documentaries
Margreet Honig
True Singing
Margreet Honig, eighty-four years old, is an internationally sought-after Dutch singing teacher. She teaches all over Europe and works with world-famous singers. She has developed her very own way of working, which is a pleasant contrast to the usual music education, which is fixated on perfection and performance. Her approach is therefore highly topical, also in relation to social changes in the areas of education and pedagogy.
Zürcher Tagebuch
(Zurich Diary)
ZURICH DIARY is a personal mirror image, interweaving in a poetic way thoughts, reflections and voices of these confusing, emotional, threatening yet also beautiful and extremely vivid times.
A cinematic diary, personally rooted, from a political and social perspective, with the courage to be incomplete and partial.
A film about the irritating simultaneity of the inner and outer world, of daily routine and the state of emergency.
Theatrical release Switzerland:
November 2020
Mare Nostrum
A Concert. A Journey.
A film by Michelle Brun & Stefan Haupt
Production: Vivante Productions
Students from the Scuola Vivante are preparing for a concert with Jordi Savall and his 18-piece ensemble from 11 different countries by asking him and his fellow musicians the questions they have always wanted to have answered. The musicians talk about their lives and the places they call home. They talk about their instruments and their love of music. Working together and interacting with music creates connections.
SAGRADA – el misteri de la creaciÓ
The Sagrada Família in Barcelona is a unique and fascinating building. It is the brainchild of the architect Antoni Gaudí, a once controversial genius, and the work of an army of laborers. SAGRADA is a film about the mysterious process of artistic creation, revolving around the question of our human creative power and how we want to use it.
A song for ARGYRIS
Distomo: a small farming village at a stone’s throw from the sea, on the road leading from Athens to Delphi. This is where little Argyris, who was not even four years old, survived a brutal massacre committed by the German occupying forces. Argyris lost his parents and thirty more relatives.
Winner Audience Award
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2007
Downtown switzerland
Zurich in the autumn of 2003: an insidious change of climate, which had more to do with politics than with the weather, made Christian Davi, Stefan Haupt, Kaspar Kasics, and Fredi M. Murer go on a spontaneous trail-hunting tour of their city. Each followed the irregular beat of life in the “Swiss metropolis of culture and economy”.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross – Facing Death
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is arguably the world’s most reknowned expert on the process of dying. With Kübler Ross’ full collaboration, Haupt’s film looks back on her life and career, from her earliest days as a triplet in 1920s Zurich, to her fame as an international lecturer and writer based in the US. Now in her twilight years, Kübler-Ross is bedbound in Arizona, and awaiting death herself.
Increschantüm
A film about the music of the “Fränzlis”, about its spirit, the people who perform it, their culture, their history, and the way they are torn between tradition and progress. A film about the Engadine region, about the love and longing which it inspires, and above all about homesickness.
I’m just a simple person
Kathrin Engler, an orphan from the St. Gall region of the Rhine valley, was 22 when she accepted her childhood sweetheart’s written marriage proposal and emigrated to Canada. The portrait of this extremely humble 90-year-old woman, who now lives in the Province of Alberta, provides a fascinating insight into the social history and the annals of Swiss emigration. More than that, it reveals a wonderful love story worthy of fairy tales – one that almost did not come about.