Boggsen
Boggsing
Terace
Switzerland, January 2011
FILM,
Documentary,
38 min.
- directed by
- Jürg Neuenschwander
- Written by
- Bruno Remund, Jürg Neuenschwander
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.boggsen.ch
Approximately 800'000 Swiss cannot read or write well upon graduating from school. Their functional illiteracy makes them suffer. They conceal it in their everyday lives because thoughtless people have dismissed them as dumb and lazy since they were little. The film shows ten of these people as they go public with their predicament. We learn what strategies they have developed to avoid humiliation; we hear about taboo subjects and great suffering. And they tell us why it has been worth breaking out of their invisible prisons. The film gives words to people who only used to get red pencil marks.
credits
- World Premiere
- January 2011
- Original Version
- French, Swiss-German (german voice over subtitles), colour, HD Cam, 38 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-A2C8-0000-2-0000-0000-V
- Production
- Container Film AG
- Producer
- Jürg Neuenschwander
- directed by
- Jürg Neuenschwander
- Written by
- Bruno Remund, Jürg Neuenschwander
- Cinematography
- Philippe Cordey
- Editing
- Katrin Suhren
- Sound Editing
- Peter Von Siebenthal
- Re-Recording Mix
- Peter Von Siebenthal
- Music
- Peter Von Siebenthal
- Location Sound Mix
- Patrick Becker, Balthasar Jucker, Andreas Litmanowitsch
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Container Film AG
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Nyon, 17e Visions du Réel Festival international de cinéma Nyon
07.04.2011 - 13.04.2011 -
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
20.01.2011 - 27.01.2011