Chnoi
Knees
Switzerland, Planned for 4th quarter 2025
FILM,
Fiction,
91 min.
- directed by
- Silvan Hillmann, Andreas Müller
- Written by
- Silvan Hillmann, Andreas Müller
- Status
- Post-production
Developed in parallel, two films echo each other through recurring characters, settings, and motifs.
In the first film Lia works at Zurich customs, inspecting shipments for counterfeit goods. She has lived with chronic knee pain for years. One weekend, while her friends set off in search of a lake, Lia stays behind. She decides to undergo placebo knee surgery: a treatment said to be effective even though she knows nothing real will be changed inside her body.
The second film follows Lia through places and encounters. People seem familiar yet strangely altered, as if replaced by slightly different versions of themselves. Differences blur. Roles dissolve.
credits
- World Premiere
- Planned for 4th quarter 2025
- Original Version
- Italian, Swiss-German, German (english subtitles), colour, DCP, 91 min.
- Production
- glos Film
- Producer
- Emanuel Signer, Ilona Stutz
- directed by
- Silvan Hillmann, Andreas Müller
- Written by
- Silvan Hillmann, Andreas Müller
- Cinematography
- Silvan Hillmann, Dominik Zietlow, Meret Bhend
- Editing
- Olivia Frey, Enrico Fröhlich
- Location Sound Mix
- Andreas Müller, Nicolas Buzzi, Tillo Spreng, Sarah Santamaria
Cast
Hatun Timur as Ärztin
Lia Cattaneo as Lia
Paul Grivelet as Paul
Bernhard Hegglin as Beni
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- glos Film