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Riverboom

Riverboom (Directors' Week)

Claude Baechtold

01.07 Galeries 19:00 TICKET
02.07 UGC De BrouckĂšre 16:15 TICKET
Documentary . 95' . Switzerland . 2023 . FR / ST : EN

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.

⭐ The 1st July screening will be followed by a Q&A session with director Claude Baechtold

STARRING

Claude Baechtold

Paolo Woods

Serge Michel

DIRECTOR & WRITER 

Claude Baechtold

SOUND 

Benjamin Benoit

Masé Studios

PHOTOGRAPHY 

Claude Baechtold

EDITOR 

Kevin Schlosser

 

SALES 

Zinc.

DISTRIBUTION 

First Hand Films, Zinc.

PRODUCTION 

Intermezzo Films

Claude Baechtold

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

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