Silvesterchlausen

Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson · 2025

Every New Year in Appenzell, groups of six costumed men spend 18-hour days yodeling and clanging bells in a centuries-old ritual whose origins no one knows.

A hypnotic, wordless immersion in one of Europe's most mysterious living folk traditions.

Silvesterchlausen is a mysterious tradition that takes place every New Year in Switzerland’s Appenzell. Groups of six men dress in ornate costumes and engage in wordless, polyphonic yodeling and rhythmic bell clanging. T

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