Country: Switzerland
Year: 2026
Duration: 86'
Under record-breaking heat in the Persian Gulf, lives and social structures begin to transform. As the wealthy retreat into air-conditioned cold and others are left to endure the extremes, intertwined stories reveal how rising temperatures expose inequality, reshape behavior, and push humanity to its limits.
Biography
film director
Jacqueline Zünd
(Zurich, Switzerland) studied at the Ringier School of Journalism and at the London Film School. Her first feature-length documentary, Goodnight Nobody, screened at many international festivals and won her awards including Best Newcomer at Visions du Réel and an Honorary Mention at DOK Leipzig. Almost There premiered at IDFA and won a Swiss Film Award in 2018. The following documentary Where We Belong (2019) was selected at Berlinale Generation K Plus. In 2025 she released her first feature, the dystopic drama Don’t Let the Sun, selected in Locarno.
FILMOGRAFIA
Keis Händli - Kei Schoggi (coregia Susanna Hübscher, doc, 2002), Goodnight Nobody (doc, 2010), Almost There (doc, 2016), Where We Belong (doc, 2019), Don’t Let the Sun (id., 2025), Heat (doc, 2026).
Declaration
film director
“I am interested in heat as a state and a borderline experience. Since my first film Goodnight Nobody, in which I dedicated myself to insomnia, I have been interested in making conditions cinematically tangible and experienceable. I wanted to translate heat visually without illustrating it, like a kind of cinematic mirage.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Jacqueline Zünd. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nikolai von Graevenitz. EDITING: Gion-Reto Killias. MUSIC: Marcel Vaid. SOUND: Kane Rodrigues, Hagop Moumojian, Masaki Hatsui. PRODUCTION: Louis Mataré for Lomotion AG. COPRODUCTION: real Film GmbH. CONTACT: Azra Jasarevic, Taskovski Films sales@taskovskifilms.com
