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Partner: Locarno Film Festival
Directors:
The Newt Congress takes place at a conference building surrounded by nature where participants have come together to optimize the exploitation of giant talking newts. The short film is a free adaptation of Karel Čapek's "War with the Newts".
Duration: 16min.
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Language: German
Year: 2022
Genre: Fiction (Comedy), Fiction (Drama)
Topic: Adaptation, Animals, Black Humor, Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Fantasy, Fear, Globalization, Literature, Nature, Politics, Science, Society, Work
Directors:
Production company: Zurich University of the Arts
Writer: Matthias Sahli, Immanuel Esser
Cinematographer: Miriam Rutherfoord
Editor: Matthias Sahli
Actors: Ursula Bienz , Tobias Bienz , Wiebke Mollenhauer , Linda Gunst
Distributor Company: Ouat Media
Locarno Film Festival
Sitges Film Festival
Winterthur International Short Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis
Seattle International Film Festival
Glasgow Short Film Festival