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Archive | 3. SFFF | 2016

Feature Film Competition

It’s the languages of Switzerland which determine the filmic radius of the Saas-Fee Filmfest. At the core of the festival is the feature film competition FILMS FROM FIVE COUNTRIES with free, personal, innovative cinema from Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany and Austria.

We are interested in authentic stories, in films with an awake gaze at the world which challenge viewing and thought habits.​​

Aloys

Aloys Adorn is a middle aged private detective who lives and works with his father. He experiences life from a safe distance, through a video camera he keeps recording 24 hours a day...

The Son

Palermo, today. Vincenzo Vetro, a 40-year-old husband and loving father, works at the municipal fish market every night. Outside his job Vincenzo does door-to-door fish delivery rounds with his ten-year-old son Giovanni.

Napoli Jungle

Three chapters. Three generations. Giggino, a 50-year-old jack of all trades, restaurant poet and small street thief. His father Antonio, a pensioner from Italsider and nostalgic of the old factory days and what they represented. Finally, Marco, an 18-year-old deli shop boy...

Two Rémis, Two

At 30, with not much of a job, and too timid in love, Rémi is a little lost in life until the day from which he has to share it with his doppelgänger, another him.

I Am a Soldier

Sandrine (Louise Bourgoin), 30 years old, is forced to return home to Roubaix to live with her mother, because she lost her job. She accepts to work with her uncle Henri (Jean- Hugues Anglade) in a kennel, which turns out to be a hub for dog trafficking from Eastern Europe.

The Measure of a Man

Thierry is a 51-year-old father and factory worker who has been laid off and can’t find work as his benefits are running out. After 20 months on unemployment, several useless professional trainings and hopeless job interviews he finally finds a job as a store detective.

Der Nachtmahr

Tina is 17 years old and seemingly has everything a girl her age could wish for. But one night after an intense party, she begins having severe nightmares. From this point forward she is haunted daily by a profoundly hideous creature.

Superwelt

Married supermarket worker Gabi Kovanda’s lower middle class life revolves around her family and her job. Until, after work one day, everything changes. Suddenly, there’s someone new in her life, someone with whom she had already been casually acquainted: God!

Wild

Ania has a strange encounter on her way to work. She finds herself gazing into a wild pair of eyes, and it seems to her that her entire life until now has been futile and pointless.