Together, the fourteen graduates created powerful and moving short films. Singular in style, their works reflect the diversity of perspectives that HEAD – Geneva’s Cinema Department actively encourages and nurtures.

Four students received their diploma with honours from the jury. Eleven graduated in directing, one in editing, one in sound, and one in cinematography, the Bachelor’s programme’s new specialisation. Several films will have their premieres at international festivals. We’ll share updates here and on our social media channels.

RÉMINISCENCE by Ira Melnichenko received the Résonnance Prize from Masé Studios for Best Sound. Fondation Leenards awarded two prizes: one to RÉMINISCENCE by Ira Melnichenko, and another to PIES AL REVÉS by Elodie Arpa. Finally, Color Grade awarded the Tremplin Prize for Best Cinematography to NO VEÍA LOS COLORES by Lézio Schiffke-Rodriguez (cinematography: Gaétan Carron, sound: Louis Lamarche).

Congratulations to all our students for their remarkable journey!

DISSOLVED GIRL d’Elsa Cuénez
2025 I CH I19’

CREDITS
Ass. réalisation : Avril Lehmann
Image : Naomi Goldziuk (ENSLL)
Montage : César Collin (INSAS)
Son : Virginie Hosner et Maya Baur Montage son : Mahée Ackermann (INSAS)
Musique : Odilon Bürki Décors : Célestine Fernandes Costumes : Kiana Pellegrini Mixage : Adrien Kessler
Étalonnage : Raphaël Jaafari

CAST
Louise Dewarrat, Solène Kapossy, Noémie Balazs

Synopsis
Éléonore, a young woman hooked on her camcorder, sees her reality dissolve over the course of a week’s holiday with her two best friends.

LA DORMEUSE by Kenza Emery
2025 I CH I 19’

CRÉDITS
Ass. réalisation : Mégane Brügger
Image : Naïla Ebinger
Scripte : Anaïs De Clerck
Montage : Mathilde Douriez (INSAS) Son : Virginie Hosner
Montage son : Alberto Gonzalez Morales
HMC : Sarah Giacomin
Décors : Clarus Guignet
Regie : Morgane Lindanda
Étalonnage : Line De Kaenel
Mixage : François Wolf

CAST
Paola Renout-Lefever, Anaïs Lherieau, Jacques Maitre

Synopsis
Sabrina becomes a regular client at a small neighborhood cinema when she meets someone that changes her view of the place and the art of movies.

NO VEIA LOS COLORES by Lézio Schiffke-Rodriguez
Son : Louis Lamarche Image : Gaétan Carron
2025 I CH I 37’

CREDITS
Montage : Miguel Rodriguez-Viloria (Master ECAL–HEAD)
Montage son : Louis Lamarche
Costumes : Ciel Elsner
Mixage : Philipe Ciompi
Étalonnage : Jean-Baptiste Pérrin

CAST
Bibiana Montoya

Synopsis
In the city of Almería, in southern Andalusia, Bibiana Montoya tenderly shares her story as a pioneer of trans rights in Spain. The film weaves a trans-transgenerational thread of love, memory, and revolt. To forget is to risk reliving what others have already risen up against.

FREEJAZZ by Philip Walker-Arthur
2025 I CH I 19’

CREDITS
Image : Philip Walker-Arthur
Montage : Philip Walker-Arthur
Son : Eliott Schaer & Lyes Saidoun
Musique : OG AIR
Étalonnage : Sylvain Froidevaux
Mixage : Adrien Kessler

CAST
Sebastien Sevino, Angeli De Hucher, Louise Alberton, Felix Qiu, Kwesi Walker-Arthur

Synopsis
A depressed young man, isolated in his apartment, finds himself caught up in an unexpected adventure with criminals. Now facing the thug who has tracked him down to the mountain where he is sheltering, he retraces the events that led him to this moment, speaking in his head to Julie, a woman with whom he imagines an optimistic future in light of all that has happened.

PIES AL REVES by Elodie Arpa
2025 I CH 18’

CREDITS
Ass. réalisation : Mónica Torregrosa Gallo
Image : Elodie Arpa
Montage : Noa Roquet, Elodie Arpa
Son : Roberto Botella Tarazona
Montage son : Loana Amen (INSAS)
Mixage : Adrien Kessler
Étalonnage : Sylvain Froidevaux

CAST
Dolly Almeida Ahué, Pedro Coello, Kylie Isabella Coello Almeida, Milton Jesús Pinto Linares, Edilberto Laureano

Synopsis
Around the village of Puerto Nariño, a gaze wanders between the arms of the Amazon and the abyss of the forest. The film opens in the murky waters of the river’s branches. A party erupts, a boat floats at dawn, a camp is being prepared. Children dive at dusk, thunderstorms streak across the sky. The cyclical rhythm of this world unfolds through sequence shots where human and natural presences unite in a shared vibration.

L’AUTRE COULEUR by Anna Gaberel
Montage : Milàn Cerovaz
2025 I CH I 16’

CREDITS
Ass. réalisation : Lilou Hermann Garcia Image : Lamya Hasbi
Montage : Milàn Cerovaz
Son : Adèle Löffer
Montage son : Christian Salas Scripte : Pénélope Matigot (INSAS)
Musique : Lucia Vité
Décors : Lisa Divorne Costumes : Mai-an Nguyen Mixage : Adrien Kessler Étalonnage : Sylvain Froidevaux Animation : Léo Robyr

CAST
Lola Rodriguez, Jaqueline Ricciardi, Charlyne Genoud, Maïté Humair

Synopsis
Nothing comes out. Everything boils inside. This film gives a voice to Alba, a young girl who grew up alongside a sick mother. It gives space to someone we usually see from afar, without really knowing how she manages. The one who fades away next to her mother and the illness. A sketch of a relationship between a daughter and her mother. This film is an ode to cathartic art, blending photography, painting, and animation. Each medium used serves as a key to better understand this unfinished relationship.

PRIMORDIAL by Tristan Hell
2025 I CH I 21’

CO-PRODUCTION : Futur Proche, Valeria Mazzucchi, Antoine Harari

CREDITS
Image : Hugo Margaron (ENSLL)
Montage : Malena Demierre, Tristan Hell
Son et Montage son : Antonin Ye (ENSLL)

CAST
Christophe Vivanco

Synopsis
Skin glides against sweaty skin, kimono fabric rubs against fabric, a broom sweeps across concrete: the ambivalence of violence and gentleness. Chris (19) trains jiu-jitsu and earns his living as a building cleaner. A meditation on the dreams and everyday life of today’s working class.

REVERIE CITY by Naema Noah Beya
2025 I CH I 25’

CO-PRODUCTION : Akka Films, Annick Bouissou

CREDITS
Ass. réalisation : Arthur Miserez
Image : Laura Morales
Montage : Jacob Detwiler (Master ECAL–HEAD)
Son : Agustín Liberatore, Yves-Christie Kavula
Montage son : Julian Egger, Yves-Christie Kavula
Mixage : François Wolf
Étalonnnage : Laura Morales
Musique : Naema Noah Beya
Effets spéciaux : EXIT VOID

CAST
Martine Munyaneza, Elsa Thebault, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Chris Mukuna, Anaïs Vivarié

Synopsis
Reverie City weaves together three interconnected narratives centered on Imary, a mysterious figure searching for truth. A specter trapped in a place both familiar and threatening, she wanders through a garden and a house marked by family tragedy. Between memories, visions, and doubt, Imary confronts herself—now in her police uniform—and faces her own guilt. Between the real and the unreal, her journey slowly reveals the secrets of the tragedy.

RÉMINISCENCE by Ira Melnichenko
Image : Gaétan Carron Son : Louis Lamarche
2025 I CH I 26’

CREDITS
Image : Gaétan Carron
Montage : Corentin Brunie (INSAS)
Son : Louis Lamarche, Agustin Liberatore Montage son : Eve Abeillon (INSAS)
Musique : Dmytro Kozynets Mixage : Adrien Kessler Étalonnage : Jean-Baptiste Perrin

CAST
Olena Golubieva, Illia Melnichenko, Iryna Holubieva, Sylvia Rosset

Synopsis
Ira, a young Ukrainian refugee in Switzerland, revisits her fragmented memory and her family ties. A doll she has created in her own image becomes the sensitive link between her present and a past marked by a difficult relationship and a silent absence, that of her father.

QUEBRADAS by Felipe Nogueira
2025 I CH I 27’

CREDITS
Ass. réalisation : Ayla Gabriela Torres
Image : Felipe Nogueira
Montage : Maël Mubalegh (Master ECAL–HEAD)
Son : Luisa Lemgruber
Montage son : Rudi Monteiro
Mixage : Philippe Ciompi
Étalonnage : Léon Orlandi

Synopsis
Quebradas (Broken or Edges) is an experimental documentary that follows various women workers around Copacabana beach. Oscillating between concrete fragments and poetic outbursts, the film aims to unearth voices crying out injustice beneath the harshness of contemporary work and the tourist imagery of Rio de Janeiro.

MATI by Aïda Captijn
2025 I CH I 18’

CO-PRODUCTION : Lido Pictures, Rhea Plangg / Guddi Productions, Iman Djionne

CREDITS
Ass. réalisation : Salif Cima Cissé Image : Diara Sow
Montage : Nina Wolf
Son : Ousmane Coly
Musique : Alicia Mendy Mixage : Philippe Ciompi
Étalonnage : Claudia Maharaj
Décors : Mohamed Diouf
Costumes : Mariam Diop
Montage son : Yatoni Roy Cantu, Sebastian Friedmann

CAST
Aminata Mbaye Diop, Ibrahima Mbaye, Emily Adams, Venus Gueye, Awa Sy

Synopsis
Dakar, Senegal. Mati is struggling to grieve her mother’s death. As she drifts through the city, she encounters a mysterious group of women who live by their own rules. What begins as a chance encounter marks the start of a profound transformation.

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