Sarah Rothenberger

A woman is locked in her home with an egg, which she is both attracted to and scared of. She eats the egg, she repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. EGG is a poetic short film based on a small yet significant moment of the director’s own life. It portrays a moment of shame, defeat and yet of victory.

At the 1999 International Vegetarian Congress in Widnau, a small village in eastern Switzerland, a mysterious case of food poisoning occurs. When the animators Marion and Noah come across the story, they decide to make a animated documentary about the case. But what can be found out about the truth twenty years later?

The salmon want to reproduce. While the salmon men swim upstream in a testosterone-driven race, the women indulge in a fertility dance at the source of the river. But the roles aren't as clearly defined as the men expect.

Eva is a young woman about to leave her home to start her life as an adult in the city. A new chapter with her name on it. Determined, she is waiting at the bus stop. But torn between her memories, hopes and fears, she starts to doubt herself. What is that pulling at her sleeve? Why is each step so hard to take? Deep breaths.