The Landscape and the Fury
TITLE
The Landscape and the Fury
DIRECTOR
Nicole Vögele
COUNTRY
Switzerland
YEAR
2024
DURATION
138′
GENRE
Documentary feature
The Landscape and the Fury
On the Bosnian-Croatian outer EU border the paths of migrants and locals cross. The scars of the 1990s war connect to the fate of today’s refugees. A deeply telluric film, a kaleidoscope of landscape and fury.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Nicole Vögele
NICOLE VÖGELE is an independent filmmaker and journalist, based in Zurich and Berlin. She started her professional life with an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk but soon found her way into journalism. Most of her journalistic career she spent reporting for Swiss Television (SRF). Nicole Vögele studied journalism at MAZ Lucerne and documentary filmmaking at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Germany), where she graduated 2017. Her heart always belonged to the poetic storytelling and the investigative truth seeking. Nicole Vögele was part of various collective investigative projects. For Cryptoleak she was awarded the 2020 Swiss Journalist of the Year Prize also her investigations on the EU’s external border received various awards. Since 2021 Nicole Vögele holds the professorship of Moving Image at the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Her short films FRAU LOOSLI (2013), INTO THE INNARDS (2014) and the middle-length feature NEBEL were premiered at international film festivals (Berlinale, Visions du Réel, Dok Leipzig etc). Her first documentary feature CLOSING TIME was awarded at Locarno Film Festival in 2018 and screened around the globe.
- DirectorNicole Vögele
- ScreenplayNicole Vögele
- CinematographyStefan Sick
- Cast
- Editing Hannes Bruun
- Producer/s Aline Schmid, Adrian Blaser
- Production CompanyBEAUVOIR FILMS
- Distributor/sTaskovski Films, London (United Kingdom)
- Project TitleThe Landscape and the Fury
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date 1 January 2024
- Country of originSwitzerland
- Country of filmingSwitzerland
- LanguageBosnian
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Nicole Vögele
NICOLE VÖGELE is an independent filmmaker and journalist, based in Zurich and Berlin. She started her professional life with an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk but soon found her way into journalism. Most of her journalistic career she spent reporting for Swiss Television (SRF). Nicole Vögele studied journalism at MAZ Lucerne and documentary filmmaking at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Germany), where she graduated 2017. Her heart always belonged to the poetic storytelling and the investigative truth seeking. Nicole Vögele was part of various collective investigative projects. For Cryptoleak she was awarded the 2020 Swiss Journalist of the Year Prize also her investigations on the EU’s external border received various awards. Since 2021 Nicole Vögele holds the professorship of Moving Image at the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Her short films FRAU LOOSLI (2013), INTO THE INNARDS (2014) and the middle-length feature NEBEL were premiered at international film festivals (Berlinale, Visions du Réel, Dok Leipzig etc). Her first documentary feature CLOSING TIME was awarded at Locarno Film Festival in 2018 and screened around the globe.
