New US Trailer for Acclaimed Swiss Film 'Unrest' About Watchmakers

"I worked slowly on purpose." KimStim has revealed an official US trailer for the Swiss indie film Unrest, which first premiered at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival last year. It's getting a limited art house release this May. The experimental film is set in Switzerland around 1877, "when the disparity between the authorities, manufacturers and models gives rise to parallel temporal dimensions." New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labour, she gets involved with the local movement of the anarchist watchmakers, where she meets a Russian traveller. The director "continues to refine his style, which combines meticulous composition – both in his characteristic wide shots as well as in the extreme close-ups celebrating manual labour – with a distinct political stance." The Swiss indie film stars Clara Gostynski, Alexei Evstratov, Monika Stalder, Hélio Thiémard, and Li Tavor. Many critics flipped for this film at the fests - looks like it's worth a watch (ha). // Continue Reading ›

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