Mouths Les Bouches
by Valentin Merz
En Compétition 2024
Official synopsis
Two barrel organ players roam the streets of Juárez, a district of Mexico City. They play their music and ask passers-by for money, while a couple of tourists from Paris set up an insurance fraud...
Biography and Filmography
Valentin Merz was born in Zurich, where his mother migrated to from Istanbul. He worked in Mexico City, as a typographer, and in Berlin for five years in cinema and theatre. In 2014, he then made film studies at the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva. His short films have screened at festivals around the world. BRÜDER – EIN FAMILIENFILM, premiered at Visions du Réel 2020. DE NOCHE LOS GATOS SON PARDOS is his feature debut, which premiered in 2022 in Locarno, where it won a Special Mention for Best First Feature. Since then, it screened at international festivals, including Rotterdam, Thessaloniki, Sevilla, São Paulo and the Berlin Critics’Week. He has just completed his latest short film LES BOUCHES.
2024 : Les Bouches (SHORT - Valentin Merz - Director
2023 : Xquipi / Ombligo (SHORT) - Valentin Merz - Director
2022 : De noche los gatos son perdos - Valentin Merz - Director
2020 : Brüder – Ein Familienfilm (SHORT) - Valentin Merz - Director
2019 : Rêver comme lui (SHORT) - Valentin Merz - Director
by Valentin Merz
Valentin Merz was born in Zurich, where his mother migrated to from Istanbul. He worked in Mexico City, as a typographer, and in Berlin for five years in cinema and theatre. In 2014, he then made film studies at the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva. His short films have screened at festivals around the world. BRÜDER – EIN FAMILIENFILM, premiered at Visions du Réel 2020. DE NOCHE LOS GATOS SON PARDOS is his feature debut, which premiered in 2022 in Locarno, where it won a Special Mention for Best First Feature. Since then, it screened at international festivals, including Rotterdam, Thessaloniki, Sevilla, São Paulo and the Berlin Critics’Week. He has just completed his latest short film LES BOUCHES.
2024 : Les Bouches (SHORT - Valentin Merz - Director
2023 : Xquipi / Ombligo (SHORT) - Valentin Merz - Director
2022 : De noche los gatos son perdos - Valentin Merz - Director
2020 : Brüder – Ein Familienfilm (SHORT) - Valentin Merz - Director
2019 : Rêver comme lui (SHORT) - Valentin Merz - Director