18 Swiss productions at DOK.fest Munich

Celebrating its world premiere in the DOK.international competition is “Andermatt – A Global Village”, Leonidas Bieri’s long-term study of how a Swiss alpine village was transformed into a luxury resort. Also screened in the DOK.international in Munich are the two coproductions “La Buena Vida – Das Gute Leben” by Jens Schanze and “Of Men and War” by Laurent Bécue-Renard, who was honoured with the VPRO IDFA Award for Best Documentary Film 2014 at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA).

Two Swiss film productions will be screened in the DOK.deutsch competition: Marcel Gisler’s “Electroboy” (Best Documentary Film, Swiss Film Award 2014); and “Freefalling – A Love Story” by Mirjam von Arx. No less than three Swiss productions were selected for the DOK.panorama section, which showcases documentary films with particular emphasis: Belina Sallin’s “Dark Star – HR Giger's World”, which will be released in cinemas in the USA on May 15; Fernand Melgar’s “The Shelter”, which has already been screened at numerous international festivals; and “A German Youth”, which premiered at this year’s Berlinale.

Screened in the DOK.special section is Nicolas Steiner’s “Above and Below” – the winner of the German Documentary Music Award at the DOK.fest Munich 2015 – together with the multi-award-winning film “Concrete Love - The Böhm Family” by Maurizius Staerkle-Drux, “Lucky Jack – Three Attempts to Stop Smoking” by Peter Liechti as well as “Ulrich Seidl - A Director at Work” by Constantin Wulff.

The short documentary films screened at the Film School Festival are: Fabian Kaiser’s “The Breath”; Raphaël Harari’s “Do you know Akane Okai?”; Juliana Fanjul’s “Muchachas”; and Michele Cirigliano’s “Padrone e sotto”, which already boasts a striking festival career. The coproduction “Das dunkle Gen” by Miriam Jakobs and Gerhard Schick will be screened in the Munich Premieres section.

A Swiss coproduction is even featured in the Avi Mograbi Retrospective: the Israeli filmmaker’s “Once I Entered A Garden”, coproduced by Dschoint Ventschr. 

SWISS FILMS, an industry partner of the DOK.fest Munich for the first time this year, will support a get together in conjunction with the DOK.forum on May 9.

SWISS FILMS, May 6, 2015

>> you can find more information on the Swiss films at 30. DOK.fest München as well as Swiss documentary projects coming soon in our e-Booklet DOC SPRING 2015