Valentin Merz
Biography: Born in 1985 in Zurich, Switzerland, Valentin Merz moved to Mexico City in 2007 where he worked as a typographer and studied at Haute école d’art et de design in Geneva. DE NOCHE LOS GATOS SON PARDOS (2021) won the Cinegrell First Look Award at this year’s Locarno Festival for its complexity, playfulness and its innovative and challenging storytelling. A VULGAR ADVENTURE is his feature debut.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1985
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
At Night All the Cats Are Black
2023-08-03
At Night All the Cats Are Black
Overview: A crew is shooting a libertine costume film in the countryside when Valentin, the director, suddenly disappears. While the local police investigates, the film shoot continues but takes an odd turn. Robin, the cameraman and director’s lover, follows a promise and reaches the Mexican Pacific.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-08-03
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A Vulgar Adventure
A Vulgar Adventure
Overview: An angry punk in Berlin or a pilgrim in Lourdes, a woman with a disability in the 19th century or a film director wallowing in his self-pity, the film embraces different identities, jumping through centuries and landscapes. Until the adventure takes a new turn and unfolds as a mysterious crime thriller with YouTubers, confined to a castle in France.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: de
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Gotta Fabricate Your Own Gifts
2021-08-07
Gotta Fabricate Your Own Gifts
Overview: As snow falls over a city, people share secret tricks with each other. Like how to kiss somebody and make them disappear, or having thoughts which are unrecognizable to machines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-08-07
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Unrest
2022-11-04
Unrest
Overview: In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement ("unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography and the telegraph are transforming the social order and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money and the government are not all but fictions.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Mouths
2024-08-09
Mouths
Overview: Two barrel organ players roam the streets of Juárez, a district of Mexico City. They play their music and ask passers-by for money, while a couple of tourists from Paris set up an insurance fraud...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-08-09
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Brothers: A Family Film
2020-04-17
Brothers: A Family Film
Overview: After 20 years of separation, brothers Adrian and Valentin spend a week together. 32-year old Adrian lives with their parents and benefits from a disability pension. Valentin, barely older, seems to have found his autonomy. Brothers - A Family Film is a dizzying dive into a relationship as impossible as it is established, where violence and tenderness are one and the same.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-04-17
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