Film Music — Tarek Schmidt

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This feature length documentary plunges us into the imaginary world of witchcraft crimes.
It reveals the workings of an infernal judicial machine that led thousands of men, women and children to the stake. It premiered at the Solothurn Film Festival in January 2022.

Cast:
**Lionel Dorthe, Martine Ostorero, Fabienne Taric, Michel Porret, Kathrin Utz Tremp**

**Credits:**
directed by: **Maria** **Nicollier**
produced by: **Maria** **Nicollier**, **Cyril** **Dépraz**, **REC** **Production & Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)**
cinematography: **Patrick** **Mounoud**, **Philippe** **Calame**
editing: **Orsola** **Valenti**
animation: **Raphaël** **Haab**
sounddesign: **Laurent** **Jespersen**
music: **Tarek** **Schmidt**
music mix: **Jakob Schneider**

Hamama & Caluna Poster.jpg — *nominated for the Swiss Film Prize © 2018*
The two young friends Hamama and Caluna have left everything behind to flee their home country and ended up stranded in a camp in northern Italy. One day, they decide to cross the closed border into Switzerland under cover of darkness by going over the Alps.

**Credits:**
directed by: **Andreas Muggli**
sounddesign: **Andreas Muggli**
sound mix: **Beni Mosele**
music: **Tarek Schmidt**

Elephant in the Room Poster.jpg — Without understanding why, Irna senses that the relationship with her son Jago is becoming more and more hopeless.
She seeks refuge in her own world, whose centre is Elias, a rubber doll.
While Irna holds on to her own reality with all her might, Jago desperately tries to make his mother understand.

Cast:
**Doris Schefer**
**Johannes Hegemann**

**Credits:**
written & directed by: **Chanelle Eidenbenz**
producer: **Filippo Bonacci**
cinematograhpy: **Pascal Reinmann**
editing: **Florian Geisseler**
sounddesign: **Lotta Määki**
sound mix: **Gregg Skerman**
music: **Tarek Schmidt**

The ambitious dancer Jiara Becker runs away after she finds out, that her mother has passed a congenital heart-disease on to her without ever revealing it. After years of complete silence, beaten up and heavily in debt, Jiara returns home to her mother, where she has to decide whether she can forgive or wants to keep running away.

Cast:
Sima Bürgin
Gian Rupf
Jasmine Faye Friedrich

Credits:
directed, written & produced by: Serge Zehnder
cinematography: Manuel Haefele
editing: Carmen Walker, Florian Geisseler
sounddesign: Patrycja Pakiela
sound mix: Gregg Skerman
music: Tarek Schmidt
music recorded & mixed by: Max Molling

In a cold and icy world, a tough young huntress searches for food for her village,
when suddenly an orange sphere appears in the blue sky.

**Credits**:
directed & animated by: **Géraldine Camissar** & **Daniel Zinsstag**
producer: **Gerd Gockell**
compositing: **Lalita Brunner**
sounddesign: **Christof** **Steinmann**, **Leoni** **Dietrich** & **Befrin Özgür**
sound mix: **Christof Steinmann**
music: **Tarek Schmidt**
music mix: **Benjamin Gut**

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