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Peter Entell

Suisse

Biographie

Peter Entell was born in 1952 in New York, USA. Since 1975 lives in Switzerland. Originally studied antropology but later decided for documentary filmmaking. He has worked in Europe, Africa and Asia on social, political and environmental projects. He received the Guggenheim Foundation grant. In 1998, nominated for the Swiss Film Prize for the Best Documentary for Rolling.

Filmography:

Moving on: The Hunger for Land in Zimbabwe (Switzerland, 1983)
Depending on Heaven (Switzerland, 1987)
Waiting for the Caribou (Switzerland, 1991)
Rolling (93´, France/Switzerland, 1997)
Le tube (81´, Belgium/Switzerland, 2001)
Josh's Trees/ Les arbres de Josh (76´, Switzerland, 2005)
Shake the Devil Off (99´, Switzerland, 2007)

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Haiku - Peter Entell

Haiku - Peter Entell (Orig.) / Suisse

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Shake the Devil Off

Shake the Devil Off (Orig.) / 2007 / Suisse / 99 min

La Nouvelle-Orléans, six mois après le passage dévastateur de l’ouragan Katrina. Les habitants, pour la plupart des afro-américains, ont perdu leurs proches, leurs maisons, leur travail.

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Le Tube

Le Tube (Orig.) / 2001 / Belgique, Suisse / 82 min

A little girl throws a fit when the television is turned off. What's going on? Everyone seems either hypnotized, addicted, or turned into a vegetable by the tube. Her father, a TV journalist, decides to get to the bottom of it.

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Les arbres de Josh

Josh's Trees (Orig.) / 2005 / Suisse / 76 min

Quand le meilleur ami du réalisateur meurt, son fils a moins d'une année. Cinq ans après, le garçon commence à s’interroger sur la personne qu'était son père. Comment l’aider à se forger une image de son papa dont il ne se souvient plus?

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