International Documentary Film Festival
March 30 - April 6, 2025
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

The Landscape and the Fury

Nicole Vögele

The Landscape and the Fury

At the north-western tip of Bosnia, near the green border with Croatia and thus EU, migrants trudge through the night, the rain and the snow in search of shelter and a better life. When they are brutally chased across the border out of the EU into the grey blackness of the woods, discouraged and disorientated, they find themselves in the middle of nowhere that is Ravnice. The villagers know of the fate that awaits these refugees – they were once in their shoes. They provide them with a moment of respite and safety while everyday life continues around them. The Landscape and the Fury is a portrait of a perhaps inconsolable, haunted landscape, as if in the throes of a nightmare. But also a portrait of human resilience and warmth. A bright flicker in the darkness.

Switzerland 2024, '138

DIRECTOR: Nicole Vögele

CAMERA: Stefan Sick

MONTAGE: Hannes Bruun

MUSIC: Alva Noto

PRODUCERS: Aline Schmid, Adrian Blaser

PRODUCTION: Beauvoir Films

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

Visions du Réel: Grand Jury Prize  (2024)
IDFA (2024)
Doclisboa (2024)
Ji.hlava (2024) 
DOK Leipzig (2024)
Ghent FF (2024)
Locarno IFF (2024)
Shanghai IFF (2024)
Dokufest (2024)

Nicole Vögele

Nicole Vögele

Nicole Vögele was born in 1983 in Olten, Switzerland. She studied journalism in Lucerne and documentary filmmaking at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. She is known for her shorts Mrs Loosli (2013), awarded at Visions du Réel and Fog (2014), which premiered at Berlinale and screened in competition at many renowned international documentary festivals. Her debut feature-length documentary Closing Time (2018) premiered at the Locarno Festival, was awarded with the Special Jury Prize of the Cineasti del presente competition and screened around the globe.

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