99 Moons homes in on two characters united by feelings bordering on obsession. There’s Bigna, a researcher specialising in tsunamis who’s almost thirty and on the point of relocating to Chile for work reasons, and thirty-three-year-old Frank, who will shake up her convictions to the point she decides to stay.

In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement ("unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography and the telegraph are transforming the social order and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money and the government are not all but fictions.

An intricate psychological ode to simmering emotion amid unfettered separation anxiety, which took home a FIPRESCI Prize and Best Director award from the Berlinale’s Encounters competition. Lisa is moving into a new apartment, leaving former flatmates Mara and Markus adrift. Mara, in particular, struggles with the change. While everyone else pitches in to help Lisa set up her new home, Mara moons about, mostly just getting in the way. At one point, she even makes a joke about being a ghost – and, as she continues to haunt Lisa’s life, her yearning for things to remain the same becomes infectious. The second film in Ramon and Silvan Zürcher’s loose trilogy about human togetherness follows their award-winning feature debut, The Strange Little Cat, in building a lingering claustrophobic tension hemmed in by four walls. As extended family members, neighbours, handymen and hangers-on pass in and out of the two flats, a palpable undercurrent of sexual desire and jealously fills the frame, and an increasingly chaotic whirl of ambiguity – underscored by Eugen Doga’s Gramofon waltz – threatens to tear it all apart. As a cinematic madrigal on the nature of impermanence, The Girl and the Spider is a unique work of taut, existential distinction. “A powerfully choreographed exploration of alienation … told through an uncompromisingly original, tantalizing and opaque narrative that curiously moves like a dancer.” – High on Films

2015 film by Alain Gsponer

瑞士当代文学的旗手、国际布克奖提名作家 彼得•施塔姆 短篇小说代表作 《我们飞》是彼得•施塔姆于2008年出版的短篇小说集，其英文版入围2013年弗兰克•奥康纳国际短篇小说奖短名单，体现了彼得•施塔姆作为当今欧洲著名作家的写作水准。他以不动声色的叙事、看似简单实则隐含深意的故事情节和对人物心理、情绪准确的把握，讲出了当代人的种种尴尬：一个女人怎么会和她楼上的年轻邻居好上，一个男人等待着医院检查报告，一对新人如何适应共同的生活……这本小说集可以说是了解施塔姆作品的极佳入门书。 ———————————— 欧洲最令人兴奋的作家之一……一个可读而且经常想读的作家。 ——《纽约时报•书评周刊》 只有极少数几个作家能让读者在放下他的作品后，仍在他的世界里久久徘徊，我认为施塔姆就是其中之一。 ——李翊云 这些故事展现了我们生活方式、知识和语言上存在的种种局限，既令人难忘，又令人振奋。施塔姆是一个出色的讲故事的人，他成功地将普通人的表层一一剥落，揭示了日常复杂心理上的各种挣扎。 ——《当代世界文学》