The Sparrow in the Chimney
Der Spatz im Kamin
TIFF65: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Ramon Zürcher
- Script: Ramon Zürcher
- Cinematography: Alex Hasskerl
- Editing: Ramon Zürcher
- Sound: Balthasar Jucker, Peter Von Siebenthal, Ramon Zürcher
- Music: Balz Bachmann
- Actors: Maren Eggert, Britta Hammelstein, Luise Heyer, Andreas Döhler, Milian Zerzawy, Lea Zoe Voss, Paula Schindler, Ilja Bultmann, Luana Greco
- Production: Zürcher Film
- Producers: Silvan Zürcher
- Co-production: SRF Swiss Radio and Television, SRG SSR
- Costumes: Linda Harper
- Make Up: Nicole Zingg
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Switzerland
- Production Year: 2024
- Duration: 117'
- Contact: Cercamon
Ramon Zürcher
Ramon Zürcher (1982) is a Swiss screenwriter and film director. From 2002 to 2005, he completed a Visual Arts degree at the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB). In 2005, he was awarded the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize for his art videos. Subsequently, from 2006 to 2014, he studies Film Directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). His first feature film The Strange Little Cat premiers at the Berlinale Forum in 2013 and is selected at over 80 festivals (incl. Toronto, Cannes, New Directors/New Films, Mar del Plata), winning numerous awards (incl. CPH:PIX – Main prize, IFF Minsk - Best Debut, IFF Antalya – Film Critics’ Prize, Viennale - Audience Jury Award). His second feature film The Girl and the Spider also premiers at the Berlinale, where it was awarded the prize for Best Director and the FIPRESCI prize of the section Encounters, followed by awards for Best Screenplay and Best Editing at the IFF Mar del Plata and the Preis der Deutschen Filmkritik, the Grand Prix at the New Holland Island IFF and a Bern Film Prize. In the Cahiers du Cinéma the film ranks 8th 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.
Filmography
2013 The Strange Little Cat
2021 The Girl and the Spider
2024 The Sparrow in the Chimney
2021 The Girl and the Spider
2024 The Sparrow in the Chimney