Riverboom
Riverboom (Directors' Week)
Claude Baechtold
After 9/11, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in the war zone of Afghanistan. Not entirely voluntarily, the self-confessed anti-militarist from French-speaking Switzerland is dragged on a tour of the entire country by two fearless reporters. With impressive archive footage that was until recently thought lost, Baechtold captures in his humorous road movie doc how he inadvertently becomes a war reporter and is able thereby to deal with his own personal strokes of fate.
â The 1st July screening will be followed by a Q&A session with director Claude Baechtold
STARRING
Claude Baechtold
Paolo Woods
Serge Michel
DIRECTOR & WRITERÂ
Claude Baechtold
SOUNDÂ
Benjamin Benoit
Masé Studios
PHOTOGRAPHYÂ
Claude Baechtold
EDITORÂ
Kevin Schlosser
SALESÂ
Zinc.
DISTRIBUTIONÂ
First Hand Films, Zinc.
PRODUCTIONÂ
Intermezzo Films
Claude Baechtold

Claude Baechtold was born on 3 February 1972 in Lausanne. He studied graphic design at the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL). He first devoted himself to photography, and in 2005 won the Vevey International Grand Prix for Photography for his guide about the North Pole. He then turned to film, and RIVERBOOM is his first feature film.
FILMOGRAPHY
First Film