ZUM BEISPIEL SUBERG
The documentary project ZUM BEISPIEL SUBERG by Simon Baumann won the Migros Kulturprozent's first CH-Dokfilm competition. The award ceremony was held at the 46th Solothurn Film Festival. With the prize money and the participation of the SRG SSR idée suisse, the production of the film is assured.
Directed by: Simon Baumman / Production company: Balzli&Fahrer GmbH / Producer: Dieter Fahrer
Cinema distributor: Look Now! / Scheduled release: 2012
Migros Kulturprozent / Laudation by Peter Liechti
Synopsis
Suberg. 436 meters above sea level, 606 inhabitants, a train station, a school building, a restaurant and a fertilizer factory. An average village in the Swiss Mittelland. Situated half-way between Bern and Biel in the foggy valley of the Lyssbach, Suberg evolved from a sleepy farming village into a sleep-village.
I've lived in Suberg since I was born. For 31 years I successfully ignored the village and it's inhabitants. I fled from it. My way to school I never walked but ran, later I hastened to the train station without looking left or right. I told myself, if I have to live on the countryside, then I'd rather have no contact to the boring country folk. When I went to primary school, my friends lived in Suberg. Today they live in Zurich or Berlin and my evenings in the province become more and more lonely.
That's why I now want to become part of the village community. I want to get to know the village and its inhabitants. I want to understand them. I need friends to chat and drink beer with, friends who are there when you need them. I need friends in Suberg.
But how to find friends in a village that barely has any village sturctures left? And what is the reason for that? I go on a quest for remains of the village community, I meet people who influenced the village and its development and I find in the male choir a last club, whose downfall it might be solely up to me to prevail.
The documentary project ZUM BEISPIEL SUBERG by Simon Baumann won the Migros Kulturprozent's first CH-Dokfilm competition. The award ceremony was held at the 46th Solothurn Film Festival. With the prize money and the participation of the SRG SSR idée suisse, the production of the film is assured.
Directed by: Simon Baumman / Production company: Balzli&Fahrer GmbH / Producer: Dieter Fahrer
Cinema distributor: Look Now! / Scheduled release: 2012
Migros Kulturprozent / Laudation by Peter Liechti
Synopsis
Suberg. 436 meters above sea level, 606 inhabitants, a train station, a school building, a restaurant and a fertilizer factory. An average village in the Swiss Mittelland. Situated half-way between Bern and Biel in the foggy valley of the Lyssbach, Suberg evolved from a sleepy farming village into a sleep-village.
I've lived in Suberg since I was born. For 31 years I successfully ignored the village and it's inhabitants. I fled from it. My way to school I never walked but ran, later I hastened to the train station without looking left or right. I told myself, if I have to live on the countryside, then I'd rather have no contact to the boring country folk. When I went to primary school, my friends lived in Suberg. Today they live in Zurich or Berlin and my evenings in the province become more and more lonely.
That's why I now want to become part of the village community. I want to get to know the village and its inhabitants. I want to understand them. I need friends to chat and drink beer with, friends who are there when you need them. I need friends in Suberg.
But how to find friends in a village that barely has any village sturctures left? And what is the reason for that? I go on a quest for remains of the village community, I meet people who influenced the village and its development and I find in the male choir a last club, whose downfall it might be solely up to me to prevail.