The Right to Forget

TITLE

The Right to Forget

DIRECTOR

Lisa Mazenauer

COUNTRY

Switzerland

YEAR

2025

DURATION

25′

GENRE

Documentary

Overview

The Right to Forget

Through archival fragments and gestures of remembrance, The Right to Forget explores how silence and denial shape both intimate and national memory.

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Lisa Mazenauer

An artist and filmmaker, she works across film, photography, sound and installation. With a background in sociology and art history, she approaches image-making as a way of engaging with stories embedded in places shaped by personal and industrial legacies. Influenced by her family’s mining heritage, her work explores the space between memory, extractivism, and archaeology. Her work has recently been shown at Kunsthaus Baselland, Alt+1000, Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, Espace 3353, Atelier Mondial, Galerie C, Videoex, Photoforum Pasquart, and Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle.

Credits

Lisa Mazenauer

An artist and filmmaker, she works across film, photography, sound and installation. With a background in sociology and art history, she approaches image-making as a way of engaging with stories embedded in places shaped by personal and industrial legacies. Influenced by her family’s mining heritage, her work explores the space between memory, extractivism, and archaeology. Her work has recently been shown at Kunsthaus Baselland, Alt+1000, Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, Espace 3353, Atelier Mondial, Galerie C, Videoex, Photoforum Pasquart, and Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle.

Specifications

SELECTIONS & AWARDS

Visions du Réel 2026
Nyon
April 22, 2026
World Premiere
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Switzerland

Sheffield DocFest 2026
Sheffield
April 13, 2026
International Premiere
Official Selection
United Kingdom

Basler Filmpreis
Basel
Kurzfilmpreis Region Basel

Still Photos