Film Music — Tarek Schmidt

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Damien grew up in Geneva, never knowing his father. At thirty-two, he suddenly learns that he is the direct heir of an Englishman living in Taiwan. Damien flies to Taipei where he meets his Taiwanese half-brother Steven. Their inheritance is suspended, on account of two other missing heirs. Damien and Steven set out to find them on the island. “Road’s End in Taiwan” premiered at the Solothurn Film Festival in January 2025.

Cast:
**Pierre-Antoine Dubey, Rhydian Vaughan, Elliot Malvezzi**

**Credits:**
directed by: **Maria** **Nicollier**
produced by: **Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), TaiwanPlus, REC Production**
casting: **Abba Tong**
production design: **Yin Chiao Liao**
cinematography: **Ludovic Matthey**
editing: **Kevin Schlosser**
sounddesign: **Laurent** **Jespersen**
music: **Tarek** **Schmidt**
music mix: **Jakob Schneider**

This feature length documentary plunges us into the imaginary world of witchcraft crimes.
It reveals the workings of an infernal judicial machine that led thousands of men, women and children to the stake. It premiered at the Solothurn Film Festival in January 2022.

Cast:
**Lionel Dorthe, Martine Ostorero, Fabienne Taric, Michel Porret, Kathrin Utz Tremp**

**Credits:**
directed by: **Maria** **Nicollier**
produced by: **Maria** **Nicollier**, **Cyril** **Dépraz**, **REC** **Production & Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)**
cinematography: **Patrick** **Mounoud**, **Philippe** **Calame**
editing: **Orsola** **Valenti**
animation: **Raphaël** **Haab**
sounddesign: **Laurent** **Jespersen**
music: **Tarek** **Schmidt**
music mix: **Jakob Schneider**

Hamama & Caluna Poster.jpg — *nominated for the Swiss Film Prize © 2018*
The two young friends Hamama and Caluna have left everything behind to flee their home country and ended up stranded in a camp in northern Italy. One day, they decide to cross the closed border into Switzerland under cover of darkness by going over the Alps.

**Credits:**
directed by: **Andreas Muggli**
sounddesign: **Andreas Muggli**
sound mix: **Beni Mosele**
music: **Tarek Schmidt**

Elephant in the Room Poster.jpg — Without understanding why, Irna senses that the relationship with her son Jago is becoming more and more hopeless.
She seeks refuge in her own world, whose centre is Elias, a rubber doll.
While Irna holds on to her own reality with all her might, Jago desperately tries to make his mother understand.

Cast:
**Doris Schefer**
**Johannes Hegemann**

**Credits:**
written & directed by: **Chanelle Eidenbenz**
producer: **Filippo Bonacci**
cinematograhpy: **Pascal Reinmann**
editing: **Florian Geisseler**
sounddesign: **Lotta Määki**
sound mix: **Gregg Skerman**
music: **Tarek Schmidt**

The ambitious dancer Jiara Becker runs away after she finds out, that her mother has passed a congenital heart-disease on to her without ever revealing it. After years of complete silence, beaten up and heavily in debt, Jiara returns home to her mother, where she has to decide whether she can forgive or wants to keep running away.

Cast:
Sima Bürgin
Gian Rupf
Jasmine Faye Friedrich

Credits:
directed, written & produced by: Serge Zehnder
cinematography: Manuel Haefele
editing: Carmen Walker, Florian Geisseler
sounddesign: Patrycja Pakiela
sound mix: Gregg Skerman
music: Tarek Schmidt
music recorded & mixed by: Max Molling

In a cold and icy world, a tough young huntress searches for food for her village,
when suddenly an orange sphere appears in the blue sky.

**Credits**:
directed & animated by: **Géraldine Camissar** & **Daniel Zinsstag**
producer: **Gerd Gockell**
compositing: **Lalita Brunner**
sounddesign: **Christof** **Steinmann**, **Leoni** **Dietrich** & **Befrin Özgür**
sound mix: **Christof Steinmann**
music: **Tarek Schmidt**
music mix: **Benjamin Gut**

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