Chris the Swiss
- Title: Chris the Swiss
- Year of production: 2018
- Duration: 90`
- Director: Anja Kofmel
- Screenwriters: Anja Kofmel, Marjan Alčevski
- Camera: Simon Guy Faessler
- Sound: Markus Krohn
- Editing: Stefan Kälin
- Music: Marcel Vaid
- Producers: Samir , Siniša Juričić, Heino Deckert, Iikka Vehkalahti
- Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion (CH) , Nukleus film , Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions (DE) , IV Films OY
Croatia, January 1992. In the midst of the Yugoslav Wars, Chris, a young Swiss journalist is found dead in mysterious circumstances. He was wearing the uniform of an international mercenary group. Anja Kofmel was his cousin. As a little girl, she used to admire this handsome young man; now a grown-up woman, she decides to investigate his story, trying to understand what really was the involvement of Chris in the conflict…
Director:
Born in 1982 in Lugano, Switzerland. 2005-09 Studies animation at the HSLU (Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst). 2007 Assistant director on “Letter to Anna” by Eric Bergkraut. 2009 Receives degree from the HSLU.
Filmography
As director:
2018 Chris the Swiss
2009 Chrigi
2005 Selling Shoes, Boxe...
Festivals where it was shown:
- 2019. - Motovun film festival (Motovun, Croatia)
- 2018. - Cannes Film Festival (Cannes, France)
- 2018. - Karlovy Vary IFF (Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic)
- 2018. - World Festival of Animated Film Animafest (Zagreb, Croatia)
- 2018. - 71st Locarno Film Festival (Locarno, Switzerland)
- 2018. - Annecy International Animated Film Festival (Annecy, France)
- 2018. - 33rd Midnight Sun Film Festival (Sodankylä, Finland)
- 2018. - 24th Sarajevo Film Festival (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 2019. - 17th DokuFest (Prizren, Kosovo)
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