Winner of the Encounters Award for Best Director at the Berlinale 2022,
director Cyril Schäublin's sophomore feature Unrest is set in
19th century Switzerland where a young watchmaker finds herself wrapped up
in the growing anarchist movement.
The film stars Clara Gostynski and Alexei Evstratov.
Check out the trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labour, she gets involved with the local movement of the anarchist watchmakers, where she meets Russian traveller Pyotr Kropotkin.