Short Film – 22 min – 2024
Director and Screenwriter: Franck Renaud
Co-production: Tropism Studio
Support: Pictanovo (production grant) and Le Fresnoy – National Studio for Contemporary Arts
Upon arriving at the hospital, I discover a patient far sicker than myself: the healthcare system.
Cinémonde Berk sur mer, Festival International du Film Court d’Angoulême, Festival International du Film de l’Espoir (FIFE).
Immersive Experience – 17 min – 2023
Creation: Fabienne Giezendanner
Directors: Fabienne Giezendanner and Franck Van Leuween
Music: Jean-Christophe Cheneval
Co-production: Nadasdy Film (Switzerland) and Art Zoyd Studio
Support: Cinéforom & Loterie Romande, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Pictanovo, SRG SSR, CNC
On a scorching, drought-stricken day, a fire devastates the city. You have no choice but to take refuge in the nearby forest. The trees, like you, suffer from the heat. Suddenly, luminous streams from a great oak swirl around you — it is trying to communicate. Will you be able to answer?
25 festivals, including the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) – 2023 (International Immersive Works Competition), ART*VR Festival (Prague / DOX) – 2024 (International Competition), BIFAN (South Korea) – 2024 (Beyond Reality XR Section), and the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival – 2024.
Immersive and Interactive Virtual Reality (VR) Experience – 18 to 20 min – 2020
Director: Fabienne Giezendanner
Screenplay: Suaëna Airault and Fabienne Giezendanner
Co-production: Ciné Litté (Germany), Fauvea Studio (Switzerland), and Studio Yog (South Korea)
Support: CNC (writing and development grants), Pictanovo (Interactive Experiences Fund), Film und Medien Stiftung NRW
Distribution: Diversion XR
Slip into the shoes of a South Korean woman and immerse yourself in her memories — those of a time, as a child, when she disobeyed her mother and crossed the border of the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas, hoping to find her father held in the North.
A remarkable adventure awaits her in this place, both paradise and nightmare, where she will encounter strange birds, as well as traces of battles just waiting to resurface… Will she manage to find her father?
An initiatory tale that invites us to rediscover a child’s gaze.
Expert Award (INA) at the MIFA Pitch, Annecy Festival, 2019
40 festivals, including official selection in the Venice VR Expanded section at the Venice International Film Festival, 2020; Official Competition at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) in Montreal, 2020; Competition at the Virtual Reality Experience in Rome (VRE 2020), in the “VR Interactive” category; VR Animation section of the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF), out of competition; selection at BIFAN – Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, “Beyond Reality” section, South Korea, 2021 – Lumière Award / Best VR Work at Stereopsia Festival (Belgium), 2020.
Documentary – 52 min – 2023
Director and Screenwriter: Guillaume Grélardon
Support: Pictanovo, WEO, Le Fresnoy – National Studio for Contemporary Arts
Every two weeks, men and women suit up in overalls and helmets to take part in a bangerstock race on the Warneton speedway in Belgium. Risking their lives at every moment, what drives these modern-day knights to challenge death?
Mini-series – 10×3 min – in writing
Director and Screenwriter: Loïc Van Russel
In a trench in Northern France’s Pas-de-Calais region, three soldiers — Marcel, Fernand, and Jules — hold their ground thanks to the most unexpected weapon: laughter. Each episode depicts an absurd yet well-documented situation, where trench humor becomes a true survival strategy. A warm, popular, and universal look at World War I… from a human perspective.
Documentary – 52 min – in development
Director and Screenwriter: Loïc Van Russel
Through a poetic and committed odyssey, the film explores the natural regeneration of sites marked by the industrial and military history of the Hauts-de-France region — bunkers, slag heaps, wastelands — now reclaimed by wildlife and vegetation. Local figures (naturalists, biologists, artists, passionate observers) guide the viewer through a variety of ecosystems: ancient forests, hedgerows, white cliffs, bays, and urban areas. This sensitive journey highlights the connection between memory and biodiversity, while questioning the ecological future of the region.
Immersive experience – 30 min – in pre-production – scheduled for release in autumn 2026
Director and Screenwriter: Fabienne Giezendanner – Graphic Design: Mélanie Coutirnat – Music: Katia Makdissi-Warren
Co-productions: Elefant Films (Switzerland) and Oktoeko (Canada)
Support: With the support of the CNC writing grant, Pictanovo development support, the CNC, the OFC, the City of Geneva, selection at the New Images Digital Market (Paris), selection at the GIFF Digital Market (Geneva), the VR-Arles-Fisheye writing residency supported by the Institut Français and Région Sud, selection by Swiss Films, GIFF and Cinéforom to be presented at the Venice Biennale 2024. The project is accompanied by Inuksuk, the Inuit association of Paris, and Lydia Etok and Nina Segalowitz (Inuit) in Canada.
Distribution: Diversion XR
You embody the soul of a stillborn child who is reborn through different animal forms in order to survive in ecosystems weakened by human activity. The journey begins in the Canadian Far North as a whale, crosses the South China Sea as a heron, continues in Europe as a deer, and finally is reborn as a human. A sensory and contemplative odyssey, without words, dreaming of a nature that, too, can be reborn.
WIP NewImages festival 2022 and GIFF 2024.
