RIVERBOOM

By Claude BAECHTOLD

BAC FILMS - as SALES World

Documentary - Completed 2023

Afghanistan, 2002. Trois jeunes reporters montent dans une voiture pour un périple qui va changer leur vie à tout jamais. Serge, un journaliste moraliste et bourreau de travail, Paolo, un photographe aussi jovial qu’inconscient, et Claude, un typographe suisse froussard qui s’improvise cinéaste.

Festivals
& Awards

FIPADOC 2024
BEST FIRST FILM
Premiers plans d'Angers 2024
AUDIENCE AWARD
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 95 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Claude BAECHTOLD
    • Synopsis
    • In the year following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in the war zone of Afghanistan. Not entirely voluntarily, the self-confessed anti-militarist from French-speaking Switzerland is dragged on a tour of the entire country by two fearless reporters. Equipped with a video camera he bought at a bazaar in Kabul, he follows them for two months on a daring journey. With impressive archive footage that was until recently thought lost, Baechtold captures in his humorous road movie doc how he inadvertently becomes a war reporter and is able thereby to deal with his own personal strokes of fate.