Shorts by Zoel Aeschbacher and Rolf Hellat
Invited by the Regard Festival, two Swiss short film directors, Zoel Aeschbacher and Rolf Hellat, are visiting Quebec. We are hosting them for an evening to discover their worlds, full of invention and thirsting for reality.
In the presence of the filmmakers
A teenager in search of recognition, a worker ready to do anything to hit the jackpot, a senior executive at the end of his career who wants to prove (to himself) that he is still alive. Three characters who are losing their way on the competition highway.
Residents of a flat share discuss the purchase of a new vacuum cleaner. A genuine film about group dynamics, democracy and daily living together, in which banality, poetry and humour are mixed.
Félix, Ana and Seydoux live in the same social housing without knowing each other. The three characters seem linked by one and only element: the building’s dilapidated elevator, an infernal machine leading them to an inescapable tragic destiny.
An audiovisual poem about life, death, body and nature, loneliness and connectedness. This collective and personal experiment fathoms existence associatively.
Zoel Aeschbacher
Born in 1993 in Paris, Zoel Aeschbacher is of Swiss and Vietnamese origin. Marked by the short films of the Kourtrajmé collective, he began experimenting with a DV camera. In 2017 he completed a Bachelor in Film at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL). His graduation film, Bonobo (2017), premiered in international competition at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and received the audience award. It also won the Student Academy Award for best student film in 2019. Fairplay (2022) premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and received the Pardi di Domani Junior Jury Awards.
Rolf Hellat
Rolf Hellat studied film at the ZHDK in Zurich. He attended an exchange program at the film institute of India in Pune. Since then, he has made fictional and documentary films as a director and editor, which have been shown at Palm Springs Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival, among others. He is interested in everyday conflicts that are emblematic of larger controversies. He seeks to understand connections between humans in all their diversity and desires humanity as a humble part of nature. He is constantly in a state of learning and tries to reflect his privileges - to hopefully contribute to a world of solidarity, inclusion, and tolerance.
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