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Naïla Ebinger – Cartilage (Direction)
with Denis Jutzeler
For my diploma project, I did the cinematography for the bachelor film of my classmate Arsène Fragnière: Cartilage.
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Loïc Pidoux – Betelgeuse (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Three young artists search for their place in the world, under the glow of supernova remnants.
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Hervé Ossent – The hole (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Guillaume, a young pig farmer, discovers that his father is indulging in bestiality.
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Donika Gashi – La vie de Lucy (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Lucy is a young Cro-Magnon woman, a descendant of Lucy the Australopithecus, who lives in a pre-historic, Stone Age, tribe.
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Matteo Friberg – Death to the hunchbacks (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Knight Borboron is poisoned and wants to apologize to Hildegund before dying.
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Arsène Fragnière – Cartilage (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
At the end of the night, Gaël will abandon his group of friends. As the evening progresses, however, they realize that something is wrong.
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Léa Favre – Who goes hunting... (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Today, Lea is going in search of a subject for a documentary film. When she believes she's finally caught her prey, the roles end up being reversed. The hunter becomes the hunted.
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Benjamin Eggenberger – The Stork's Lair (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
An alienating love between two beings who wish to have a child but cannot.
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Mégane Brügger – Mom dances (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
What remains of a mother after years of domestic violence? What remains of her body, her dignity and her strength? Surely words, memory and a few dance steps that can still be passed down.
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Maria Luiza Vaz – Where were you at night? (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Clara is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives alone with her mother in a small isolated house in the forest. Clara is full of vitality, but her depressive mother prevents her from breaking free. An encounter with a mysterious boy in the forest leads Clara to transgress her daily life.
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Pol Barrelet – Leave the hive (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Mila is tired of living in this small town and dreams of elsewhere. But leaving everything behind means even her closest friends.
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Camille Anker – Once there was a storm (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
In the passenger seat, a young woman waits for the end of the road unfolding beyond the window.
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Rémi Molleyres – The wild waltz (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Joseph discovers that Félicie, his fiancée, just killed her uncle and has decided to run away. A whole life collapses for the young couple.
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Jay Holdener – There were cowboys (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Daniel back from the USA, is given a mission by a ghostly Cowboy: to steal a Chevy El Camino.
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Ilan Dubi – Before ocean (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Léon has a tough night as he runs away from home to join Olivia on her journey to the ocean.
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Ilù Seydoux – Before ocean (Sound)
with Fanny Martin
My diploma work in sound engineering involved recording and sound editing the film Before ocean, directed by Ilan Dubi.
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Adrien Beroud – Before ocean (Scriptwriting)
with Antoine Russbach
Before being adapted into a short film, "Aire de Jeux" is my Bachelor project: a feature film script, a satirical comedy in the world of contemporary theatre.
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Giulia Goy – Rose on the farm (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Rose is a young filmmaker who's looking for a job. She decides to go on a course to retrain as a farmer. This is an inceptive story that questions our relationship with the land, with art, as well as the role of filmmakers as observers of our world.
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Remo Corazza – Satellites never fall from the sky (Photography)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
My diploma work consisted in being the cinematographer on the film Satellites never fall from the sky, which I co-directed with Matias Carlier, Ecal alumni in cinema, class of 2022.
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César Cadène – Before ocean (Photography)
with Agnès Godard
My ECAL graduation project involved making the photography of the film "Before the Ocean," written and directed by Ilan Dubi, a student director. Inspired by the cinema of the Safdie brothers and John Cassavetes, this film was a real technical and creative challenge.
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Marcello Balzaretti – There were cowboys (Photography)
with Agnès Godard
Infinitely disappointed by his recent pilgrimage to the USA for which he had great expectations, Daniel, back in Switzerland, goes back to his daily routine. One day appears before him a ghostly cowboy, giving him a mission: to steal a Chevy El Camino.
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Dario Willommet – Spiders in the heart (Photography)
with Céline Bozon
My diploma project consisted in accompanying the production of a short fiction film as a cinematographer. I was in charge of the camera and the lighting on the set.
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Alice Denyse Matthey-Jonais – Les mouches de Beni (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Beni, a young woman with bipolar disorder, forms a musical friendship with her 65-year-old neighbour Gégé.
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Pierre Daendliker – Drifting Away (Photography)
with Céline Bozon
For my end-of-study work, I had to design the photography for a graduation film.
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Olivia Calcaterra – The wonderful pain of the wild Broom (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
In the desert of southern Spain, a film designed to bring together animal and human emotions through the trauma of abandonment.
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Laurine Joyeux – Les mouches de Beni (Script supervisor)
with Julie Lupo
As a script supervisor, I worked with the director on her film, from the writing stage to the shooting.
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Yan Ciszewski – The great disappointement (Screenplay)
with Emmanuel Bourdieu
Two women come down from the top of a mountain, following a great disappointment.
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Marion Reymond – Drifiting away (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
A young caregiver uses her imagination to cope with the mourning of her mother and to escape from the nursing home where she works.
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Solène Mercier – Les mouches de Beni (Photography)
with Céline Bozon
For my degree, I did the photography of the short film Les mouches de Beni, directed by Alice-Denyse Matthey.
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Loris Theurillat – The wonderful pain of the wild Broom (Photography)
with Céline Bozon
Strongly attracted to cinematography in documentaries, I did the photography for Olivia Calcaterra’s short documentary film for her degree.
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Keerthigan Sivakumar – Doosra
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Vinoth, a refugee, is looking for a volunteer activity to escape his loneliness, but no one is willing to accept his help.
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Avril Lehmann – The Heiresses
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Luna returns to the family home where still lives her younger sister, Diana. Diana has been living alone in this large, dilapidated house since the death of their father.
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Yael Vallotton – Sleeping Water
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
In the small kitchen of a family home, two women in their fourties are chatting. Out of the blue, one of them kisses the other.
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Charlène Girel – Outside (Direction)
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
It is raining in the park. Natacha and her son Eli are looking for a shelter for the night. Walter wanders alone with his guitar.
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Sebastián Friedmann – Being a ghost
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Serge discovers what being a ghost is like but Martial, an old spirit, prevents him from having fun.
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Gabriel Colban – Balthazar and Madalena
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
In the midst of an aerobatic flight, a canonball woman meets a trapeze artist. A haunted love story.
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Axel Bezençon – Being a ghost (Editing)
by Axel Bezençon
Serge discovers what being a ghost is like but Martial, an old spirit, prevents him from having fun.
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Michaela Theus – Dehors (Photography)
with Josée Deshaies
It is raining in the park. Natacha and her son Eli are looking for a shelter for the night. Walter wanders alone with his guitar.
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Elias Ben Khalifa – We are the others
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Karim and Adin are childhood friends. They haven't seen each other for a long time and get together for a drink to make up for lost time.
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Alexandre Brulé – The new millenium
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
On the eve of Y2K, Christine finally introduces her lover, Mina, to her parents. The evening promises to be strange.
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Matias Carlier – Fever
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Two young skateboarders decide to go to a party, their evening gets complicated.
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Aurel Ganz – Montana 1977 (photography)
with Josée Deshaies
Rey and Moretti are two undercover narc in the middle of a police operation in the Swiss mountains of Valais. It’s during a routine operation that one of them will do a terrible mistake and together they will have to escape from this difficult situation.
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Thibault Villard – Those who care to know each other (photography)
with Josée Deshaies
Two figures meet in a pitch black room to make love. Once the lights are on, Lucien and Anton are faced with their differences but are drawn even closer together.
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Nora Longatti – Strangers
with Laurent Larivière
A young woman challenges the daily grind with an unusual habit: getting in touch with strangers.
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Nikita Merlini – Rondinella
with Laurent Larivière
Staying with her mother after the fire, Sofia dreams of freedom. But the smell of smoke doesn't leave..
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Rodrigo Muñoz – Tarmac (direction)
with Laurent Larivière
Wednesdays after school Inès meets Julien on the train. The other passengers watch them.
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Thibault Rodrigues – Taking the desert (editing)
by Thibault Rodrigues
Cevennes, 1702. In a totalitarian political state, four men take up arms.
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Kimyan Flückiger – Montana 1977
with Laurent Larivière
A short film by Kimyan Flückiger
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Natasha Degrandi – Imperial (editing)
by Natasha Degrandi
At dawn, a cannon shatters the silence. The horses gallop across the beaten ground. Eva, 21, wants to join the Imperial HorseGuards, a historical reenactment of a Napoleonic regiment reserved for men.
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Lucas Giordano – Askêsis
with Laurent Larivière
Two imprisoned brothers, with no dreams or realities, seek a bit of air to breathe.