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HEAD at Visions du Réel 2024

The Bachelor diploma film Mawtini by Tabarak Abbas will celebrate its world premiere at Visions du Réel, in the Opening Scenes section. A retrospective and Masterclass with Alice Diop is scheduled for Saturday April 13. The world premiere of the … → Read more

Swiss Film Prize 2024

On March 22, Elene Naveriani , a graduate of HEAD’s Bachelor Cinéma program, won Best Swiss Film, Best Screenplay and Best Editing for her film Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry . Genevan Nicolas Rabaeus was awarded Best Music for his work on the … → Read more

Dylan Taher’s Jusqu’à la fin wins Pathé Prize

The Bachelor diploma film Jusqu’à la fin by Dylan Taher was awarded the Prix Pathé of CHF 5,000 at the Rencontres du 7e Art in Lausanne. → Read more

This month

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Curator

Faye Corthésy

Faye Corthésy is a doctoral student and lecturer in film history at the University of Lausanne. She is completing a thesis on the transnational circulation of New American Cinema films in the 1960s. Her future research focuses on the links between prison and cinema, and the abolitionist imaginary. She co-founded the ciné-club contre-feux in Lausanne, and works occasionally as a cultural mediator and programmer. She currently works as an editor at the HEAD Publications Office and is … → See profil
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Director

Fulvio Balmer Rebullida

Né 1988 à Genève. Il fait ses études entre 2013 et 2016 au Département Cinéma de la HEAD-Genève (Haute école d’art et de design - Genève). Depuis 2016, Fulvio travaille comme réalisateur, assistant réalisation et ingénieur du son. → See profil
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Director

Alice Diop

Born in 1979 in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France, Alice Diop fell into documentaries through no fault of her own. It was a happy encounter with a documentary by Eliane de Latour that made her realize the power of the messages that can be conveyed in documentaries, and the possibility of combining a sociological perspective with cinematic treatment. Alice is interested in those we don’t see, she tells the story of cultural diversity. For Alice Diop, making a good documentary means telling … → See profil
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Sound engineer

Philippe Ciompi

Philippe Ciompi is a film mixer and sound designer based in London. Trained notably at NFTS in London, he collaborates and radiates in Europe and beyond. He works with many directors whose artistic research and aesthetics fascinate him, such as Ben Rivers & Ben Russell or Andrew Kötting in Great Britain, Sarah Vanagt in Belgium, Xiaolu Guo in China, Basil da Cunha in Switzerland, and many others, creating new sound worlds that resonate with each project. → See profil
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Editor

Marine Chiu

After studying philosophy and performing arts at Nanterre University, Marine Chiu joined the editing department of the Fémis film school, where she edited and directed short films. She left for Taiwan to intern with editor Mathieu Laclau, where she stayed to shoot her graduation film. On her return to France, she won the best editing prize at several festivals for the film Martien (Maxime Pillonel) and worked as an editor with Barbara Balestas Kazazian, Negin Khazaee, Frédéric Bayer-Azem and … → See profil
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Kenza Barrah

Kenza Barrah began casting in 2015, specializing in wild casting. She has worked with Jan Kounen, Maïté Sonnet, Maïmouna Doucouré, Onur Tukel, William Laboury, Atsushi Wada, Félix de Givry and Valentin Noujaïm, among others. In 2021, Kenza Barrah met Nawell Madani and was cast in the Netflix series, Jusqu’ici tout va bien , produced by Elephant Story and Black Barbie, broadcast in 2023. She has taken part as a speaker in several Masterclasses Cinéma, notably alongside Frédéric Farrucci … → See profil
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Curator

Faye Corthésy

Director

Fulvio Balmer Rebullida

Director

Alice Diop

Sound engineer

Philippe Ciompi

Editor

Marine Chiu

Kenza Barrah

Spotlight

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  • Bachelor 2023

    Tabarak Allah Abbas

    Tabarak Allah Abbas was born in 1998 in Switzerland of Iraqi origin, and graduated from HEAD - Geneva in cinema in 2023. She is passionate about art in all its forms, from fiction to animation. She likes to develop projects as part of a team, as she …→ See profil
  • Bachelor 2023

    Alicia Mendy

    Alicia Mendy is a Swiss director of Senegalese and Italian origin. After completing a Bachelor’s degree in sociology, she reoriented her studies towards cinema. Graduating in 2023 with a Bachelor’s degree in Cinema from HEAD-Geneva, she is …→ See profil
  • Bachelor 2014

    Elene Naveriani

    Born in 1985 in Tbilisi (Georgia). Elene Naveriani studied painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. In 2011, she received a Master’s degree in Cybermedia Curatorial Criticism, and in 2014 a Bachelor’s degree in Cinema from HEAD - Geneva …→ See profil