lived in Geneva prior to obtaining his Master in directing at the Institut des arts de diffusion(IAD) in Brussels. All his films, from social drama to dark comedy, show his appeal for graphic composition and his passion for actors. His previous short THE SILENT ONES (2022) was nominated for a César for Best Short Film and won the Magritte Award for Best Fiction Short Film in 2024.
AIR HORSE ONE by Lasse Linder
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Jules Carrin
MANUAL OF SELF-DESTRUCTION by Elisa Baccolo
RELAY by Thilo Gundelach
THOSE WHO HEAR THE SUN by Maurizius Staerkle Drux
SWISS COMPETITION
ALWAYS WANTED TO BE GOD, NEVER WANTED TO DO GOOD by Noa Epars, Marvin Merkel
AMIGS HANI ANGSCHT by Jiani Fei
DËMM by Aïda Captijn
DO YOU LOVE ME STILL? by Jelena Vujovic
DOUBLE OR NOTHING by Tokay
FELL IN LOVE WITH A BOOK by Melina Hofer, Jana Schlegel
FUJI by Lou Aelvoet, Valentin Sogan
I’M NOT SURE by Luisa Zürcher
L’AVANT-POSTE 21 by Camille Surdez
LIVING WELL by Zoé Nathalie Kugler
STEFI by Dejan Barac
SYMBIONTS by Quirijn Dees
WHERE CATTLE IS SHEARED by Alexandre Schild
ZÜRI SHORTS
ASTRA LA VISTA by Johannes Bachmann LOAD by Simone Tschirren
LOUD LOVE by Lea Bloch
SEEN VOICES by Andrin Fretz
THANKS, YOU TOO by Marion Täschler
TV OR THE DISTURBANCE ON FOREST HILL ROAD by Frederic Siegel
YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT’S DANGEROUS? by Levio Gioia
More Swiss films can be found in various sections.
VISIT US AT OUR STANDS AT: Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market
Berlinale European Film Market
Cannes Village International Annecy Mifa
SWISS FILMS
Neugasse 6, 8005 Zurich
www.swissfilms.ch
Published in November 2025