I’m excited to share the release of my latest (and last) ZHDK project — and my first collaboration with poet and architect Michel Kessler. Our work, UNDER THE ICE, merges arthouse sensibilities with genre cinema and is now making its festival rounds nationally and internationally.
UNDER THE ICE follows Sasha Sirkovsky, a data analyst sent to investigate a team of scientists who have mysteriously stopped reporting results while drilling ice cores on the last remaining glacier.
Our international cast — Lena Tronina, Cosima Shaw, Alireza Bayram, and Michael Neuenschwander — brings this story to life, reflecting our ambition to tell epic, imaginative stories from Switzerland. Produced by Levin Vieth this vision was supported by a remarkable crew, including DOP Natascha Vavrina and production designer Simona Mele, alongside many other talented collaborators you find on the poster and on SWISSFILMS.
Following our national premieres at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival and Winterthurer Kurzfilmtage (5. - 10. November) in Switzerland we are happy to have been invited by Trinationale Shorts, showcasing the best school graduation works of France, Germany and Switzerland as well as Landshuter Kurzfilmtage in Germany.
Now, having been invited to our first Oscar-qualifying festival Hollyshorts Film Festival in Los Angeles. We’re thrilled to celebrate our U.S. premiere at the legendary TLC Chinese Theatres.
We’re grateful for the press (Urner Zeitung, Thuner Tagblatt) we’re receiving for making a Swiss sci-fi movie on a glacier against all odds — and we can’t wait to share the film with you once it completes its festival run next year.
