Like an Island
L’îlot

A feature docufiction by Tizian Büchi

For mysterious reasons, two watchmen are made to guard access to the river in an area of Lausanne where retirees and immigrant families live. Through the different people they encounter, a territory takes shape and a friendship is born. Tizian Büchi creates a fable—part documentary, part fiction and tinged with magical realism—to subtly question our surveillance society.

  • World premiere:

    • 2022, Visions du Réel – Nyon International Film Festival

    International premiere:

    • 2022, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

    Awards:

    • 2022 Visions du Réel: Best Film (Grand prix La Mobilière)

    • Coproducers:
      Tizian Büchi, Michael Scheuplein and Clotilde Wüthrich (Territoires sensibles) (CH)

    • Cast:
      Ammar Abdul Kareem Khalaf and Daniel Daniel Nkubu

    • Writer and Director:
      Tizian Büchi

    • Producers:
      Thomas Reichlin and Britta Rindelaub

    • Cinematographers:
      Diana Vidrascu, Camille Sultan

    • Editor:
      Thomas Marchand

    • Sound Department:
      Bruno Schweissgut, Adrien Kessler, Yatoni Roy Cantu

    • Specs:
      106 min, CH, 2022

    • Language:
      French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic

    • Subtitles: FR,EN

 

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Tizian Büchi

Graduated from the University of Lausanne in History and Aesthetics of Cinema and from the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD – Belgium) in directing. He works as a distributor for the Zurich-based company Look Now!, as a teaching assistant at the film department of the HEAD in Geneva, and as a programmer for various festivals, including Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF), Locarno Film Festival, and currently Solothurn Film Festival and Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. After “On avait dit qu’on irait jusqu’en haut” and “La saison du silence”, “L’îlot” is his first feature film.

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