A Piece Of Sky
- 2022
- Switzerland, Germany
- 136 min. / Color
- 1:1.37 / Dolby 5.1
In a remote mountain village high in the Swiss Alps, the fledgling love between Anna and Marco is put to a severe test. Throughout the changing seasons and against all odds, Anna holds on to her love.
Cast
- Michèle Brand
- Simon Wisler
- Daniela Barmettler
- Sepp Aschwanden
- Daniel Imholz
- Elin Zgraggen
Produced by hugofilm features (CH), in co-production with Pandora Film Produktion (D), Schweizer Fernsehen SRF and ARTE
Crew
- Screenplay & Director
- Michael Koch
- Assistant director
- Chloé Le Grand
- Producer
- Christof Neracher, hugofilm features
- Co-producers
- Claudia Steffen, Christoph Friedel, Pandora Film Produktion
- Cinematographer
- Armin Dierolf
- Editor
- Florian Riegel
- Music
- Tobias Koch, Jannik Giger
- Production design & Costume design
- Sara Giancane
- Props
- Jessica Schmid, Leonia Brenner
- Wardrobe
- Miriam Stöcklin
- Make-up
- Sabine Flückiger, Ronald Fahm
- Sound
- Jean-Pierre Gerth
- Camera assistant
- Linus Rieser
- Dolly grip
- Bernd Mayer
- Key grip
- Mark Warnecke
- Sound design
- Tobias Koch
- Re-recording mixer
- Matthias Lempert
- Production management
- Florian Widmeier
- World Sales
- New Europe Film Sales
Press
“The Berlinale offers a great discovery from Switzerland!”
Daniel Kothenschulte, Frankfurter Rundschau
“This beautiful, tragic, comforting, uplifting film is a declaration of faith.”
Katja Nicodemus, Die Zeit
“A Piece of Sky clearly stood out from the competition as having the most tightly packed narrative.”
Hannah Pilarczyk, Der Spiegel
“A Piece of Sky is both beautifully made and a thing of beauty in itself.”
Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline
“A stark, affecting, sometimes enigmatic, superbly executed piece.”
Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily
“Stunning image-making fills out the stark storytelling in Swiss director Michael Koch's potent, stoically moving second feature A Piece of Sky.”
Guy Lodge, Variety
Festivals
- Berlin International Film Festival, 2022
- Taipei Film Festival, 2022
- Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival, 2022
- New Horizons Int. Film Festival, 2022
- Guanajuato Int. Film Festival, 2022
- Motovun Film Festival, 2022
- Locarno Int. Film Festival, 2022
- Hong Kong Int. Film Festival, 2022
- Vancouver Int. Film Festival, 2022
- Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montreal, 2022
- Film Fest Gent, 2022
- Chicago Int. Film Festival, 2022
- Haifa Int. Film Festival, 2022
- São Paulo Int. Film Festival, 2022
- Viennale, 2022
- Bergen Int. Film Festival, 2022
- Bogota Int. Film Festival, 2022
- Thessaloniki Int Film Festival, 2022
- Goa Int. Film Festival, 2022
- Denver Film Fest, 2022
- Tbilisi Int. Film Festival, 2022
- Chennai Int. Film Festival, 2022
- Göteborg Film Festival, 2022
