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year: 2026
format: DCP, 4K
duration: 12'39"
production: Asako Film
distribution: Bonobostudio
Country of production: Switzerland
Cléo tries to escape the world in her grandfather Groppo's garden, but it is there that she is forced to find her way back to herself through painfully repressed memories.
Director, scriptwriter: Cécile Brun
Producers: Frances McStea, Anja Kofmel
Layout and backgrounds: Cécile Brun
Animation: Cécile Brun, Charlotte Waltert
Editing: Marina Rosset
Voices: Ernst Brun, Lisa Tschanz, Maya Zurbuchen, Till Schaffnit
Music: Rahel Zimmermann
Sound design and sound mix: Thomas Gassmann
Compositing: Stefan Holaus, Igor Kuzmic
Color grading: David Röthlisberger
Cécile Brun (1986) graduated from HSLU with a Bachelor's degree in Animation in 2011. She completed an exchange semester in comics at ESA (École Supérieure des Arts) Saint-Luc in Brussels in 2010. Cécile works as a director, illustrator and film projectionist in Zurich. Her previous short film Lah gah (2019) screened at numerous international film festivals.
Filmography
Groppo's Garden (2026), Lah gah (2019), Zmitzt drin (2011), Yuri (2009, co-director)