April 10 - 19, 2026
Tickets

FROM 1 APRIL

Gregor Braendli
Elephants & Squirrels
CH 2025, 115'
To buy TICKETS, click on the time (Bolzano only)
Thur
16.04.
17:45 Kassa
Fri
17.04.
20:30 Kassa
Credits
Director Gregor Braendli
Script Gregor Brändli
DOP Jonas Jäggy
Editing Gregor Brändli
Score Yanik Soland
Sound Jonas Jäggy, Kathleen Moser, Wendelin Schmidt-Ott, Silvio Anania, Victor Moser
Production soap factory
Produzent*in Frank Matter
Distribution Filmotor
Premiere DOK Leipzig
Sound Design Thomas Rechberger, Lara Wedekind

A dialogue on memory, restitution, and colonial responsibility: artist Deneth Piumakshi Veda Arachchige discovers ancestral remains and artifacts of the Wanniyala-Aetto in a Swiss museum. Together with the community’s chief, Deneth pursues their repatriation after colonial removal.

See more Less
Credits
Director Gregor Braendli
Script Gregor Brändli
DOP Jonas Jäggy
Editing Gregor Brändli
Score Yanik Soland
Sound Jonas Jäggy, Kathleen Moser, Wendelin Schmidt-Ott, Silvio Anania, Victor Moser
Production soap factory
Produzent*in Frank Matter
Distribution Filmotor
Premiere DOK Leipzig
Sound Design Thomas Rechberger, Lara Wedekind

Director

Gregor Braendli - 1986 CH
Gregor Braendli - 1986 CH

Gregor Braendli, born in 1986, is a filmmaker and photographer based in Basel, Switzerland. Since 2011, he has worked as an independent director and cinematographer on documentary and narrative films, as well as interdisciplinary theater projects. He is co-founder, writer, and performer with Theater Kollektiv Glück and co-founder of the design studio Tristesse. Elephants & Squirrels is his debut feature documentary.