Ostrich, Marie Kenov, CH 2025
Swiss competition 2025
Swiss Competition 1
Appointments & Tickets
Wed 3.9. • 18:30 - 20:00
Cinema Trafo 3
OUT
Thu 4.9. • 12:15 - 13:45
Cinema Trafo 2
Fri 5.9. • 16:15 - 17:45
Cinema Trafo 2
Sat 6.9. • 20:45 - 22:15
Cinema Trafo 2
12+
74'
Artist present
Presenting Partner
Selection Team
- Ivana Kvesić
- Jonathan Laskar
- Katja Morand
Swiss Jury
- Aubry Mintz (US)
- Lucija Mrzljak (HR)
- Julie Rousson (FR)
Youth Jury
- Titus Kappeler
- Eliana Simdorn
- Marc Ruedin
- Esteban Saugy
- Mina Caviezel
- Giona De Stefani
- Gianni Polli
Flying Film Festival Jury
- Francesca Scalisi (CH)
- Andrea Giovarruscio (IT)
- Dunja Keller (CH)
- Dayan Aliprandi (CH)
World premiers
- Der Vegetarierkongress Noah Erni, CH 2025
- Wacky Horses Touka Fatemi, Iara de Jong Gonçalves, Ysabel Steiner, Marija Simović, Anna Müller CH 2025
Films
The Vegetarian Congress, Noah Erni, CH 2025
Der Vegetarierkongress
At the 1999 International Vegetarian Congress in Widnau, a small village in eastern Switzerland, a mysterious case of food poisoning occurs. When the animators Marion and Noah come across the story, they decide to make an animated documentary about the case. Where does the truth lie 20 years on? Direction Noah Erni Duration 16' Language German, Swiss German Country Switzerland Year 2025
Animation
Marco Ellensohn, Noah Erni, Igor Kuzmi, Sarah Rothenberger, Remo Scherrer
Music
Pablo Jòkay
Sound design
Loïc Kreyden, Etienne Kompis, Thomas Gassmann
Qui part à la chasse, Lea Favre, CH 2024
Qui part à la chasse
Best Film & Best Swiss
Lea sets off to find a subject for her documentary film. She goes on the hunt armed with her camera and finally meets someone who is not like others. Lea thinks she has finally found her prey, but then the situation changes. She’s the one being hunted.
Animation
Constantin Rytz
Music
Erik Bonerfält
Sound design
Lara Wedekind
Caries, Aline Höchli, CH 2025
Karies
Fantastic Swiss
Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter.
Animation
Aline Höchli, Stefan Holaus
Music
Samuel Schranz
Sound design
Samuel Schranz
Wacky Horses, Touka Fatemi, Iara de Jong Gonçalves, Marija Simović, Ysabel Steiner, Anna Müller, CH 2025
Wacky Horses
The story of a young adult who travels into her mind space, an amusement park filled with rides representing her psyche and creatures reminiscent of her thoughts and feelings. On this journey, she learns to make peace with herself through meeting and interacting with her inner child. Direction Touka Fatemi, Iara de Jong Gonçalves, Ysabel Steiner, Marija Simović, Anna Müller Duration 4' Language English Country Switzerland Year 2025
Animation
Iara de Jong Gonçalves, Touka Fatemi, Anna Müller, Marija Simović
Music
Vitor Huber
Sound design
Leonardo Guerra
Frames, Theresa Sellmann, CH 2024
Frames
The interactions between figure and paper, animating person and animated world, and tuba and double bass lead to dynamic confrontations and balancing acts. The environment is constantly reshaped by overlapping sheets of paper. A space is created in which the figure transcends the boundaries between the frames. Direction Theresa Sellmann Duration 4' Country Switzerland Year 2024
Animation
Theresa Sellmann
Music
Annika Granlund
Sound design
Theresa Sellmann, Annika Granlund
I'm not sure, Luisa Zürcher, CH 2025
Ich bin nicht sicher
High Swiss Risk
During her stay in hospital, the filmmaker repeatedly experiences absurd, funny moments between pain, homesickness and disgust with her own body. Meanwhile, she tries to come to terms with the hospital’s own procedures and hierarchies. An emotional trip through the underground corridors of the hospital.
Animation
Luisa Zürcher
Music
Lord Kesseli
Sound design
Marvin Mata
Ostrich, Marie Kenov, CH 2025
Ostrich
Day in and day out, a sparrow sees images of ostriches everywhere: on posters, in ads and on its smartphone. In awe of the ostriches, with their long necks, dazzling eyes and muscular legs, the little bird wants to be just like them. One thing becomes crystal clear: A sparrow can never truly be an ostrich. Direction Marie Kenov Duration 9' Country Switzerland Year 2025
Animation
Fela Bellotto, Marco Ellensohn, Marie Kenov, Corinna Pugneth, Martine Ulmer
Music
Marcello Studer
Sound design
Loïc Kreyden, Etienne Kompis
Tapeworm Alexis & the Opera Diva, Thaïs Odermatt, CH 2025
Bandwurm Alexis & die Operndiva
The legendary tapeworm diet of the world’s most famous opera diva is told in a tragicomic way from the perspective of the tapeworm Alexis. Direction Thaïs Odermatt Duration 11' Language English Country Switzerland Year 2025
Animation
Geena Gasser, Nils Hedinger, Stefan Holaus, Carlos Isabel García, Igor Kuzmic, Irmgard Walthert
Sound design
Peter Bräker