DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY

Robin Hunzinger
After studying History and Art History in Strasbourg, Robin Hunzinger pursued Film Studies at Jussieu University under the mentorship of Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, and Bernard Cuau. Since then, he has directed documentary films exploring history, war, memory, humanity’s confrontation with the unimaginable, and nature. A true home-filmmaker, he writes, reads, re-films, scans, reframes, reworks, records, edits, and re-edits — often alone in his studio set in the Vosges mountains.

His films have been showcased at numerous festivals across Europe, North America, and Asia, including Cinéma du Réel (Paris), DOCAVIV (Tel Aviv), DOK.fest Munich, DOXA (Vancouver), É Tudo Verdade (São Paulo), États Généraux du Film Documentaire (Lussas), FIDBA (Buenos Aires), IDFA (Amsterdam), IFFR (Rotterdam), Joburg Film Festival (Johannesburg), and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
They have also been exhibited in major museums such as SFMOMA (San Francisco) and the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris).

Robin Hunzinger has received three SCAM stars (2007, 2008, and 2018), along with several prestigious awards: the Grand Prize at the Traces de Vie Festival (2008), the Ahmed Attia Award at MEDIMED (2011), the Freedom Award at the Luxor African Film Festival, the Prize for Educational Film at the International Festival of Educational Film in Évreux (2019), the Beeld en Geluid ReFrame Award for Best Creative Use of Archive at IDFA (2021), the Grand Prix and Audience Award at Écrans Mixtes (2022), and the Best Editing Award at RIDFF (2022).

Filmography (selection)

« le recours aux forêts » 92min, 2019.
« L’homme qui voulait savoir », 52 minutes, 2018.
« Inventaire avant disparition », 55 minutes, 2016.
“ Vers la forêt de Nuages”, 62 minutes, 2015. “L’insaisissable Albert Kahn”, 52 minutes, 2012.
“Sarajevo : Notre résistance”, 52 minutes, 2011.
“Notre camarade Tito”, 52 minutes, 2011
“La Bête des Vosges : Autopsie d’une rumeur”, 53 minutes, 2008.
“Ou sont nos amoureuses”, 53 minutes, 2007.
“Closing your Eyes”, 52 minutes, 2006.
“Natzwiller-Struthof : Un souvenir français”, 59 minutes, 2004.
“Eloge de la cabane”, 52 minutes, 2003.
“Voyage dans l’entre-deux”, 52 minutes, 2001.
“Les Pionniers du Paysage”, 43 minutes, 2000.
“Gorazde, psychogéographie d’une frontière”, 52 minutes, 1998.

CREDITS

Director, writer Robin Hunzinger
DOP Eirik Nicolai Heim
Editing Robin Hunzinger, Benoît Quinon
Sound Engineers Marc Namblard, Marcus Sjödin
Composer Bendik Giske
Sound editing Marc Namblard, Hassen Bahloul
Producer Cédric Bonin
Production company SEPPIA
Co-producers Malcolm Dixelius (Dixit International), Karl Emil Rikardsen (RELATION04 Media)
ARTE France, SVT

SUPPORTED BY

Région Grand-Est, Eurométropole de Strasbourg, Procirep-Angoa, CNC, Arctic Film Norway

PRODUCER’S BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY

Cédric Bonin
A graduate of the business school ESC in Montpellier, Cédric Bonin acquired much experience before joining Seppia in 2002. He completed European-level training (Eurodoc, Eave) and became associate manager of Seppia with Pascaline Geoffroy, where together they developed international co-production.

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Seppia was founded in 2002, and specialises in the production of scientific, cultural, historical, commercial and discovery films, mainly for international TV channels, but also for the cinema and other platforms, such as DVD and the Internet. Seppia has a catalogue of 60 hours of programs, somme of which have been sold worldwide or selected by the major festivals (Director’s Fortnight at Cannes, IDFA, Prix Europea, Siverdocs Washington, to name but a few). The company has many other complementary activities: documentary film production for TV, cinema and the Internet; TV and trans media programmes; and dubbing, multi-lingual subtitling, and sound and image post-production for broadcast.

SEPPIA
Strasbourg, France
+33 (0)3 88 52 95 95
contact@seppia.eu
https://www.seppia.eu

CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY

Dixit International is a production company specializing in international documentaries and reportages. Founded in 1994 by former SVT Moscow correspondent Malcolm Dixelius, the company has so far produced a dozen documentaries, pioneered an international affairs series and participated in numerous other broadcasts with reportages, comment and editorial expertise.

Dixit International
Stavsnäs, Sweden
malcolm@dixit.se
http://www.dixit.se

Relation04 Media AS (Ltd) has produced films for TV, cinema, internet and other media since 2004. We are mainly focused on documentaries as main producers and coproducers.
The company is situated in the north of Norway and we have a special attention to stories from the north. On the other hand, it is the good stories and distinct voices we are looking for, no matter where they come from.

RELATION04
Harstad, Norway
media@relation04.com
+47 47234597
http://relation04.com