This is what it's all about.
Marmotte Productions was founded 3 years ago, and is giving life to a young and ambitious cinema in French-speaking Switzerland. It has already produced four short films and one feature-length film by directors who bring strong, funny and moving stories to audiences. Several have already been screened and even won awards at festivals in 2024 and will continue to be shown in this way in 2025.
We now want to be able to show these films to audiences in French-speaking Switzerland from spring 2025, in a variety of ways:
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The theatrical release of Juliette Klinke’s feature-length documentary ’Everything is Temporary’ on 5 March, with multiple event screenings already confirmed, in the presence of the director.
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Proposals for accompanied school screenings in French-speaking Switzerland from September 2025.
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Screenings of the short films at international festivals and in Switzerland.
Below, discover the exclusive trailer for the short film «Assigné» (Assigned), shot in 2024, directed by Aude Sublet and which you can discover exclusively by taking part in our crew private screenings.
Your support will help us to ...
Distributing Swiss films locally, as we wish to do, has a cost. We have to make our films visible among the mass of advertising and promotions for big international productions when they are released in cinemas. Enabling young filmmakers to showcase their work via their short film also requires a lot of work and substantial investment.
In total, a budget of CHF 24,000 is needed to cover the costs of these different projects running in parallel. These include material costs (copies and shipping), promotional costs (posters, graphics), communication and promotional costs (press relations, advertising), travel costs for the directors who will accompany the screenings and meet the public, and the costs of entering our latest productions in festivals around the world.
Part of this budget is covered by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, which has already confirmed its support for the distribution of ’Everything is Temporary’ in cinemas in Switzerland. The rest will be covered by your support and the financial income we hope to generate from screenings in the short and medium term.
Below is the trailer for the short film «The Gods», directed by Anas Sareen and shot in 2024 between Zurich and Geneva. You can discover it exclusively by taking part in our private crew screenings.
The films you support and how we distribute them.
EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY
Director Juliette Klinke grew up in the canton of Vaud before studying directing at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (Belgium). She graduated in 2016 and works as a scriptwriter and director between Switzerland and Belgium, where she lives. In August 2020, Juliette travelled to Myanmar to join her partner. There she met Zu Zu, a 17-year-old girl running a roadside food stall. Zu Zu is waiting for the universities closed because of Covid to reopen so that she can fulfil her dream of becoming a policewoman. Gradually, a strong relationship develops between the two young women. On February 1st 2021, the country suffers a military coup, which thwarts Zu Zu’s ambitions and traps Juliette in Myanmar. Their deep attachment to each other becomes their refuge.
- Released in cinemas in French-speaking Switzerland on 5 March. Screenings in the presence of the director.
- School screenings
- Sortie dans les salles romandes dès le 5 mars. Projections en présence de la réalisatrice.
- Projections scolaires
ASSIGNED
Aude Sublet grew up in the Swiss mountains of Pays-d’Enhaut. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in cinema from the ECAL in Lausanne in 2016. Her diploma film ’Comme des Loups’ was selected for Palm Spring, the Short Film Corner in Cannes and TAUF in Tel Aviv. She then obtained a Master’s degree in the Middle East in Geneva in 2018, before working both on film sets and for NGOs in the Middle East. It is from this rich experience that she imagines the story of Yasser, who works as a cleaner in a Swiss ski resort, safe from the persecution of the Syrian regime and far from his family stuck in Lebanon. His meeting with Galyna, a Ukrainian refugee, will make him realise the weight of his years in exile.
- Festival screenings in 2025
- School screenings on the theme of migration.
THE GODS
Born in 1992 in Dubai to an Iraqi-Turkish mother and an Indian father, Anas Sareen grew up on the shores of Lake Geneva and studied literature and film history at the universities of Lausanne and Oxford, before working as a scriptwriter and director. He is a feature film programmer for the Berlinale’s Generation section and a regular contributor to the magazine Talking Shorts. He’ll now begin writing a first feature, titled SWANSONG. ’THE GODS’ is set under a burning sun, Adel and Moïse try to come to terms with the loss of their father. But as their grief turns into an obsession, a rift grows between the two teenage brothers and threatens to separate them.
- Festival screening in 2025
THE MOON RISES
Director Gaspard Vignon studied at the Haute école de musique de Lausanne and film at the University of Lausanne. He devotes as much time to his musical projects - singer, saxophonist and choir director - as to his film career. From 2017 to 2021 he worked at Bande à part Films in Lausanne before co-founding Marmotte Productions. ’The Moon rises’ takes place in August 1944, during a rehearsal of the mixed choir of Vouvry, the young Antoinette arrives, once again, late. Arthur Parchet decides another singer is to replace her for the solo. The rehearsal progresses and the tension rises to a point of no return with the old composer who has made this small choir his last refuge from the miserable fate he has been living for the last twenty years in the Valais. Outside, the war. Based on a true story.
- School screenings on the musical history of the Valais and French-speaking Switzerland.
BLOODHOUND
Pauline Deutsch is a French writer and director born in Lyon in 1994. After studying Performing Arts at the University of Strasbourg, she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in directing from ECAL (Lausanne) in 2018 with her film LA NUIT AU PORT. She then trained in French-speaking Switzerland in film production and distribution, working at Sister Distribution in Geneva and in festival programming at the Geneva FIFDH. Since 2017 she has been writing and directing short documentaries and fiction films, and has just finished writing her first feature-length fiction film ’The Peaks’. Her short documentary follows Aurore, a hunter in her thirties, in the Payerne region, who trains her dog Pushkin to be a ’Bloodhound’ and track blood when hunting. But Pushkin gets overexcited as soon as he is let loose in the wild. It can be hard for Aurore to keep him under control. Will they manage to catch any prey?
- School screenings on the theme of man’s relationship with nature.
