Talking Shadows
Lévana Schütz / Romania, Switzerland / 2025 / World Premiere / 15 min.
synopsis
Through its secret service, the Securitate, the Romanian communist regime built a monstrous system of spying and mutual surveillance of its own citizens. This stylized documentary, imitating the optics of hidden cameras, reveals in three short interviews the terrifying dimensions that the need for pervasive control can take on.“Film is to her a medium with a particular quality that implies a fundamentally concrete relationship with time.” — Lévana Schütz’s website
biography
Lévana Schütz is a French and Swiss artist and filmmaker. She studied visual arts at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and experimental cinema at NSCAD University in Canada. After starting her career in visual arts, she took part in various art residencies and exhibitions in France and abroad. Starting in 2024, she enrolled in the Master’s program in Cinema at ECAL–HEAD in Switzerland.film details
| director: | Lévana Schütz |
| cast: | Miruna Rancun, Virgiliu Ţârău, Andreï Chircev |
| producer: | Master Cinema ECAL-HEAD |
| photography: | Lévana Schütz |
| editing: | Jacob Detwiler |
| music: | Sonia Morin, Jaime Flores Cáceres |
| sound: | Călin Indrecan |
| sound design: | Krisztián Dunkler, Michael Girod |
contact
Schütz Lévanalevana.schutz@ecal.ch
Screening time
Saturday 25. 10. 2025, 22:00
Kino DKO I
Film at festival
| premiere type: | World Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2025 |
| section: | Short Joy |
| language: | Romanian |
| subtitles: | Czech, English |
| colour: | Black and white |
Info
| director: | Lévana Schütz |
| original title: | Umbrele vorbesc |
| country: | Romania, Switzerland |
| year: | 2025 |
| running time: | 15 min. |
