99 Moons
by Jan Gassmann
ACID 2022
Out of Competition 2022
Official synopsis
Bigna, a 28-year-old scientist, controls her entire existence, including her enigmatic sex life. As for him, Frank, 33, seeks meaning in his own life by feeding on the affection of others and plunging into the darkness of artificial paradises. Those contradictory trajectories meet, get intertwined and culminate in mad love.
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The programmer’s eye
In his wonderfully successful documentary “Europe, She Loves” (2016), Jan Gassman already offered an immersion in the intimacy of couples. His first feature, “99 Moons”, focuses on the evolution of a couple over the long term in an essential search for freedom and an attempt to escape the constraints of heteronormativity. This quest builds a fantastic geography of cinema: extraordinary parties take place behind the door of an unlikely restaurant, and Michelle Gurevich's songs give the shadows of heterosexuality a denser colour, lit by multiple moons. One of the most amazing films of 2022.
Natacha Seweryn
Biography and Filmography
Jan Gassman is a director working on the borderline between fiction and documentary filmmaking.In 2004, he began his studies in documentary filmmaking at HFF Munich. His first feature film, Chrigu, was presented at the 57th Berlinale and was successful in theaters. He won a Bern and Zurich Cinema Award in 2008, as well as the Walo Prize in 2009. Jan Gassmann then directed his first fictional feature film, Off Beat, selected for the Panorama section of the 60th Berlinale, and co-directed the documentary Karma Shadub, winner of the International Jury Prize at the Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon. In 2015, he initiated the political and collective film Heimatland, presented in the international competition at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2016, his film Europe, she loves, about four couples on the outskirts of Europe, was chosen as the opening film of the Panorama Dokumente at the Berlinale. The film won several awards and was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize and the European Film Prize. In 2022, Gassmann directed 99 Moons, produced by Zodiac Pictures. This amour-fou made its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Acid section. The film was sold to more than 25 territories.
2024 : Paradises of Diane - Carmen Jaquier & Jan Gassman - Co-Director
2022 : 99 MOONS - Jan Gassman - Director
2016 : EUROPE, SHE LOVES - Jan Gassman - Director
2015 : HEIMATLAND (2015) - Carmen Jaquier & Jan Gassman - Co-Director
2013 : KARMA SHADUB - Ramòn Giger & Jan Gassman - Co-Director
2011 : OFF BEAT - Jan Gassman - Director
2007 : CHRIGU - Jan Gassman - Director
Jan Gassmann
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Michelle Gurevich
by Jan Gassmann
Jan Gassman is a director working on the borderline between fiction and documentary filmmaking.In 2004, he began his studies in documentary filmmaking at HFF Munich. His first feature film, Chrigu, was presented at the 57th Berlinale and was successful in theaters. He won a Bern and Zurich Cinema Award in 2008, as well as the Walo Prize in 2009. Jan Gassmann then directed his first fictional feature film, Off Beat, selected for the Panorama section of the 60th Berlinale, and co-directed the documentary Karma Shadub, winner of the International Jury Prize at the Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon. In 2015, he initiated the political and collective film Heimatland, presented in the international competition at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2016, his film Europe, she loves, about four couples on the outskirts of Europe, was chosen as the opening film of the Panorama Dokumente at the Berlinale. The film won several awards and was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize and the European Film Prize. In 2022, Gassmann directed 99 Moons, produced by Zodiac Pictures. This amour-fou made its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Acid section. The film was sold to more than 25 territories.
2024 : Paradises of Diane - Carmen Jaquier & Jan Gassman - Co-Director
2022 : 99 MOONS - Jan Gassman - Director
2016 : EUROPE, SHE LOVES - Jan Gassman - Director
2015 : HEIMATLAND (2015) - Carmen Jaquier & Jan Gassman - Co-Director
2013 : KARMA SHADUB - Ramòn Giger & Jan Gassman - Co-Director
2011 : OFF BEAT - Jan Gassman - Director
2007 : CHRIGU - Jan Gassman - Director