Home to screen in Critics’ Week
After the selections of Cannes’ prestigious sections were unveiled, it became clear that Ursula Meier’s new film Home [+see also:
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The second feature by the Swiss-French director of Strong Shoulders stars Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Kacey Mottet Klein, Madeleine Budd and Adélaïde Leroux.
Produced by Swiss company Box Productions (Elena Tatti and Thierry Spicher), French-speaking Swiss Television and SRG SSR idée suisse, the title is co-produced by France (Archipel 35 and France 3) and Belgium (Need Productions and RTBF). Home is being sold internationally by Memento Films International.
The film – which was shot in Romania – recounts how a motorway causes a family breakdown.
Swiss documentary Chrigu by Jan Gassmann and the late Christian Ziörjen – which screened at the Berlin Film Festival – is to be presented in the Acid (Agency for Independent Film Distribution) sidebar. An ode to friendship and life, the film subtly retraces the experience of inescapable death.
Two minority Swiss co-productions will also screen in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival: Salt of This Sea by Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir (produced by Pierre-Alain Meier of Zurich-based Thelma Film) and Tulpan by Kazakh director Sergey Dvortsevoy (produced by Valerie Fischer of Cobra Film).
(Translated from French)
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