2024: A Swiss Odyssey 2024：瑞士漫游

2024: A Swiss Odyssey

2024:瑞士漫游

Germany, Switzerland, China, Ukraine | 2025 | Drama | Documentary | 16 min

Director: Florian Rudolph, Yueqi Wu, Kyrylo Alferie

Screenwriter: Yueqi Wu

Executive Producer: Florian Rudolph, Yueqi Wu, Kyrylo Alferie

Producer: Florian Rudolph, Yueqi Wu, Kyrylo Alferie

Cinematographer: Florian Rudolph

Editor: Sarah Berner

Location Sound: Kyrylo Alferie

Art Director: Madita Kuhfuhs

Animation: Xiaoruo Guo

Sound: Lambert Regel

Music: Daria Sarraf

导演: Florian Rudolph,吴悦琪, Kyrylo Alferie

编剧: 吴悦琪

监制: Florian Rudolph,吴悦琪, Kyrylo Alferie

制片: Florian Rudolph,吴悦琪, Kyrylo Alferie

摄影指导: Florian Rudolph

剪辑: Sarah Berner

录音: Kyrylo Alferie

美术指导: Madita Kuhfuhs

动画: 郭小若

声音: Lambert Regel

音乐: Daria Sarraf

Synopsis

A Chinese researcher walks into a Swiss village with a documentary film crew. She is investigating the connection between the local Carnival tradition and extraterrestrials. As an outsider of this enclosed village, the researcher begins to encounter things out of her expectation, while the border between truth and conspiracy dreams starts to blur…

Festival&Award

Lund International Fantastic Film Festival 2025

FIRST International Film Festival Xining 2025

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2025

30°Sci-Fi Film Festival 2025

HiShorts! Film Festival 2025

Hangzhou Youth Video Project 2025

Director's Note

This is the second short film in our ‘Researcher’ docufiction trilogy. We are exploring an experimental filmmaking that breaks the boundary between documentary and fiction. Except for the ending, the rest of the film is unscripted and is based on the real experiences of us three in the village. We as fictional characters with a fictional mission interact with real residents in real situations. Our film jumps between social experiments and huge jokes until the reality joins in.

While most sci-fi productions take sides between aliens as threat or as messiah, we propose a third option: a lonely soul sending out a party invitation to the universe. While the carnival is invented to accommodate our collective imagination of mysterious forces, aliens help us to discover our attitude to the unknown. In the end, they all dissolve into a Dionysian celebration.

FYK

We are FYK, formed by three filmmakers and friends in Berlin: Florian Rudolph (Switzerland), Yueqi Wu (China) and Kyrylo Alferiev (Ukraine).

Flo is studying directing in Film University Babelsberg. He focuses on documentary filmmaking and has a soft heart for mushrooms and beetles.

Kyrylo is a student from Kyiv National University of Theatre, Film and Television. He majors in fiction filmmaking and Gaspar Noé’s movie and makes really great Varenyky.

Yueqi is doing a PhD in the Shakespeare Institute in UK and using Shakespearean acting techniques to pretend that she understands German.

This is the second short film in our ‘Researcher’ docufiction trilogy. The first one ‘Apocalypse Later’ follows a Chinese researcher conducting location scouting for the construction of a post-apocalypse shelter in a Village in East Germany. ‘Apocalypse Later’ was selected by several international festivals, including Internationales Filmfest Bad Saarow am Scharmützelsee (Germany), London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film (UK), FIRST Fantastic Film Festival (China)... It has also won the Best Short Film award in Daydream Fantasy Youth Film Festival (UK).