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
- DirectorLisa Mazenauer
- ScreenplayLisa Mazenauer
- CinematographyLisa Mazenauer
- Cast
- Editing Lisa Mazenauer, Orsola Valenti
- Producer/s Chus Martínez, Lisa Mazenauer
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleThe Right to Forget
- Project Type Documentary
- Completion Date22 Apr 2026
- Country of originSwitzerland
- Country of filmingSwitzerland
- LanguageEnglish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectYes

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






