Marrakech Worldwide Movie Pageant: screening of the movie “Thunder” by Switzerland’s Carmen Jaquier

by times news cr

2024-06-20 01:55:19

The occasions of this 92-minute movie happen throughout the summer time of 1900, in a valley in southern Switzerland. Elisabeth, a 17-year-old novice, is making ready to make her vows when the sudden loss of life of her older sister forces her to depart the convent and return to the household farm that she had left 5 years beforehand.

Nonetheless, Elisabeth is now not a toddler. The strict and suffocating guidelines of the village suffocate her, the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of her sister obsess her and push her to say her proper to make her personal experiments.

This characteristic movie, marked by the admirable efficiency of Lilith Grasmug, is Carmen Jaquier’s first movie, through which she makes an attempt to make ladies’s voices heard and defend their proper to freely categorical their opinions.

In a speech given on the event of this preview, the director expressed her nice pleasure at presenting her first characteristic movie on the Marrakech Worldwide Movie Pageant, including that she is impatiently awaiting the general public’s impressions concerning the film.

Born in Geneva, Carmen Jaquier discovered graphic design earlier than making her first quick movies, then becoming a member of the Lausanne Cantonal Artwork College (ECAL). His diploma movie The Ladies’ Tomb obtained the Pardino d’Argento on the Locarno Movie Pageant (2011).

She then explored picture and enhancing inside the Aamen collective and produced two quick movies, Les Vagues and Le Bal des Sirènes. His quick movie La Rivière sous la langue and the collective characteristic movie Heimatland have been chosen on the Locarno Movie Pageant in 2015.

Carmen Jaquier additionally created the picture for the documentary A Vibrant Mild – Karen and the Course of by Emmanuelle Antille.

Along with “Thunder”, the movies in competitors are: “LE BLEU DU CAFTAN” by Moroccan director Maryam Touzani, “ALMA VIVA” by Cristèle Alves Meira (Portugal), “ASHKAL” by Youssef Chebbi (Tunisia), “ASTRAKAN” by David Depesseville (France), “AUTOBIOGRAPHY” by Makbul Mubarak (Indonesia) and FARAWAY SONG (Cañçao ao Longe) by Clarissa Campolina (Brazil).

Additionally within the operating are “RED SHOES” (Zapatos rojos) by Carlos Kaiser Eichelmann (Mexico), “PETROL” by Alena Lodkina (Australia), “SAVAGE” (Amina) by Ahmed Abdullahi (Sweden), “SNOW AND THE BEAR” (Kar ve Ayı) by Selcen Ergun (Turkey), “BLACK KNIGHT” (A Story of Shemroon) by Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi (Iran), “THE TASTE OF APPLES IS RED” (Ta’am al-tufah, ahmar ) by Ehab Tarabieh (Syria) and “RICEBOY SLEEPS” by Anthony Shim (Cadana).

2024-06-20 01:55:19

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