THOSE WHO ARE FINE

Synopsis

Using her skills of selling internet and insurance deals, young call center employee Alice calls up elderly strangers and pretends to be their granddaughter in urgent need of money. As this trick quickly makes her rich, the film observes people and places in Zurich, all mysteriously connected to Alice’s business.

Biography

Born in Zurich in 1984, Cyril Schäublin, descendant of a watchmaker family, left Switzerland in 2004 to live in Beijing, China. In 2006 he moved back to Europe to study cinema in Paris and Berlin, where he graduated at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin in 2012. His first feature film, THOSE WHO ARE FINE, premiered in Locarno and Rotterdam. The film was invited to New Directors / New Films at the MoMA in New York City and won the price for best international feature film at the 72nd Edinburgh International Film Festival. He lives and works in Zurich.