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Like an Island

Like an Island

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 9, 2022

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Documentary, Fantasy

User Score

90%

Original Title

L'Îlot

Production Companies

Alva Film

Director

Tizian Büchi

Description

For mysterious reasons, two watchmen are made to guard access to the river in an area of Lausanne where retirees and immigrant families live. Through the different people they encounter, a territory takes shape and a friendship is born. Tizian Büchi creates a fable—part documentary, part fiction and tinged with magical realism—to subtly question our surveillance society.