
Isabelle Simmen
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Biography
Isabelle is a Switzerland based Director of Photography and Production Designer. She studied Scenography and Film at the University of the Arts Zurich.
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Returning from a holiday in the early hours of the morning, a young couple walk through the streets of Zürich, dragging suitcases behind them. Bleary-eyed and exhausted from their journey, they bicker. As they wait on a train platform to continue homeward, a misunderstanding occurs. Confusion rises and doubts awaken. Where do they go from here?
To continue knowing (you)

When Lena Corbyn, inherits a third of a British-Swiss mining empire, she aims to revolutionize Corbyn Commodities by closing a harmful coal mine in South Africa and granting employees shares of the family business. But her ambitious plan provokes existential angst in Lena's sister and niece, who will stop at nothing to preserve their privilege and the status quo.
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At his first practice with the new football team, Jonas meets his teammate Niklas. After a party, they end up at Niklas' house. Cuddled up together, the two friends fall asleep. Their closeness does not go unnoticed by their team. The comments from his teammates unsettle Jonas. His relationship with his girlfriend Lara is also in question. He is unable to explain to her what is going on inside him. He encounters Niklas on the football field. An argument erupts. Their team wins the next game, but their distance seems insurmountable.
Winners

A group of high school students must break into their principal's office to destroy evidence before the devastating parent-teacher conference that same evening.
Operation Pythagoras
A young couple‘s love is sabotaged by the arrival of a divine entity.
The Second Coming

After her father's death, Lilo wanders through Zurich's Allmend, a common public space on the edge of the city. It is there that her father spent most of his time during the last years of his life. In her search for his traces, she listens to the landscape, sketches nature and meets the regular walkers.
Common Ground

With a heavy heart a man brings his dead cat to a meat processing plant. Then a taxidermist gives him her business card. Witty film with a strong punch line retains a perfect balance between seriousness and absurdity and plays out its final without moving a muscle. Some animal lovers will undoubtedly be offended.
Dead Animals

During the usual drinking-out evening 2 friends are having a hard time remembering what their chat is about.
Bea & Sam
On their way to a remote vacation spot, a young couple witnesses a fatal hunting accident. Far from civilization and cut off from any help, they start to question the hunters' intentions.