THOSE WHO ARE FINE
2018 Films
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1h 11m
Using her skills of selling internet and insurance deals, young call center employee Alice calls up elderly strangers and pretends to be their granddaughter in urgent need of money. As this trick quickly makes her rich, the film observes people and places in Zurich, all mysteriously connected to Alice’s business.
Direction: Cyril Schäublin
Script: Cyril Schäublin
Production: Silvan Hillmann
Co-Production: Lara Hacisalihzade, Ralph Rutishauser, Cyril Schäublin
Cinematography: Silvan Hillmann
Editing: Cyril Schäublin, Silvan Hillmann
Production Design: Laura Hacisalihzade
Costume Design: Irene Schweizer
Sound: Nicolas Buzzi
Original Score: Linda Vogel
Cast: Sarah Stauffer, Nikolai Bosshardt, Fidel Morf, Margot Gödrös, Ester Flückiger, Bert Siegfried, Toni Majdalani, Mohamed Aghrabi, Chihanez Belguidoum, Daniel Bachmann
Original Title: DENE WOS GUET GEIT
Original Languages: Arabic, Swiss German
Subtitles: English
Film Production Country: Switzerland
Website: http://www.seelandfilm.ch/Films
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/Denewosguetgeit/
Statement of the Director/s
The title of our film refers to a traditional swiss folk song, “Dene wos guet geit” by Mani Matter. It is a song about the organisation of wealth, about the haves and havenots. The crime depicted in the film is based on a trick of confidence which takes advantage of the disconnection between the generations of grand children and their grandparents. Everything about the trick seems to happen in an anonymous space. We considered this ‘crime’ as a chance to portray and explore our hometown.
Biography of the Director/s
Cyril Schäublin (1984 in Zurich), a descendant of a watchmaker family, left Switzerland in 2004 to live in Beijing, China. In 2006 he moved back to Europe to study cinema in Paris and Berlin, where he graduated at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin in 2012. His first feature film, "depicting everyday life in capitalism" with "sly, subtle humor" (The Hollywood Reporter), THOSE WHO ARE FINE (Switzerland, 2017), premiered in Locarno and Rotterdam and won several awards. The film received an invitation to New Directors / New Films at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, got nominated for the Swiss film price 2018 and won the Award for Best International Feature Film at the 72nd Edinburgh International Film Festival. He lives and works in Zurich.
Filmography of the Director/s
2017 Dene wos guet geit (71min)
2013 Modern Times (7min)
2013 Public Library (8min)
2009 Lenny (17min)
2007 Mein Bruder, der Rabe (12 min)
2006 Thanatos (2min)
2005 Zhi Nan Zhen (6min)
2003 Das Licht der Maschine (35min)
Awards Won
Winner Best International Feature Film 72° Edinburgh Film Festival 2018, International Best Feature Competition
Special mention of the Jury, 10° Murcia International Film Festival IBAFF 2018
Special mention of the Jury, 36° Montevideo International Film Festival of Uruguay 2018, New directors competition
Special mention of the Jury (First Feature) 70° Locarno Film Festival 2017, Cineasti del Presente
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