Unrest
by Cyril Schäublin
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Logline
As new technologies are transforming a Swiss 19th-century watchmaking town, a Russian traveller and a watch factory worker meet in the local anarchist movement.
Synopsis
New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labour, she gets involved with the local movement of the anarchist watchmakers, where she meets Russian traveller Pyotr Kropotkin.
Specifications
Switzerland 2022 93 mn 16:9 5.1 Swiss-German, French, Russian
Original title
Unrueh
written, directed & edited by
Cyril Schäublin
Produced by
Seeland Filmproduktion
Coproduced by
Cinédokké and Swiss Radio and Television /SRG SSR
Cast
CLARA GOSTYNSKI
ALEXEI EVSTRATOV
CREW
Screenwriter, Director, Editor CYRIL SCHÄUBLIN
Cinematography SILVAN HILLMANN
Sound MIGUEL CABRAL MORAES
Costumes LINDA HARPER
Production Design SARA B. WEINGART
With the support of
Swiss Federal Office of Culture (OFC)
Zürich Film Foundation
Pro Cinéma Berne
Media Desk Suisse
Developed with the support of
TorinoFilmLab Production Award
FIDLab Marseille
ArteKino International Prize
Festivals
Berlinale 2022 – Encounters- Best director Award
JEONJU Intl. Film Festival- Best film Award
IndieLisboa- International Competition
Sydney International Film Festival- Features
FID International Film Festival Marseille- GNCR Competition
FEMA La Rochelle- Ici et ailleurs
Festival Ciné-Rencontres de Prades- Competition
Golden Apricot Yerevan IFF- International Competition
Douarnenez Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival- Europe
Beijing International Film Festival – Best Artistic Contribution & Best Cinematography
Hong Kong International Film Festival- World Cinema
Espoo Ciné Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival – Wavelenghts
New York Film Festival – Main Slate
Festival de San Sebastian- Zabaltegi- Tabakalera
Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia – Film Central
BFI London – Dare
Black Canvas FCC – New Horizons Competition
FilmFest Sundsvall- Next Europe Competition
Bucharest International Film Festival- Official Competition
International Film Fest Gent- Official Selection
Mostra International Sao Paulo- New Filmmaker’s Competition
Mar del Plata Film Festival- Nuevos Autores
Viennale – Fipresci Award
Belfast Film Festival- International Competition
Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón- Crossroads
Entrevues Belfort- Distribution Support Award Cine +
Thessaloniki International Film Festival- Film Forward
GOA International Film Festival of India – Cinema of the World
Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote- Best Film
REC Tarragona – Main Competition
Laceno d’Oro Film Festival – Competition
World Film Festival of Bangkok- Kaleidoscope
Human Rights Film Festival of Zagreb
2023
Premiers Plans d’Angers- Grand Prix du Jury
Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay- Special Jury Award
Queensland Film Festival
Guanajuato International Film Festival
Golden Panda Awards Gala
Filmography
Filmography (Screenwriter, Director, Editor)
2022 Unrueh / Unrest
2021 Il faut fabriquer ses cadeaux / Gotta fabricate your own gifts (Short)
2017 Dene wos guet geit / Those who are fine
2013 Modern Times (Short)
2011 Portrait (Short)
2009 Lenny (Short)
Press Reviews
“Cyril Schäublin’s intellectually ticklish, formally daring delight marks him out as a singular new filmmaking talent… Unrest exits as it entered: expertly balanced, as though by precision pincers under a magnifier, between the heavy ideas on its mind and the mischievous lightness in its heart”
“Unrueh (English title Unrest) is authentic in every way. The costumes, sets and especially the shots of watchmaking are handled with as much care and precision as the film’s famous chronometers… It slowly, methodically takes the audience on a journey that is, at its heart, about human beings, meanwhile contrasting the joy, laughter and camaraderie of the workers with the cold machinations of industrial minds without glorifying or vilifying. The audience is allowed to watch, think and enjoy”
NEW YORK TIMES BERLINALE ROUND UP REVIEW (Jessica Kiang)
“Best of all — in this section, this festival and, for me, this year so far — there’s Cyril Schäublin’s utterly singular “Unrest,” a movie that is defiantly uncategorizable, unless you have a category earmarked “playful, otherworldly tales of watchmaking and anarchism in 1870s Switzerland.””
Screen International (Wendy Ide)
“Schäublin’s approach is one of stripped-back precision. There’s no extraneous score, just one instance of diegetic music. When the camera isn’t scrutinising the inner workings of the watch mechanism, Schäublin favours long takes and mid and wide shots which position the characters and the action at the very periphery of the frame. The abstract shapes of factory buildings dominate, the workers are tiny in comparison”
