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in collaboration with La Dérivée, Makhuwas, Bella Comida
The event
What if the absurd were sometimes the best way to talk about reality? Competition, lack of money, the pursuit of glory or larger-than-life stories: four Swiss and Brazilian films play with our ambitions and contradictions. Through satire, offbeat perspectives and imagination, a session for seeing the world differently — and above all, laughing at it.
The films
Zoel Aeschbacher
A teenager seeking recognition, a worker willing to do anything to hit the jackpot, and a senior executive nearing the end of his career who wants to prove — to himself and others — that he still has what it takes. Three characters losing speed on the highway of competition.
Paulo Leierer
Blending institutional film, documentary and making-of, the film follows scientists from the “Brazilian Institute for Alternative and Second-Importance Research” as they struggle with a lack of funding and try to keep their dreams alive.
Anaëlle Morf, Alexandre Rufin
On 27 February 2016, in La Baie, Quebec, celebrated fisherman Marc Gagnon discovered a new species of halibut said to reach several dozen metres in length. He joins the ranks of great men who endlessly push back the boundaries of the unknown. How far will this fame take him — and at what cost?
Tarcísio Lara Puiati
“Cowboy” explores the imagination of a character wandering through his city and telling stories that go beyond reality.
Durée : 56’
The Le Renversé team facilitates a conversation with the audience around the questions raised by the programme.
Free entry · pay what you wish on the way out · 17h · 21h
