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KLAUS PAS & LUC wALPOTH
BELGIUM/SwITzERLAND
CTRL ALT DEL
Tel: +41 786 145 402
E-mail: klaus@turbulencefilms.ch
Intention
With Ctrl-Alt-Del, we guide the audience through a
visual journey along the pathways of our consumption
habits. What if mothers nurtured warm feelings of love
for their mechanical children? What if we could get out
of a relationship simply by terminating our partner’s
existence? What would we be left with if we lost all
form of compassion for humankind and only saw it as
an expendable by-product of our society?
Combining the emotional impact of a family drama
with the action-driven narratives of the sci-fi genre
allows us to explore the abyssal needs awoken in a
mother by the loss of her child. Obsessed by an in-
ability to conceive, which is further exacerbated by her
purposeless programming as the perfect wife, Amy will
confront the system that made her and prove herself
more human that those surrounding her.
Through our characters’ individual stories, we interrogate
ourselves on how we fight to find a purpose in life
when hope seems gone. Exploring Amy’s existential
need to give life, Christopher’s pathetic attempt to live
the illusion of a family, and Sophie’s simple urge to
survive, we paint a grim reality that is not so far from
ours. A reality where again, hope lies in the younger
generation.
“When humanity
turns functional, the
heart of machines
beats louder.”
Synopsis
In 2061, following a virus that decimated half of the
world’s population, humans are compelled to take a
daily vaccine making them sterile. To cope with their
incapacity to give life, couples buy young androids
who grow up with them.
Ctrl-Alt-Del is a twenty-minute science fiction family
drama telling the story of Amy, a loving mother forced
to terminate her only daughter, a dysfunctional 13year-old
android. Deeply affected by this emotional
void, she loses track of the reality she lives in. Her
husband Christopher desperately tries to comfort her
but Amy’s craving for motherhood pushes her to take
in Sophie, a wandering, flesh and bone gutter kid.
When Chris finds out, a violent clash follows, forcing
Amy to choose between the child and her husband.
Her choice leads her to discover that like her daughter,
she is herself nothing more than a companion object,
another android that will soon be disconnected and
replaced.
PRODUCTION FACTS
Estimated Budget: 220.000 €
Interest from Swiss production company.
Looking for more partners.
Director Biography
Born in Zurich in 1981, Luc Walpoth grew
up in Bern, studied law in Lausanne and
film directing in Paris. He works as a director,
producer and cinematographer
in France, Italy and Switzerland, accumulating
award-winning short films, international
commercials and feature film
experience, which led him to co-found
Turbulence Films with Klaus Pas in 2009.
Scriptwriter Biography
After a career in finance, and a Master in
film directing in Paris, Klaus worked as a
producer, writer and director for both documentary
and fiction. Ctrl-Alt-Del is the
second film co-written by Luc and Klaus,
after their 2010 success Invisible Trajectories,
which premiered in Clermont Ferrand’s
international competition, and went
on to win six awards.
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