A film by Basil da Cunha
Serguei is a railway worker, seemingly cheerful and sociable. But within the intimacy of his gloomy apartment, he lives a terrible loneliness. When his television breaks down, he overhears a couple's argument in the apartment next door. Driven by a growing fascination for the woman's voice, he starts to share, by proxy, her everyday life, till the day he'll walk through her door…
Basil Da Cunha was born in Morges in 1985. He directed three short auto-produced films, then joined Thera Production in 2008. In 2012, he finished his cinema studies at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design of Geneva with his first feature film "Até ver a Luz". Since 2013, Basil Da Cunha is a cinema teacher at the Geneva HEAD. In 2017 he shot his second feature film "O fim do mundo".
O Fim Do Mundo · fiction · 107' · 2019
Nuvem Negra · documentary · 19' · 2014
Até ver a luz · fiction · 95' · 2013
Os vivos tambem choram · fiction · 31' · 2012
Sunfish · fiction · 30' · 2011
Next door · fiction · 25' · 2009
Lex Talionis · fiction · 26' · 2008
- Why do you want flowers ?
- To eat them !
With
Dorin DragosCarlos Marques
Antonio Buil
Boubacar Samb
Elphie Pambu
Baptiste Coustenoble
Screenplay and directing
Basil da CunhaPhotography
Patrick Tresch
Sound
Matéo Luthy, Michel Challandes
Makeup
Miriam Varela
Music
David Tabachnik
Editing
Basil Da Cunha, Amina Djahnine, Dominique AuvraySound editing and mixing
Adrien Kessler
Color grading
Laurent Kempf
Production
Thera ProductionCoproduction
HEAD – Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, Genève
With the support of
Fondation Vaudoise pour le Cinéma with the help of the Loterie Romande, Canton de Vaud and Ville de Lausanne
Ville de Renens
Groupe d’Interêt Jeunesse
PRIZES
Best short film, Vila Do Conde 2010Festivals
IFF Locarno 2009, Léopards de demain, Swiss competition
Batumi international art house film festival, Georgia 2009
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, 2009 compétition
Festival européen du film court Brest, Brest off 2009
Festival du film court francophone de Vaulx en Velin 2010
Journées du Cinéma suisse de Soleure 2010
Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris, Focus Suisse, 2010
TAU Film Festival, Tel Aviv 2010
Festival de Court Métrages Atakpamé (Togo) 2010
Curtas Vila Do Conde, Portugal 2010, nationale Competition
Festival du Court-Métrage Méditerranéen, Tangers 2010
International Short Film Festival, Drama 2010
Skena Up Festival, Prishtina 2010
Festival Luso-Brasileiro, Studio des Ursulines, Paris 2010
Festival du film européen de Vannes, 2011
Fête de la francophonie, Swiss program, Kiev 2011
Festival UNESCO, Paris 2012
Screenings
Kurzfilmnacht 2010 (Zürich, Schaffausen, St-Gallen, Chur, Bern, Luzern, Aarau)
Nuit du court-métrage 2010 (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Genève, Sion, Ste-Croix, Delémont, Lugano, Fribourg, Lausanne, Morges)
“Fenêtre sur le court-métrage contemporain” program, Cinémathèque française, 2010
Special program "Trois court-métrages de Basil Da Cunha" 21.02-7.03.2013, Lausanne, Morges, Fribourg, Genève, Berne, Neuchâtel, Yverdon, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Zürich
TV
RTP, Portugal, 2011