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CHRIS THE SWISS
CHRIS THE SWISS

• Director: Anja Kofmel
• SWITZERLAND, CROATIA, GERMANY, FINLAND / 2018 / DCP / Colour and B&W / 90’ / German, Spanish, English; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Anja Kofmel
• Director of Photography: Simon Guy Fässler
• Editing: Stefan Kälin Canlandırma Animation: Simon Eltz
• Music: Marcel Vaid
• Producer: Samir, Siniša Juricic, Heino Deckert, Iikka Vehkalahti
• Production Co.: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Nukleus Film, MA.JA.DE. Filmproduktion, IV Films
• World Sales: Urban Distribution International

- 2019 TRIESTE -- Best Film, Best Documentary
- 2018 ADELAIDE -- Special Mention Award
- 2018 ZURICH -- Best Film

Combining documentary and animation in her feature-length debut, Swiss filmmaker Anja Kofmel is trying to uncover the mystery surrounding the death of her young cousin who was killed under suspicious circumstances in the Yugoslavian civil war. Premiered at the Critics’ Week section of Cannes, Chris the Swiss underscores its narrative with poetically drawn, almost gothic monochromatic animation. Kofmel objectively probes the reasons that compel young men to heed the call of war in faraway lands and gives a touching elegy to doomed youth.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.