Like an Island

Synopsis

In the heat of the summer, two watchmen secure the river that runs through a neighbourhood in Lausanne. Ammar is new to the job, and Daniel shares his experience with him. During their rounds and encounters with the inhabitants, they observe and are observed, while bonds are being formed. And the question arises: what could have happened by the river?

Director Biography

Tizian Büchi, a graduate of the University of Lausanne in the history and aesthetics of cinema and of the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD – Belgium) in directing, he works as a distributor for the Zurich-based company Look Now!, as a teaching assistant in the cinema department of the HEAD in Geneva and as a programmer for various festivals including the NIFFF in Neuchâtel, the Locarno Festival, and currently for the Solothurn Days and the Kurzfilmtage in Winterthur. After “We said we would go all the way up” and “The Season of Silence”, “The Island” is his first feature film.