Antoine Russbach

Of Swiss and South African origin, Geneva-born Antoine Russbach studied screenwriting and filmmaking in Belgium at the IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion de Louvain-La-Neuve). In 2008, he co-directed Michel with Emmanuel Marre. The film won numerous awards and was selected for many festivals. In 2009, he directed his graduation film Les bons garçons. He then worked as a screenwriter in Belgium before returning to Switzerland in 2014 to write and direct his first feature film Those who work, shot in autumn 2018. The film premiered at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival and won the awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay at the 2019 Swiss Film Awards. It was widely distributed in France and was well received by audiences and critics alike.

Those who fight

LIM | Less is More 2022

Diane is a young woman looking for a cause worth fighting for. The police don’t hire former victims, and her first MMA fight is more like a beating than a fight. So she goes out and parties. She spends money she doesn’t have pretending her life is worth more than it is. Whenever the fridge is empty, she takes a job as a bodyguard protecting the wives of billionaires from all over. She becomes their daughter, their sister, their friend, protecting them from non-existent threats while they spend years of Diane’s salary in a matter of moments. Nora is one of them. She is not like the other girls from the Emirates that Diane has protected. Her style and ideas are modern and visionary. At a party, she kisses Diane, causing her to forget the void she feels – at least until dawn. How could Nora be interested in someone like her? Nora must marry a man from her own country. So Diane stages an attack on her. To save her, to stay close to her… despite the consequences.