Winterstilte. The Netherlands–Switzerland, 2008, 70 min.
HDCam, written and directed by Sonja Wyss, camera: Peter Brugman, sound: Gijs Stohlmann, music: Wise Man’s Child, cast: Gerda Zangger, Sandra Utzinger, Brigitta Weber, Katalin Liptak, Sarah Bühlmann, Eleonore Jensch, Werner Imhoff. Produced by SNG Film, Amsterdam, with the support of the Dutch Film Fund
Award: Golden Calf, 2008, Best Sound

Striking images of a hard-edged brilliance are the reason to see Winter Silence, video artist Sonja Wyss's feature debut, composed in an isolated Swiss village suspended in time. Wyss tells the story of a widow and her four daughters locked in a hermetic web of intense Catholic faith and local superstition, all tied to the snow-bound landscape. It is an archaic story of sexual awakening and religious mysticism in the director’s Swiss homeland. “With the realisation of Winter Silence a whole new world opened for me… Sometimes magical moments occurred during shooting, where we, the crew, were spectators astonished at what was unfolding before the camera.” (Sonja Wyss)

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The film Winter Silence, a Dutch-Swiss feature by Sonja Wyss, is set in a breathtakingly beautiful landscape, in a mountain village in Switzerland, and offers balladistic and spacious silences, and strong images.
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