Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Merry Christmas Felix!

Izabela Rieben Sami Ben Youssef 2004 Switzerland Animation color 6min 35mm
Some grown-ups irresponsibly ruin children's fantasies rather than encouraging them. This jocular short film is based on a feeling of wanting to retaliate against those grown-ups. However, the subject of revenge needs justification so that the revenge can be moral. In that sense, their parents become a sacrificial offering for revenge. Be mindful that you can be trapped in a prison built of revenge if you stick to don't learn to let go!

Director

Izabela Rieben

Izabela Rieben was born in Switzerland in 1975 and studied economics and animation at the University of New York. She is working as a programmer at the Swiss Television in Geneva. Merry Christmas Felix! is her first film.

Sami Ben Youssef

Born in Switzerland in 1973, Sami Ben Youssef finished his studies in photography at the National College of Photography in Pretoria, South Africa. He is working at the Cultural Department in Geneva. Merry Christmas Felix! is his first film.

Izabela Rieben
Sami Ben Youssef

Producer: Izabela Rieben
Screenwriter: Izabela Rieben
Cinematography: Sami Ben Youssef
Editor: Free News
Music: Water Lili, Pol Eze
Sound: François Wolf