Julietta Korbel
Directing
Biography
Of Swiss and Slovakian origin, Julietta Korbel was born in Germany in 1996. She graduated from ECAL in 2019 with her film Still Working. Selected for numerous festivals including Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand and Palm Springs, Still Working won the Quartz for best school film at the Swiss Film Award 2020.
Known For
The power plant has been closed down for a while, but one of the turbines is still running. A solitary worker, who’s most likely dedicated all of his life to this big dying monster, is finally forced to face reality. He’s got only one friend − his big black and white canine companion. Almost with no words and with a great irruption of archive material, Julietta Korbel portrays this man and the Chavalon power plant with the gentleness of who’s shooting a real-life documentary subject.
Still Working
A man must deliver a package the contents of he knows nothing about. Once at the station, he is not met as planned. He must then remain in that city, which he had fled, and which he fears.
Another Hurried Man
Morvan, 1842: forced to pass themselves off as men in order to reach Paris, two sisters embark on an eventful raft journey among the log drivers.
Yonne
Hanna is searching for a painting dedicated to her by her late grandfather, Pavel, who was a painter. But an 11-year-old boy appears unexpectedly at her grandfather’s studio and claims to know where the painting is.