EMOZIONIERE
Tears sell

2009, 12.55 minutes
awards: Nachwuchsförderpreis Kanton Bern 2009 (a Young Talents Prize) / short film award Brecht Festivals 2010, Augsburg (D) / Special Prize of the jury at 20 MIN/MAX Shortfilmfestival, 2010 Ingolstadt (D), Lago Film Fest, Lago (Italien) INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL MENTION 2010
official selections: 13th Brussels Short Film Festival 2010 in Brüssel (B) / OFF International Film Festival 2010 in Odense (DK) / Festival du Cinéma Européen 2010 in Lille (F) / 34. Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2010 in Weiterstadt (Germany) / Bolzano Short Film Festival 2010 in Bolzano (Italy) / Lago Film Fest 2010 in Lago (Italien) / 7tes Filmfest Eberswalde (Germany) / 8th Tabor Film Festival 2010 in Tabor (Croatia) / 36th Badalona Film Festival 2010 in Barcelona (Spain) / Solothurner Filmtage (CH) 2010 / Curtocircuito Shortfilm Festival, Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 2009 / Shnit Kurzfilmfestival, Bern (CH) 2009 / Tour de Berne (CH) 2010
Premiere: 15. Mai 2009 an der Kurzfilmnacht Bern

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Another film about dying?
A short satire about emotions in documentaries
by Simon Baumann and Andreas Pfiffner

"We are sensitive filmmakers.
This film we made anyway."

Cast: Elisabeth Rothenbühler, Andreas Pfiffner, David Von Felten, Elisabeth Werder, Simon Baumann, Marjanne Krebs, Eduard Gerteis, Anna Werder, Rosetta Di Matteo

Another film about dying?
A number of documentaries on the subject of death and dying are produced in Switzerland every year. The usually highly emotional films appeal to the audience and are often showered with awards at film festivals. „Sensitive“, „subtle“ and „never voyeuristic“ are the catchwords of the film award laudations.

Therefore, the young filmmakers Simon Baumann and Adreas Pfiffner see the opportunity to achieve success with a subtle short documentary about death. They hurl themselves into the project with great enthusiasm and put themselves under substantial pressure to succeed. Will their film be as emotional and moving as its precursors? In order to get highly emotional statements from the persons interviewed in the film, the two young filmmakers are willing to do nearly everything.

Thus, the overly motivated alter egos of the filmmakers unwillingly hinder a deeper examination of the subject of dying. They constantly interrupt their camera-inexperienced interviewees and push them into making more emotional statements. Comic and nearly grotesque does it get, once the filmmakers direct the interviewees to cry.

Do you like to watch?
There’s hardly a documentary nowadays that goes without crying protagonists. It is generally assumed that these emotional films are made by sensitive filmmakers. The short film Emozioniere shows that the making of an empathetic film can be quite cynical and that not only in Hollywood great emotions are often the result of cool calculation.

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