Solitaire
Date:
December 15, 2022
Solitaire
Solitaire
by Maja Gehrig
Langfilm | Switzerland
Adriatic Animation | Croatia
Toku | France
Short animation
Logline
Norma and her family live on a construction site, unsecured in mid-air. Their everyday life is determined by the movements of the cranes that carry people and objects. But Norma increasingly loses her rhythm and finally finds her ground by falling.
Synopsis
Norma and her family live on a construction site, unsecured in mid-air. Their everyday life is determined by the movements of the cranes that carry people and objects. But Norma increasingly loses her rhythm and finally finds her ground by falling.
Director’s Profile
Maja Gehrig is an animation filmmaker and teacher based in Zurich. Her short animation films use a wide range of techniques. Her animated films Amourette (2009) and Queen Bum (2015) have been shown at numerous festivals and have won many awards. Average Happiness (2019) has screened at around 100 festivals, including Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand, Leipzig or Krakow, and has won the Swiss Film Award and the prime awards in Athens, Palm Springs, Animateka and Monstra as many more.
From 2020-24 Maja Gehrig was co-president of the Swiss Animation Association GSFA and she is currently teaching at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts on the BA Animation course. Maja Gehrig is a regular jury member at animation film festivals, such as in 2021 in the Contrechamps’ section at the Annecy Animation Film Festival.
Company Profile
Langfilm was founded in 1980. Today, the company is lead by Anne-Catherine Lang Majer and Olivier Zobrist. Julia Schubiger joined our team as junior producer in the last years. With our experience, Langfilm is one of the established production companies in Switzerland. We have produced more than 50 films and series, many of them in coproduction with European partners, including Swiss film classics such as “Höhenfeuer” (1985) by Fredi M. Murer or “Der Berg” (1990) by Markus Imhoof. We love producing a wide range of audiovisual works: fiction and documentaries – features and shorts – live action and animation. Langfilm also works specifically with young Swiss filmmakers.
Most recently, we produced the documentary “The New Gospel” by Milo Rau (Venice Days 2020, Winner Swiss Film Award 2021: Best Documentary), the short “Über Wasser” by Jela Hasler (Semaine de la Critique, Cannes 2021), the feature “L’Amour du Monde” by Jenna Hasse (Berlinale Generation 2023) and the documentary “Brunaupark” by Felix Hergert & Dominik Zietlow (Winner national competition Visions du Réel Nyon 2024).
Langfilm is also one of the founding members of the Swiss distribution company Vinca Film and runs a cinema in Freienstein, Switzerland.