Brunaupark

BRUNAUPARK opens in a Zurich housing estate with five residential blocks, 405 apartments and around 800 residents, all living under the threat of demolition. The Credit Suisse pension fund plans to replace the site with a new development, and 239 households receive eviction notices, turning everyday life into a prolonged state of uncertainty. Over the course of three years, Felix Hergert and Dominik Zietlow observe a community in transition. Some residents move away, others challenge the evictions and gain temporary extensions, while new tenants arrive to occupy the increasingly fragmented estate. Empty apartments, temporary uses and changing forms of housing create a space suspended between past and future. The documentary pays close attention to both the language of urban redevelopment and the lived realities behind it. Administrative promises of modernization and efficiency stand in contrast to experiences of displacement, rising rents and the gradual erosion of social ties. At the same time, the film captures the everyday routines and relationships that continue to hold the community together. BRUNAUPARK becomes both a local chronicle and a broader portrait of urban transformation driven by economic interests. Without forcing conclusions, the film observes resistance, uncertainty and the fragile persistence of belonging in a neighbourhood facing profound change.