Alice Fargier is French-Swiss. After a hypokhâgne and a khâgne, she enrolled in film studies at Paris 8 and obtained a master’s degree in film directing. She first became a radio journalist for France Culture and a critic for the film press. In 2014, Le Mur et l’Eau, her first short documentary, was selected for a number of international festivals (Visions du réel, Karlovy Vary, MIFF, IDFA, etc.), won several awards and was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2016 Swiss Film Prize. In 2017, Kâbus, shot in Istanbul, was presented at the FID Marseille. Retour au pays des merveilles (Return to Wonderland) received a special mention from the jury at the VIS Vienna short film festival in 2019. Le Temps d’une nuit premiered at the Clermont Ferrand short film festival in 2021 and won 2 international jury awards. She is currently developing her first feature film.
Short film
Writer-Director
- LE MUR ET L’EAU (2024) | Short Documentary with Luc Dardenne and Bradley Lebouil / Elefant Films – 4 festival awards / 1 nominationBest Short Film PRIX DU CINÉMA SUISSE, Best Short Documentary, DOCLA, LOS ANGELES, USA, Grand Prix Du Grand Jury 11th European Education Festival, Grand Prix du Jury Festival International Partie(s) de Campagne, Prix Spécial du Jury, Festival International Nancy Lorraine Visions du réel, Switzerland, Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers, France, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, DOC NYC, USA, MIFF Melbourne, Australia, IDFA, Netherlands, Festival International de Sao Paulo, Brazil, FIDOCS, Chile, etc…
- LE TEMPS D’UNE NUIT (2021) | Short fiction – 2 Jury Prizes / La belle affaire productions / Tipimages productionsStudent Jury Prize at the Festival du film francophone de Vienne, Austria, 2022; Jury Prize at the Queer Stories International LGBTQ Film Festival, India; National Competition at the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, 2021; International Competition, International Short film Festival, Thessalonica, Greece; Official Competition at the Festival Européen de Lille; Official Competition at the Festival Chéries Chéris, Paris; National Competition at the 57th Journées de Soleure, Switzerland; International Competition, KineNova Film Festival in Skopje, Macedonia; International Competition, Pittsburgh Reel Q LGBTQ+ Film Festival, USA; International Competition Slemani IFF, Iraq; International Competition Out&Loud Pune International Queer Festival, India; Competition at Les Capucines du Cinéma Français, Paris; Francophone Competition at Parties de campagne; Programmed at La Fête du court-métrage du court-métrage from 16 to 22 March 2022; Broadcast on RTS from 29 November to 6 December 2022; Broadcast on Canal + April 2023.
- RETOUR AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES (2019) | Piano Sano Films – 2 Special Jury MentionsSpecial Mention at VIS, Vienna Shorts, International Competition, Austria; Special Mention at Spektrum Film Festival, International Competition, Poland; Documentary Competition at Festival Partie(s) de Campagne;Cheap Cuts International Films Festival, International Competition, England; Festival Les instants numériques et poétiques, Marseille, France
- LA VISITE (au Palais de la Découverte) (2018) | Creative documentary / Sanosi productions, COLLECTION ‘LA VISITE’ TV5 MONDE – Forthcoming theatrical release
- KÂBUS (2017) | Short film essay with Erdem Gündüz – Bathysphère productions – 1 special jury mentionSpecial jury mention: Short Waves International Competition, Poland; Un Festival, c’est top court ! France; Festival Ciné-poème, France; Festival des rencontres documentaires de Lorraine, France; Festival d’Art Vidéo de Casablanca, Morocco; FIFF Fribourg, Switzerland; FECI Bogota, Colombia; Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, USA; Les instants vidéos numériques et poétiques, France; FID Marseille, France.
