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TITLE
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DIRECTOR
Stefania Burla
COUNTRY
Switzerland
YEAR
2025
DURATION
20′
GENRE
Fiction
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On the night before a religious procession, a fifteen-year-old encounters a group of teenagers hidden in the dark of the local sports hall.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Stefania Burla
Stefania Burla is a Polish-Swiss filmmaker based in Zurich, Switzerland. She first worked in theatre for several years, before finding her way into film. In 2017 she started her Bachelor in Film at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). In 2019 she did an exchange at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She graduated from ZHdK with a BFA in Film in 2022. Her graduation film MACIERZ (engl.: MOTHERLAND, 2023) screened at several international film festivals and won the Grand Prize – Filmmaker of the Future Award at Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival. In 2023 she started her MFA in film directing at Zurich University of the Arts. She co-founded rumor filmkollektiv and is currently developing her first feature film SEZON (AT).
- DirectorStefania Burla
- ScreenplayJohannes Jordan, Fabiana Seitz, Stefania Burla
- Cinematography Balz Auf der Maur
- Cast
- Editing Laura Rodríguez Pérez
- Producer/s Fabiana Seitz
- Production Company
- Distributor/sLIGHTS ON
- Project TitleNest
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date1 January 2025
- Country of originSwitzerland
- Country of filmingSwitzerland
- LanguageSwiss German
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Stefania Burla
Stefania Burla is a Polish-Swiss filmmaker based in Zurich, Switzerland. She first worked in theatre for several years, before finding her way into film. In 2017 she started her Bachelor in Film at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). In 2019 she did an exchange at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She graduated from ZHdK with a BFA in Film in 2022. Her graduation film MACIERZ (engl.: MOTHERLAND, 2023) screened at several international film festivals and won the Grand Prize – Filmmaker of the Future Award at Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival. In 2023 she started her MFA in film directing at Zurich University of the Arts. She co-founded rumor filmkollektiv and is currently developing her first feature film SEZON (AT).
