Trinidad Barleycorn A miner in Germany’s last coal mine undergoing a gender change, a prima ballerina fighting to keep her status after becoming a mother, a repentant hooligan turned kickboxing champion, a father who fled the former Uruguayan dictatorship, rejected refugees awaiting deportation, and stuntwomen taking hit after hit for the film industry: to say that the 5th Swiss Films Previews at doc film fest Visions du Réel introduced us to strong characters is an understatement.
Six promising films soon to be launched on the festival circuit and the international market were selected for the event and pitched at VdR-Industry.
Five of them were directed (co-directed for “Red”) by women. Four of them are first features. By the quality of the excerpts and the originality of the themes that fit the times, all of them demand to be seen as finished film.
Here’s an overview of what’s coming up in the Swiss high-end documentary market.“Stuntwomen” (“Cascadeuses”) “Today, I got shot,” Petra sums up when her mother asks her about her day at work: an everyday occurrence for the Swiss stuntwoman, who has been working in Los Angeles with the world’s biggest stars for over 20 years.
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