Movies by Melanie Schmidli

The Affront
In anonymous administrative buildings, officials are confronted with dissatisfied, even aggressive citizens. Gradually, the cases start to add up and foreshadow bad things to come.

Emetofobia
Based on Buñuels Exterminating Angel (1962), this experimental feature film tells the story of five actors, stuck between fiction and seeming reality of a studio filmset. After the whole crew disappears and a boozy night in the studio, the left behind find themselves in the archaic equivalent of the scenery: a secluded cottage in the mountains of tuscany. Set back to themseslves, their roles and without catering „being professional“ turns out to be no adequate survival strategy…