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Marcel Barelli is an animation filmmaker. He attended the Haute école d’art et de design - Genève, cinema department. He develops all his projects around animals and nature. His short films have been selected in hundreds of international film festivals and won numerous awards around the world. 

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STORY

In nature, a couple is a male and a female. Well, not always! A couple is also a female and a female. Or a male and a male. You may not know it, but homosexuality isn't just a human story. 

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Leon Riener is a young talent, who produced films since his early years and decided to start a career as a freelance filmmaker for documentaries, outdoor and image films.  

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Three teams of the ETH Zurich are trying to explain science by using art. Once the scientists had their hiking gear and robots ready, their only mission was “Over hill and dale to the summit”. How easy will it be to climb a peak with a four-legged walking robot and an exoskeleton? 

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Pablo Martin Torrado While majoring in English literature and philology, he began evolving towards cinema. After finishing a master of Theory and Criticism of Cinema at the University ômpeu Fabra, Barcelona, Pablo moved to Geneva to make his first feature film. 

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A hypothesis about the whole human wisdom, enlightened in a bureaucratic waiting room. 

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Georges Schwizgebel attended the School of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts in Geneva (1960-65), then worked in an advertising agency. In 1970, he founded GDS Studio and began producing and directing short animated films.   

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The return of three Anglicized natives to their country, or the beginning of a meeting with the modern world that will destroy them.

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Eileen Schilliger is a master’s student in geography at the University of Bern. As part of her final thesis in geography, she produced a film with the intent to foster the co-production of knowledge between practice and academia.    

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This is the everyday life of a Swiss shepherdess who walks with 450 sheep in winter. A portrait of her ongoing challenges and the future prospects of this profession in decline.

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Anna Fersztand is a social anthropologist. Using the various possibili- ties of film, she tries to reflect the complexity of the human being and thus also of language. The focus is on trauma and the unspeakable, which has an invisible and silent presence. This film was part of her master thesis at the University of Bern.    

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A man of Jewish origin, who survived the concentration camps, begins to tell his granddaughter the story of his youth. They put themselves together in quarantine following the corona pandemic.