HEIMATLAND
directed by Lisa Blatter, Gregor Frei, Jan Gassmann, Benny Jaberg, Carmen Jaquier, Michael Krummenacher, Jonas Meier, Tobias Nölle, Lionel Rupp, Mike Scheiwiller
A hurricane of catastrophic proportions is brewing over Switzerland. The country is in a state of emergency. Ten directors from a new generation of filmmakers imagine how the Swiss would deal with the worst possible disaster: the downfall of their country.
Festivals & Awards
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Switzerland: 68° Festival del film Locarno, Competition, 05.–15. August 2015
Switzerland: 7. Gässli Film Festival, 03.–06. September 2015
Switzerland: 4. Berner Filmpreis Festival, Competition, 22.Oktober–01. November 2015
Estonia: 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, 13.–29. November 2015
Germany: 37. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken, Competition, 18.–24. Januar 2016
Switzerland: 51. Solothurner Filmtage, 21.–28. Januar 2016
British Columbia: 22nd Victoria Film Festival, 05.–14. Februar 2016
Mexico: Guadalajara, 31° Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara, 04.-13. März 2016
Switzerland: 20. Filmfestival Schaffhausen, 16.–20. März 2016
Czech Republic: FEBIOFEST 23rd International Film Festival Prague, 17.–25. März 2016
France: Mauvais Genre- Festival International de Cinéma de Tours, Kategorie: cérémonie de clôture, 24.-28. März 2016
Turkey: 35th Istanbul Film Festival, Kategorie: Human Rights in Cinema Competition, 7.-17.April 2016
Austria: Crossing Europe, Filmfestival Linz, Kategorie: Competition, 20.-25. April 2016
Kosovo: PriFest- Film Festival Pristina, Kategorie: European Competition, 22.-29. April 2016
Belgium: Film Festival Brüssel, Kategorie: European Panorama, 17.-24. Juni 2016
Switzerland: 16th Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, 01.–09. Juli 2016
Peru: 20° Festival de Cine de Lima, 05.–13. August 2016
England: Cambridge Film Festival, 20.–27. Oktober 2016
Italy: 14th Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival, Competition, 22. Oktober - 01. November 2016
Ukraine: 46th Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist, 22.–30. Oktober 2016
France: 17e Festival International du Film d'Arras, 04.-13. November 2016
France: 12e Festival Augenblick - festival du cinéma de langue allemande en Alsace, 08.11.2016 – 25.11.2016
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2:1 Film in coproduction with CONTRAST FILM and PASSANTENFILM
WITH
PETER PETER JECKLIN
GORAN DASHMIR RISTEMI
SANDRA JULIA GLAUS
EVELINE MICHÈLE SCHAUB JACKSON
ADRIAN FLORIN SCHMIDIG
ROGER EGON BETSCHART
KEVIN GABRIEL NOAH MAURER
ROSI LIANA HANGARTNER
ALICE LUNA ARZONI
NINA SOUMEYA FERRO LUZZI
ERIC ROBERTO GARIERI
SILVAN NICOLAS BACHMANN
LIVIE MORGANE FERRU
Directors and Screenwriters LISA BLATTER GREGOR FREI JAN GASSMANN BENNY JABERG CARMEN JAQUIER MICHAEL KRUMMENACHER JONAS MEIER TOBIAS NÖLLE LIONEL RUPP MIKE SCHEIWILLER
Artistic Direction: JAN GASSMANN & MICHAEL KRUMMENACHER
Overall Dramaturgy: MICHAEL KRUMMENACHER
Script Development & Dramaturgy: MICHÈLE WANNAZ
Cinematography: SIMON GUY FÄSSLER DENIS D. LÜTHI GAËTAN VARONE
Art Direction: KARIN GIEZENDANNER SILVAN KUHL
Wardrobe: ANNE WEICK
Make-up: MARINA AEBI
Sound Recording: BERNHARD ZITZ
Gaffer: PETER DEMMER
Music: DOMINIK BLUMER
Editing: KAYA INAN
Sound Design: MAURIZIUS STAERKLE DRUX
Re-recording Mix: MANU GERBER
VFX: GIORDANO CASANOVA ADRIAN SUTER
Producer: STEFAN EICHENBERGER
Executive Producers: IVAN MADEO JULIA TAL
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Genre Fiction
Duration 99 min
Shooting Format Arri Amira HD 1:1,85
Screening format DCP
Sound Dolby Digital
Year 2015
Full credits on IMDB
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Saarbrücken, Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Preis für den gesellschaftlich relevanten Film 2016 (Winner)
Locarno, Locarno Festival, Premio Giuria dei Giovani Third Prize 2015 (Winner)
Berner Filmförderung, Bester Spielfilm 2015 (Winner)
Zürich, Bundesamt für Kultur, Swiss Film Award, Best Fiction Film 2016 (Nomination)
Zürich, Bundesamt für Kultur, Swiss Film Award, Best Film Editing 2016 (Nomination)
Kaya Inan
Winterthur, Filmpreis Stadt Zürich, Succès Zürich Spielfilm 1. Platz 2016 (Winner)
Zürich, Filmpreis Stadt Zürich, Zürcher Filmpreis 2015 (Winner)
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What others say:
"In a stunning manner, the team has succeeded in utilizing the stylistic elements of (climate) disaster films for a parabolic societal analysis, in which questions of guilt from Switzerland's past are intertwined with present-day failures, particularly regarding the current refugee crisis."
– NZZ, Susanne Ostwald –
"A captivating, engrossing, magnificent, sarcastic, and, at the same time, affectionate, yes, very Swiss film."
– Der Landbote, Irene Genhart –
"The idea of the filmmakers is brilliant: they stand together as a collective to unabashedly demonstrate how our lack of cooperation drives us towards destruction. Heimatland plays out this scenario repeatedly with fitting points. ***** (5/5 stars)"
– Aargauer Zeitung, Lory Roebuck –
"Heimatland is a film that tackles the challenges currently faced by every European country: migration, right-wing resurgence, and the search for identity. Here, the film transcends Swiss borders and becomes a fabulous parable about the ambivalent and highly universal relationship that each person presumably feels towards their 'homeland'."
–DEUTSCHLANDRADIO KULTUR, Noemi Schneider –
"This visually brilliant film is at times immensely witty, touching, and always subtly political. It not only serves as a pointed, polished Swiss social satire warning of an impending climate catastrophe but is also worth seeing. 4 out of 5 stars."
–FILMDIENST.DE –
"The baptism of a new generation - Swiss cinema has always been defined, in part, through Locarno. Now the baton has been passed at Locarno. Heimatland was the only Swiss entry in competition and appeared original and fresh."
– NZZ am Sonntag, Christian Jungen –
“The drama is particularly noteworthy due to its formal quality and is one of the favorites for the Golden Leopard."
– Focus.de –
"It was a heroic editing work, intricately woven and fluctuating in terms of intensity and quality of the episodes."
–Tagesanzeiger, Pascal Blum –
"Surprisingly, the artistic coherence of the film, created by ten authors, is striking, as Heimatland never devolves into a mere compilation of ten different short films. It impresses as a sharp, politically satirical work with a timely relevance, exploring the idea that an entire country's population seeks refuge abroad in one fell swoop."
–BERLINER-FILMFESTIVALS.DE, Teresa Vena –
"The term 'heimatfilm' is no longer synonymous with crass sentimentality. A Swiss collective of directors turns it into a disturbing dystopia that, despite its episodic structure, remains cohesive. 4 out of 5 stars."
–FILMZEITSCHRIFT EPD FILM, Ulrich Sonnenschein –
"The dystopian film depicts the dire consequences of xenophobia and nationalism. While Heimatland can certainly be seen as a parable of the current social and political situation in Switzerland, labelling the film's content and the filmmakers themselves as 'left-wing' and thus, implicitly, unpatriotic speaks volumes about the (even without the storm cloud) heated atmosphere in the otherwise subtly functioning neighboring country, fueled by war refugees and the franc crisis."
– FILMECHO/FILMWOCHE –
