ZAHORÍ
a fiction feature film by Marí Alessandrini
World premiere at the Locarno Film Festival 74, Concorso Cineasti del presente 2021
CALABRIA
Pierre-François Sauter / 117 min / documentary / 2016
CALABRIA is a road movie in a hearse. After the death of a Calabrian emigrant who came to Switzerland to find work, two undertakers, Jovan and José, emigrants themselves, travel from the north to the south of Italy to repatriate the deceased to his home village.
MELODIAS
by François Bovy / 70 min / documentary / 2005
Set in Columbia, the film tells the stories of Dario, the taxi driver; of Jorge, who unloads trucks; of the policeman Edwin; and of Luis Carlo, who looks after the injured and brings the dead to the morgue.
IN PRODUCTION / IN DEVELOPMENT
FAR WEST
by Pierre-François Sauter
ANIMAL DREAM
by Pierre-François Sauter
INSECTICIDE
by François Bovy
MY FRIEND GUILLAUME
by Nicolas Wagnières
WHO ARE WE?
Le Laboratoire Central is a production company dedicated to the development and production of independent and ambitious films that explore the personal universe of their authors.
Created in 2003 with the desire to consider production as a tool at the service of the artistic process, Le Laboratoire Central (formerly: “Les films de la dernière heure”) brings together the skills of Nadejda Magnenat, producer, François Bovy and Pierre-François Sauter, both directors.