World Cinema
Der Spatz im Kamin
Switzerland
German
2024
117 mins
South Asia Premiere
Festival History
Locarno Film Festival | Vancouver Int'l Film Festival
World Cinema
Der Spatz im Kamin
Switzerland
German
2024
117 mins
South Asia Premiere
Festival History
Locarno Film Festival | Vancouver Int'l Film Festival
On the surface, Ramon Zürcher's third instalment in his animal trilogy is a Chekhovian drama of a family reunion in a country house, where archetypal characters collide and descend into surreal territory.
Zürcher returns to their uniquely dreamy, disarming, and disquieting choreography of looks and gestures enacted mostly inside a house or apartment to process something of the state of the world.
The violence and the sense of everything on a boil here are relentless, and hope is a dream that shares its Schrodingerian fate with the cat shut in the washing machine
- Nithin Manayath
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Maren Eggert
Britta Hammelstein
Luise Heyer
Andreas Döhler
Milian Zerzawy
Lea Zoe Voss
Paula Schindler
Ilja Bultmann
Luana Greco
Ramon Zürcher
Alex Hasskerl BVK
Ramon Zürcher
Peter von Siebenthal
Ramon Zürcher
Balz Bachmann
Peter Scherz
Linda Harper
Silvan Zürcher
Zürcher Film
SRF Swiss Radio and Television / SRG SSR
Dorian Magagnin
dorian@cercamon.biz
Dorian Magagnin
dorian@cercamon.biz
Ramon Zürcher (born 1982), a Swiss screenwriter and film director, studied visual arts at the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB) and film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. His first feature, The Strange Little Cat, premiered at the Berlinale in 2013, was selected for over 80 festivals, and won many awards. His second feature, The Girl And The Spider (2021), also premiered at Berlinale and won several awards. In the Cahiers du Cinéma, the film ranks eighth on the 2021 Best of the Year list. The Sparrow in the Chimney is his third feature film. He is currently writing the youth drama The Young Woman With The Crowbar.
