Prix RTS : Perspectives d'un doc – Selected Projects 2020

Book of the Past (Keigei Kakocho)

by Sophie Dascal 
Switzerland | 80'
Yan Decoppet - GoldenEggProduction
Expected release: February 2022

One of Japan’s last “whaling community” remains on the Japanese coast on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. Following the government’s reintroduction of whaling, the com- munity finds itself confronted with the discrepancy between traditional identity and contemporary values

Duty/Right to Rebel (D de révolte)

by Laura Cazador, Amanda Cortés
Switzerland | 75’
Mark Olexa - DOK Mobile
Expected release: August 2021
 

Jacques Fasel and Daniel Bloch are former members of an anti-capitalist group that carried out violent actions in Switzerland in the late 70s. This film portrays their revolt as a factual and intimate experience, questioning the manner in which these events have been represented until today.

Faustin, Edgar and Akihiko: a non-aligned friendship (Faustin, Edgar et Akihiko, une amitié non-alignée)

by Shyaka Kagame
Switzerland | 80'
Palmyre Badinier - Akka Films
Expected release: April 2022

Three university friends in their seventies, an ex–FARC member, a former fighter of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, and a Japanese clergyman of The Unification Church, go backwards on the road that they once travelled from Moscow to Western Europe in 1968.

I + THEY = US (JE + ILS + ELLES = NOUS)

by Séverine Barde
Switzerland | 90’
Florence Adam - JMH & FILO Films
Expected release: April 2024

A remarkable and yet commonplace adventure following eighteen pupils during their first four years at school, together with two teachers, in a Geneva neighbourhood housing people with many different backgrounds.

In the Name of Roses (Au nom des roses)

by Daniel Wyss
Switzerland | 80’
Stéphane Goël - Climage
Expected release: April 2022

This film follows the incredible journey of the Valentine’s Day roses. We will immerse ourselves in this absurd, surreal, disturbing and poetic universe. A multi-billion-dollar market in the name of love, a very high-risk market, where every lost second costs millions. A documentary on the madness of men and on love in the age of globalised capitalism.

Origins

by Raphaël Sibilla, Jérome Piguet
Switzerland | 90’, 52'
Jonas Schneiter - Nous Production
Expected release: January 2022

Only 40 years old and DJ Luciano already has a 20-year career behind him. He feels deeply concerned about the disappearance of sounds around the globe. In a film conceived as a sound immersion, we will discover how a seemingly superficial char- acter can turn out to be essential in trying to save the most fragile sounds.

The Gift (Faiseuse de secret)

by Pauline Jeanbourquin
Switzerland | 85’
Flavia Zanon - Close Up Films
Expected release: February 2026

Aaliyah is an ordinary teenager living in the Swiss countryside. On the eve of her fif- teenth birthday her great-grandfather announces that he has chosen her as his one heir. Aaliyah will receive the “Secret”, an ancient healing gift.

Witch ! (Sorcière !)

by Director.s to be determined
Switzerland, France | 90’
Ève Minault, Author
Thalia Rebinsky, Author
Pauline Gygax - Rita Productions
Expected release: January 2022

Witch ! aims to rehabilitate the figure of the witch in our society and wants to empower everyone of us to reconnect to the witch we already are.