Films



Breaking Ground offers young filmmakers a stage to present themselves and their work. Below you'll find the films we have programmed at one of our festivals or events sofar. Please note this is not yet again another video channel, this is a showcase of interesting films. Would you like us to take an interest in your film, please submit it.



Director: Carmen Jaquier
ÉCAL
Year of production 2011
Genre fiction
Length 16'30"

Le Tombeau des Filles (The Girls' Grave)

Sissi and Victoria are sisters. Whereas the younger is slowly emerging from the world of childhood, the elder tries in vain to be grown up. In the room that they share, Sissi is preparing for her gymnastic competition and Victoria has boys coming and going...



Director: Anca Miruna Lazarescu
University of Television and Film Munich
Year of production 2011
Genre fiction
Length 30'00"

Apele Tac (Silent River)

Romania, 1986: Gregor and Vali want to escape. They will cross the Danube swimming. On the other bank of the river there is Yugoslavia. They need each other, but they do not trust each other. Each of them has to make his choice. That’s the way everything begins...



Director: Victor Rodenbach and Hugo Benamozig
La Femis
Year of production 2011
Genre fiction
Length 14'10"

Stronger

Maxime is positive: he composed "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" before Daft Punk and the beautiful Inès is definitely the woman of his life. His old best friend David is unlikely to agree. 



Director: Julia Keller
Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Year of production 2011
Genre fiction
Length 26'26

Beredtes Schweigen (Eloquent Silence)

Marie is used to the drab monotony of everyday life on her parent's farm. But it gets unbearable when Marie's older sister Anne surprisingly turns up for the first time after three years. The lost daughter is back for her mother's birthday. Marie again takes off her prettiest dress and begins a wordless battle against
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