Schwitze

Synopsis:
Sitting in a steam sauna, Beat and Toni are sweating the truth out of their bodies. The cuckoo is setting the beat. And Beat is laying an egg - or so it seems...

About the director:
Nicolas Steiner was born in 1984 and grew up in a small town the Swiss Alps. In his high school years he had the chance to take part in several Swiss fiction movies as an actor. He also played in different bands and combos as a drummer, and served in the Swiss Military in an army music corps. He then worked as an intern at various radio stations, he did work shops with Blueman group and Stomp. For two summers he worked in his hometown as a gravedigger. In 2005 and 2006 he attended the European Film College in Denmark and then studied for one year social anthropology, film science and politics at the Zuerich University. Since October 2007 he is studying directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Film budget: $9000