The Magic Trick
Switzerland, Planned for August 2025
FILM,
Fiction,
22 min.
- directed by
- Leyla Chykulina
- Written by
- Leyla Chykulina
- Status
- Post-production
A rebellious teenager, trapped in her mother's strict control, is drawn into a dark world where a mysterious stranger offers freedom through a twisted magic trick. But the price she pays forces her to question everything she has ever believed in.
credits
- World Premiere
- Planned for August 2025
- Original Version
- English (french/german subtitles), colour, DCP, 22 min.
- Production
- Leyla Chykulina
- Producer
- Leyla Chykulina
- directed by
- Leyla Chykulina
- Written by
- Leyla Chykulina
- Cinematography
- Oliver Peiler
- Editing
- Leyla Chykulina, Michelle Claase
- Location Sound Mix
- Pierluigi Gubello
- Sound Design
- Andrea Padovan
- Music
- Dominic Sambucco
- Compositing
- James Emmerich
- Lighting Design
- Nick Napodano
- Make up
- Selina Wipfli, Eni Ford
Cast
Leyla Chykulina as Jenna Rivera
Mike Ogden as Todd Grim
Cosima Seibold as Mutter
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Leyla Chykulina