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Original name: Electric Fields
English name: Electric Fields
Year: 2024
Run time: 80 minutes
Language: Swiss German, German, Italian, French
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Black & White
Country: Switzerland
Director: Lisa Gertsch
Producers: Lisa Gertsch
Cast: Julia Jentsch, Michael Neuenschwander, Sophie Hutter, Ole Eisfeld, Nicolas Rosat
Screenplay: Lisa Gertsch
Cinematographer: Simon Bitterli
Editor: Lisa Gertsch
Sound Designer: Daniel Eaton & Martin Scheuter
Music Composer: Gustav Gertsch
Production Company: Sabotage Filmkollektiv, GmbH, Zurich University of the Arts
World Sales: Festival Agency
Lisa Gertsch was born in Bern in 1992. She received her Master of Arts in Feature Film Directing from the Zurich University of the Arts in 2023. Her bachelor’s diploma film ‘Almost Everything’ was awarded a student Oscar in 2018. Lisa Gertsch is a member of Sabotage - a Zurich film collective and works as a director and screenwriter in German-speaking Countries. She lectures in the field of screenwriting and dramaturgy at the Zurich University of the Arts. Since 2018, she has been accompanying refugees in detention pending deportation.
A man disappears into the forest. A sea-son is lost. Lovers transcend time. When people wake up one morning, nothing is as it was. In six episodes, Electric Fields tells the story of lonely characters who have resigned themselves to an everyday life full of unfulfilled dreams. But suddenly inexplicable things happen and people wake up from their slumber. A shift in the rule of the world passes through business premises, pubs, hotel rooms and death rooms like a collective impulse. It pulls the characters into foreign cities, sends them into raging storms, leaves them brooding over a light that shouldn’t shine. And suddenly new paths open up in people’s hands.
