Virage Film, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen | SRG SSR 2023
«Sometimes, the best works of art are kind of about nothing… well… okay… not nothing cause there has to be something… but let’s say the seemingly mundane, the everyday. One of my favorite animation shorts is Skip Battaglia’s Crossing the Stream. It’s about a guy walking his horse across a body of water. That’s it, yet that’s all. There’s a similar vibe to Greylands, only this is set in mountainous landscapes in late fall/early winter as a father and son walk. Beautifully conceived, paced, drawn, and animated, Greylands is a meditative work about mortality that draws you in without you even realizing it.»
Animation World, Chris Robinson, Binocular Briefs, December 2023
«Feeling fundamentally local yet also universal, this film encapsulates so much of what is invigorating about short-form animation. The world felt both expansive and intimate, exploring two narratives with an elegance that gives the viewer space to experience their own grief alongside that of the characters. The atmosphere created through the sound design, sparseness of the linework and multiplane technique left us feeling assuredly held by the filmmakers.»
Jury-Laudatio for Best Swiss Fantoche, September 2023
Awards and Mentions:
Best Swiss Award, Fantoche 2023
Special Mention, Animatou 2023
Best Technical Contribution Award, Macao International Shorts Film Festival 2024
Best Newcomer Award, Dutch Mountain Film Festival 2024
Innerschweizer Filmpreis 2025
Die graue March (Greylands)
An animated short film by Charlotte Waltert & Alvaro Schoeck
Based on motifs by Meinrad Inglin
Directed by Charlotte Waltert & Alvaro Schoeck
Animation Charlotte Waltert
Screenplay Alvaro Schoeck
Music Bo Wiget
Sounddesign Johanna Wienert
Paint on Glass / Mixed Technique | 11 min. 49 sec.
Festivals Animafest Zagreb, 05–10 June 23, Zagreb, Croatia (World Premiere) / Concorto Film Festival, 19–26 August 23, Piacenza / Italy Imaginaria Festival, 21–26 August 23, Bari, Italy / Drama International Short Film Festival, 04–10 September 23, Drama, Greece / Fantoche Internationales Festival für Animationsfilm, 05 –10 September 23, Baden, Switzerland (Best Swiss Award) / Animasyros, 26 September–01 October 23, Syros, Greece / International Animation Festival AJAYU, 04 –08 October 23, Puno, Peru / Animatou, 05–14 October 23, Geneva, Switzerland (Special Mention) / Taichung International Animation Festival, 13–21 October 23, Taichung, Taiwan / Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF), 20–24 October 23, Bucheon, South Korea / CRAFT International Animation Festival (CRAFTanimfest), 23–28 October 23, Malang, East Java, Indonesia / LOBO FEST Festival Internacional de Filmes, 23–30 October 23, Brasília, Brazil / Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival, 24–28 October 23, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Animario, Madrid International Contemporary Animation Festival, 26–29 October 23, Madrid, Spain / El Gouna Film Festival, 27–02 November 23, El Gouna, Egypt / REX Animation Festival, 27–02 November 23, Stockholm, Sweden / TIAF Tbilisi International Animation Festival, 02–05 November 23, Tbilisi, Georgia / Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, 03–19 November 23, Chicago, USA / Beirut Shorts NDU International Film Festival, 21–24 November 23, Beirut, Lebanon / Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, 22–26 November 23, Flensburg, Germany / Animateka, 27 November–03 December 23, Ljubliana, Slovenia / Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Aguilar de Campoo, 01–09 December 23, Campo, Spain / Solothurner Filmtage, 17–24 January 24, Solothurn, Switzerland / Tricky Women / Tricky Realities, 06–10 March 24, Vienna, Austria / Imaxinaria Festival, 06–10 March 24, A Coruña, Spain / Macao International Shorts Film Festival, 23–30 March 24, Macau, China (Best Technical Contribution Award) /Akbank Short Film Festival, 25 March–04 April 24, Istanbul, Turkey / Filmfest Dresden, 16–21 April 24, Dresden, Germany / ITFS Stuttgart, 28 April 24 , Stuttgart, Germany / Bergwelten-Filmfestival Stans, 29 May–02 June 24, Stans, Switzerland / Zlín Film Festival International Film Festival for Children and Youth, 30 May–05 June 24, Zlín, Czech Republic / Festival du film d’animation de Savigny, 08 June 24, Savigny, Switzerland / Ouray International Film Festival, 20 June–23 June 24, Ouray, Colorado, USA / Aigio International Short Film Festival „Theodoros Angelopoulos“, 24 –30 June 24, Aigio, Greece / International Animation Festival Fest Anča, 25 June–30 June 24, Žilina, Slovakia Tabor Film Festival, 06–07 July 24, Desinić, Croatia / International Ethnographic Ukrainian-Bulgarian Film Festival OKO, 08–15 September 24, Bolhrad, Ukraine, 08–15 November 24, Sofia, Bulgaria / Chiaroscuro International Film Festival, 28 September 24, Bergamo, Italy / Animal Nature Future Film Festival, 27 September–05 October 24, London, UK / Curt’Arruda Film Festival, 09–13 October 24, Arruda dos Vinhos, Lisboa, Portugal / Festival du Premier Court-Métrage, 12–13 October 24, Pontault-Combault, France / Visioni Corte International Short Film Festival, 12–19 October 24, Gaeta, Italy / Dutch Mountain Film Festival, 05–09 November 24, Heerlen/Aachen, Netherlands/Germany (Best Newcomer Award) / ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival!, 06–11 November 24, Targu-Mures, Romania / Cartoon Club-Riminicomix 2025, 17Jul – 20 Jul 2025, Rimini, Italy / Nomination „Best sound design and music in short film“ European Animation Awards, Emile Awards 24
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