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Born of Frustration: Jela Hasler on Her Critics’ Week Short ‘On Solid Ground’

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Ann-Marie Corvin Swiss director Jela Hasler’s first fiction film “On Solid Ground,” one of the shorts to have been selected for Cannes’ sidebar Critics’ Week, charts the micro aggressions experienced by a woman living in a city, following her peaceful morning swim.While some of the incidents could be read as minor annoyances, a more dangerous encounter that occurs toward the end of the film, which renders the protagonist powerless and angry, invites the viewer to re-examine these earlier incidents.“The idea started with a feeling of frustration and wanting to escape but not being able to.

I developed it further to make it about a woman being continually harassed which leads to this feeling of wanting to defend herself – but not really.

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