FRAGMENTS DU PARADIS
ABOUT HEAVEN
Stéphane Goël / Switzerland / 2015 / 85 min / Colour
To climb a mountain is to climb toward Paradise, even more so if the mountain is in Switzerland, a land that some believe or experience as though an"earthly paradise". For those nearing the twilight of life, even in atheist and agnostic Switzerland, the question of what lies on the other side comes up. The residents of a rest home, asked about this, express themselves with hope, certainty, and doubts. But perhaps Paradise is only that place in the heart where the elderly father of the director has requested his ashes be dispersed. "If there is Paradise, it must resemble that place". And so, father and son walk together toward the mountains.
Stéphane Goël
Born in Lausanne in 1965, he has worked as a director and film editor since the age of twenty. He studied documentary filmmaking at the non-profit television centre, Global Village Experimental Center, in the USA. Now back in Switzerland, he directs and produces film and television documentaries in collaboration with the collective Climage.
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Sound Jérôme CuendetEditing Karine SudanMusic Jean-Philippe ZwahlenProducer CLIMAGE AudiovisuelProduction company CLIMAGE Audiovisuel
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