Totemic
Germany / Switzerland, Planned for 1st quarter 2027
FILM,
Documentary,
90 min.
- directed by
- Stéphanie Barbey
- Written by
- Stéphanie Barbey
- Status
- In development
The director is off to Alaska, following in her great-grandfather’s footsteps, to seek the meaning of the two totem poles he brought back to Geneva’s Museum of Ethnography in 1956, and which have lulled the imagination of an entire generation. Her investigation takes her to Annette Island, Alaska’s only native reserve. There, she discovers a people in the midst of an identity renaissance, after years of acculturation. When they learn of the existence of the two Geneva totem poles, a whole part of their history is revealed.
credits
- World Premiere
- Planned for 1st quarter 2027
- Original Version
- colour, DCP, 90 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-6165-0000-I-0000-0000-K
- Production
- Intermezzo Films, Dirk Manthey Film, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, ARTE
- Producer
- Luc Peter
- directed by
- Stéphanie Barbey
- Written by
- Stéphanie Barbey
- Cinematography
- Nikolai von Graevenitz
- Location Sound Mix
- Masaki Hatsui, Camille Bonard
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Intermezzo Films