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WATCHING THE PAIN OF OTHERS
Chloé Galibert-Lainé - 31 mins | France , 2019
In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A deep dive into the discomforting world of YouTube and online conspiracies, that challenges traditional notions of what documentary cinema is, or should be.
"One of the best films ever made about watching a documentary" (David Schwartz, Chief Curator at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York)
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BACK TO WONDERLAND
Alice Fargier - 28 mins | France, 2019
Alice and Rossella leave Paris for Geneva. One is on the trail of her past, the other flees the fragility of her present. The two friends travel the roads with a camera, a unique witness of their adventures.
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Competition Unconventional Storytelling
ALICE FARGIER

Alice Fargier is French-Swiss. She shows very young an interest in staging theater and edits short pieces by Jean Tardieu: « Oswald and Zénaïde » (National Conservatory of Dramatic Art), « Finissez vos phrases ! » (Château de Chamarande), « Nocturnes » (Théâtre du Chaudron). She then collaborates with director Srinath Samarasinghe in the writing of his feature film « Un nuage dans un verre d’eau ». Alice Fargier also works as an assistant director for feature films by Asian filmmakers : Hong Sang Soo (Night and Day) and Tsai Ming Liang (Faces). Then she joins La Maison de la Radio and begins a work of sound creations for France Culture: « Alma voit les sons », « Nasim, ou le désir en mouvement », « Esprits libres, portrait d’une génération de cinéastes », « Une certaine nuit d’été ». « Le Mur et l’Eau », her first documentary short film produced in Switzerland, is selected and awarded in many international festivals, as well as nominated in the Best Short Film category at the 2016 Swiss Film Awards. « Kâbus », video shot during an artist residency in Istanbul, is currently circulating in festivals around the world.
Filmography:
2019 - Retour au pays des merveilles, 27'47
2017 - Kâbus, 8'
2014 - Le mur et l'eau, 24'