Riverboom

In the year following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in the war zone of Afghanistan. Not entirely voluntarily, the self-confessed anti-militarist is dragged on a tour of the entire country by two fearless reporters – Serge, a moralist and workaholic journalist, and Paolo, a photographer as jovial as he is absent-minded. Equipped with a video camera he bought at a bazaar in Kabul, Claude follows them for two months on a daring journey. With impressive archival footage that was until recently presumed lost, Baechtold captures in this humorous road movie doc how he inadvertently becomes a war reporter and is able thereby to deal with his own personal strokes of fate.

Zurich Film Festival 2023
Locarno Film Festival 2024
FIPADOC 2024
Brussels International Film Festival 2024