For the trees
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| Original title | For the trees |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 86 minutes |
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| Director | Pablo Callisaya |
| script | Pablo Callisaya |
| production | Pablo Callisaya |
| music | Rosanna Zünd |
| camera | Daniel Akhtar |
| cut | Pablo Callisaya, Cesare Macri , Chris Bucher |
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For the trees is the first feature film by the Swiss - Bolivian director Pablo Callisaya. The film had its world premiere in 2017 at the 51st edition of the Hofer Filmtage festival in Germany .
action
Manuel is fine. Even his pretended request to be allowed to pursue his coke addiction at least on the weekend does not prevent the doctor from recommending him for military service. Everything is in order there. He is ordered around, but also praised for his shooting performance. When his father insists that he should follow a career as an officer in order to secure himself financially for his studies, he agrees. But on the first visit to the house, the friend says goodbye, who finds their relationship too complicated and has already met someone else. However, Manuel finds it difficult to find his way around during his studies. If it weren't for the old buddies from his youth, he felt completely overwhelmed. All attempts to get a "normal life" fail and the return from the student flat share to the parents' house makes his problems even worse. Despite the best of circumstances and privileged prospects for a fulfilled life, the so-called "best years" of his life pass him by without a convincing meaning in life.
production
Callisaya began writing the first version while he was still studying screenwriting in Madrid (2010-2011). During the 2013 summer vacation, when Callisaya was in the second year of his bachelor's degree in film at the Zurich University of the Arts , he made the film with a budget of CHF 35,000. The film was largely financed by private donations and endowments. At the same time as the film was released, Callisaya founded the production company Tapir Filmatelier , based in Lucerne .
criticism
Following its world premiere at the festival Hof Film Festival 2017, the film in the category was International Newcomer of the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg shown 2017th In the country of production, Switzerland, the film was not selected for any festivals.
In September 2017, the German film critic Wolfgang Nierlin published the following review for the Swiss film magazine Filmbulletin - magazine for film and cinema :
“In his debut feature film For the Trees, the young Lucerne filmmaker Pablo Callisaya (born in 1989) unfolds the uncertainty of a young man in the web of possibilities in a few concise lines and with hidden humor. Between individual disorientation, indefinite expectations and social determinations, the pressure to which Manuel is unprepared increases continuously. [...] But despite this downward spiral, in which all searching is only a reaction, Callisaya dismisses the hero of his own biography-inspired coming-of-age drama - and with him the audience - not without hope. Admittedly, at the end of the socially realistic generation portrait that was intuitively shot in black and white - Manuel is a representative of the so-called Generation Y - he still doesn't know where to go, but he is at least leaving. "
Web links
- The trees in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- For the trees at swissfilms.ch
- Film review in the film bulletin
- Festival entry yard
- Festival entry Mannheim
- Official website of the film