Frida

Switzerland
2019
Fiction
13 min.

 

Director | Brigitte Grüter
Script | Brigitte Grüter
Director of photography | Evgeny Revvo
Editing 
| Katharina Bhend
Sound | Thomas Gassmann
Composer | Janos Mijnssen
Producer | Pablo Callisaya
Production company | Tapir Filmatelier

 

Frida is a German girl lost in Switzerland. One morning, she’s already too late for an appointment, a bird crushes into her rear window and dies. With this dead animal Frida stumbles through her every day life showing her alienness until she encounters a big ear that opens her eyes.

 

About the director:

Born in 1986 on a little farm in the Swiss mountains. Studied Philosophy and Film Studies in Lucerne and Zurich. 2013-2016 studied Film at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art (HSLU). 2017-2018 Screenplay Workshop Munich/Zurich suported by Swiss Foundation for professional training in cinema and audiovisual media (FOCAL) and Swiss Television (SRF). Since 2019 doing her masters in directing at Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam.