Christina Schaffer

Películas

A Fleeting Encounter
Production Design
In the middle of a midlife crisis, Sacha leaves his girlfriend and moves into his grandparents' Airbnb. There he meets Marjan, a married Iranian woman. The involuntary encounter becomes a moment of new possibilities.
Mission Ulja Funk
Production Design
When Ulja (12) is prevented from pursuing her passion, astronomy, she decides to take matters into her own hands. With a stolen hearse and a 13-year-old classmate as a driver, she makes her way across Eastern Europe to watch the impact of an asteroid. In doing so, she not only has to shake off her persecutors, but also her pragmatic view of friendship and family.
Falmeniderit
Production Design
In 1921, Charles, a young Luxembourgish cartographer is sent to Albania as part of a border commission to gather information on the topography and the people of the region. The country has recently become independent, but it does not yet have clearly defined borders. Back in Paris, Charles gets to report to the Conference of Ambassadors. At first, he is overwhelmed by the impressive architecture and the intimidating grandeur of the event. However, he soon learns that the party of self-serving diplomats has little interest in the future of the people he has just met. With no representative of Albania even present, Charles feels the need to speak up for the young country. Despite breaking protocol in doing so, Charles shares an observation with the quarrelling diplomats that allows them to find a peaceful solution to the question of where to draw the urgently needed borders.
De Buttek
Production Design
Like every year, André, manager of a company named ALTER NATIVE that furnishes sanitary article, invites his seven employees to a quietly festive Christmas weekend. Yet, unlike the years before, André has bad news. He is terminally ill and wants to hand over his company to one of them. He will announce his successor in the course of the weekend. His collaborators immediately turn into competitors. When his own son, Philippe, whom nobody knew about, makes a sudden appearance, cards are redistributed, but suspicion quickly arises that André plays a deceptive game. While his employees, in a crazy race behind the back of the others, try to make their mark, Philippe tries to understand the obscure game his father is playing. And what role does the hotel owner play in all this? Jingle bells? Jingle bells!
Histoire(s) de femme(s)
Production Design
The documentary tells the story of the emancipation of women and women's movements through personal fates of different generations of women of the 20th and 21st centuries . In very personal conversations five younger women and five elderly ladies from Luxembourg , Germany and France tell about their dreams and hopes , their private and public struggles , disappointments and achievements ...
Barrage
Production Design
After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine’s mother Elisabeth. Alba is cold and distant with this stranger showing up unexpectedly in her life, so is Elisabeth, keen to keep her protégée to herself. One day, Catherine cannot take it anymore. She kidnaps Alba and takes her on a trip to a lake up North. Begins an unsettling journey into the puzzling world of motherly love, only to find out that sometimes the true opponent is yourself.
Night of a 1000 Hours
Production Design
When the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of his dead ancestors. In the course of a long night, during which there is a murder, an illicit love affair and a game with false identities, Philip uncovers a closely guarded family secret.
Brotherhood of Tears
Production Design
Gabriel Chevalier, 45 years old, is an ex-policeman. Unemployed, lonely and depressed,he lives like a ghost and hardly takes care of his only teenage child Juliette. One day, by pure chance, he finds a suspicious but extremely well paid job: his daily mission consists of delivering a briefcase exactly where he is told. The only rule being to never open it. These deliveries will bring him to meet weird people in strange places. Gradually, his cop instinct resurfaces...
Bella del Señor
Production Design
Adaptación en inglés de una novela de Albert Cohen que describe una tortuosa relación amorosa entre un alto funcionario de la Sociedad de Naciones y la esposa calvinista de uno de sus empleados. (FILMAFFINITY)
El tesoro de melusina
Production Design
¡Finalmente Verano! Jeff no puede esperar a que sus mejores amigos, Julia y Leo lleguen con sus padres al camping. Los tres pasan un tiempo muy unidos y provocan en Jeff un cambio de su vida monótona con su malhumorado padre sobreprotector. Dado que la madre de Jeff murió, los dos viven solos, a los pies de un antiguo castillo, que se vende a la misteriosa Duc de Barry. Pero no sólo la inminente llegada de los nuevos señores arremolina este año una cierta confusión en la vida de Jeff. La misteriosa leyenda de la maldición de Melusina, una hermosa sirena, los lleva a él y a sus amigos en busca de un tesoro escondido en una emocionante aventura.
Dust
Production Design
Elodie and Elias have been living by themselves ever since most of the human race has disappeared from the face of the earth. However, with the unexpected arrival of Gabriel, a boy a bit older than themselves, their harmonic relationship is about to come to an end.
X on a Map
Production Design
In a time when every continent that can be discovered has been discovered, Paul works as a cartographer who dreams of distant places. That is until he crosses Ana who folds maps for the same company. During a secret meeting he eventually discovers his own private America that cannot be found on any map of the world.
La différence, c'est que c'est pas pareil
Production Design
After several years in the United States, Sylvain heads back to France to attend his grandson’s christening. He wastes no time trying to catch up with his ex-wife and their children, but not everyone is pleased by his unexpected return...
Un plan brillante
Set Decoration
Londres, años sesenta. Laura Quinn (Demi Moore) trabaja en la London Diamond Corporation, la principal empresa de diamantes del mundo. Es una ejecutiva volcada en su trabajo, pero siente una enorme frustración al comprobar cómo su carrera se ve obstaculizada por el machismo dominante. En esas circunstancias, decide aliarse con el señor Hobbs (Michael Caine), un veterano y modesto empleadodel servicio de limpieza que le asegura que tiene un plan perfecto para dar un golpe espectacular que no dejará rastro alguno.
Your Name is Justine
Production Design
While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around Europe and work here and there to pay for their trip. Unfortunately, the boyfriend isn't as he seems and the young woman is sold as a prostitute when they cross over to Germany. We follow her ordeal as she tries to free herself and stay sane as time goes by and her captors try to break and condition her to a new life of servitude.
La joven de la perla
Art Direction
Delft, Holanda, 1665. La joven Griet entra a servir en casa de Johannes Vermeer que, consciente de la intuición de la joven para la luz y el color, irá introduciéndola poco a poco en el misterioso mundo de su pintura. Por otro lado, Maria Thins, la suegra de Vermeer, al ver que Griet se ha convertido en la musa del pintor, decide no inmiscuirse en su relación con la esperanza de que su yerno pinte más cuadros. Griet se enamora cada vez más de Vermeer, aunque no está segura de cuáles son los sentimientos del pintor hacia ella. Finalmente, el maquiavélico Van Ruijven, consciente del grado de intimidad de la pareja, se las ingenia para que Vermeer reciba el encargo de pintar a Griet sola. El resultado será una magnífica obra de arte, pero, ¿qué precio deberá pagar Griet?
Dog Soldiers
Art Direction
Una escuadrón de soldados británicos, de entrenamiento por los remotos páramos escoceses, encuentar a un capitán de las fuerzas especiales herido, y los restos de su equipo... Parece ser que unos sanguinarios hombres lobos merodean por esa región, y esa noche es luna llena.
Le Quatrième mur
Production Design
Sexual Healing
Production Design
A look at the last years of Marvin Gaye's life, from his parting ways with Motown and self-imposed exile to Europe, to his relationship with Freddy Cousaert, the promoter who guided the singer through the recording of his biggest-selling album, Midnight Love.