Teen stories - 2002-2008

The seven teens from western Switzerland, who have been followed since their pre-adolescence, are now almost eighteen years old and faced with their coming of age! The freedom that goes with it and that they had so eagerly anticipated shortly before, appears to worry several of them. The responsibilities of adults, the army, and aspects of political life both scare and attract them. The choices and decisions take on full meaning and reality, and although they are still mischievous, they sound more serious. It’s stock-taking time. With their newly acquired, still fragile maturity they look back on the long years spent on sharing their views in this exceptional series.

Switzerland 2010 / / Type & running time Documentary film 98 min Format Video 16/9 Original version French Subtitled version English Directed by Béatrice Bakhti Written by Nasser Bakhti, Béatrice Bakhti Dramatical Structure Nasser Bakhti Camera Patrick Mounoud, Nicolas Deferrard, Ehud Goren, Laurent Egli Sound Bernard Seidler Additional sound crew Vincent Kappeler, Otto Cavadini, Benedetto Garo, Romeo Dos Santos Editing Béatrice Bakhti, Nasser Bakhti Music Nasser Bakhti Sound design Denis Séchaud Editing Sound Jérome Vottoz Consultant on Psychology of the adolescent Dr Gaston Goumaz Graphic design Cadratin Production Assistants Marion Chollet, Inès Abeya Assistant postproduction Julien Dumoulin Production Troubadour Films, Nasser Bakhti Coproduction Télévision Switzerland Romande une entreprise de la SRG SRR idée Switzerland Unité de Films Documentaires (TSR), Irène Challand, Gaspard Lamunière, SSR SRG idée suisse Alberto Chollet