37th edition
18-26 january 2025

Le Chant de l'oiseau

Sarah Imsand

Image Le Chant de l'oiseau
Switzerland
2019 Fiction 19 min
Ibrahim is a concierge at an art school in Switzerland. One day, a student who is looking for Ethiopian songs for a project asks him for help. Her insistence will force Ibrahim to reconnect with his past and his origins.
With : Ibrahim Mohammed, Ianjasse Matabele, Aicha Gaillard
Screenplay : Sarah Imsand
Image : Sarah Imsand
Sound : Zacharie Ruegg, Yan Sterckx
Editing : Alexandra Simpson
Production : HEAD - Haute école d'art et de design de Genève
Born in 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland, to a Swiss mother and an Ethiopian father, Sarah Imsand graduated in 2017 in History and Aesthetics of cinema from Lausanne University and in 2020 in Cinema from HEAD–Genève (Haute École d'Art et de Design). Her first short Le Chant de l'oiseau was selected at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, Cinéfondation.