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- An outwardly normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations that put the very nature of her existence into question.
- After watching a documentary about black widow spiders, Ella spots a connection between the cannibalistic spider species, that eats the male after mating, and a mysterious woman, whom her father has invited to a date that evening.
- Two DJ's in Tehran are battling to play the music they love and set up dance parties. Local regime does not look well at harbingers of western culture of decay so the protagonists need to do big decisions.
- The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have swapped bodies. Lucie wants to abort an unplanned pregnancy, while Pierre longs for the experience of motherhood.
- Former telenovela star Pippa is in her forties and struggling to reestablish herself as an actress. Chasing after her dreams, she hurries from one audition to another, constantly being confronted with the role of the mother. After an unexpected meeting with her estranged daughter Luna, the role Pippa has been denying suddenly becomes her reality.
- Kosovo, 1998: When Dunja, a young Serbian woman, finds out that she's pregnant she decides to run away to her aunt in Switzerland.
- A young girl faces the loss of her father as she's trying to find reason in his suicide.
- On a hot summer day four groups sweat without realizing that the world is slowly ending.
- When Jessy tells David she's pregnant, his fears of inadequacy as a man take hold. Frantic, he resorts to steroids. Within a short time, David becomes a threat to Jessy and the unborn child.
- In 2014, the Winter Paralympic Games took place at the same time as the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Following five Ukrainian athletes forced to adapt their personal and professional lives to the ongoing armed conflict, Pushing Boundaries is a pertinent reflection on the capacities of humans to push the boundaries between two countries, and those of their own body.
- The sun shines every day in Chagrin Valley, USA. Frozen in a 1950s-inspired artificial decor, this assisted living facility for people who suffer from dementia is home to fragile and ageing residents. Here, everyday life drags on slowly. Florence and her companions dream of an elusive elsewhere during their days punctuated by confusion, fleeting conflicts and overdue family visits. The caregivers - as kind as they are exhausted - run the show in this pastel-coloured, sanitised social theatre. Between two shifts, they confess their desire for a better future; one that is not so different from that of the residents, after all. The Swiss documentary maker Nathalie Berger, a Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) graduate, casts a tender and curious look over her protagonists. Examining our relationship with old age, illness and the universal fear of dying, and gently probing into the matter of our individual and collective dreams, she interrogates the false promises of our contemporary society.
- Young wannabe novelist Dominique Piepermann sets out with a lively kebab vendor through a forgotten valley in the Swiss Alps where she comes face to face with love, loss and a Fiat Panda obsessed pimp.
- At a party teeming with young artists and bon vivants, the everyday, and yet the extraordinary, is happening. On their quest to experience love and life, they talk carelessly, risking everything, and dance on in the neon lights of the night... all together, and each by themselves.
- Ma Na Sapna tells the story of several women in India, dreaming of a better future for themselves and for their families through surrogacy.
- Shannet Clemmings, a Black Transgender woman from Jamaica, shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by prejudice and discrimination as she wanders through the empty streets of a European city.
- Personal choices lead to difficult decisions.
- Late summer heats up the city where people search for their own form of love.
- Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for employment.
- Teenage girl Sadie runs away with a much older man on a motorcycle. Between friendship and love, attraction, and misunderstanding, they develop an emotional connection.
- Maximilian loves daydreaming and escaping into his own imaginary world where he embarks on a journey atop his cloud to the moon. However, the adventure is being threatened by his overambitious mother.
- In the midst of the vibrant medina of Marrakech, Samir longs for love and a better future. But his summer flirtations always end at the airport and he is left behind in a country with limited opportunities. When Samir really falls in love, he is faced with the decision of his life: should he listen to his sister and enter into a traditional marriage in Morocco or follow love and the dream of a better future in Europe?
- Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd. He will once again show off his skills at a local talent show. The winner will get the heart of the lower middle class, as well as a generous prize money.
- In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love, but in just one night he gets dumped by all the girls. Sven's journey for emotional shelter becomes a comical odyssey between self-pity and self-discovery.
- The story of Michael and his friends Mani and Dani. All three of them are patients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out! The lively interplay between the characters sets the scene and provides insight into the manic-depressive protagonist's inner world. A serious topic, portrayed in an entertaining and direct manner.
- Jeanne, a young chef, has made it to a renowned star restaurant. With iron discipline she tries to convince her chef of her talent but fights against a merciless pecking order until she has to decide how far she wants to go for her career.
- The gray rock of Mount Flimserstein. The luminous rectangle of a screen in an old Paris cinema. The glittering skyscrapers of Tokyo. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» is a cinematic journey comprising a rich array of images and memories marking an outstanding career. The first feature-length film by Pascal Hofmann and Benny Jaberg documents the eventful life and cineastic legacy of an exceptional Swiss director of both films and operas. It spans his formative childhood in a Belle Epoque hotel in the Grisons mountains, and follows his escape from the peaceful Alps to turbulent 1960s Berlin, his love for the cinema, and his encounters with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It delves into the worldly nightlife of 1970s Paris, and shows Schmid filming on location in Morocco, Portugal, and his native Grisons. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» traces the eventful life of a gifted artist. It is a film about arriving, time and again, and about taking leave, for ever. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» lets us hear several of his loyal companions comment on this exceptional artist, among others his muse Ingrid Caven, his cameraman Renato Berta, and close friends like director Werner Schroeter, actress Bulle Ogier, and film scholar Shiguéhiko Hasumi. And we hear Daniel Schmid himself - in a cinematic exploration of his life and work carried by his own voice and view of the world. A world situated between reality and fiction.
- Irna seeks refuge in her own world with Elias, a rubber doll.
- In the Twenties a young and solitary alchemist dedicates his existence to collecting and experimenting with botanical species... and nymphs. But something is still missing in this collection, something that could even destroy it.
- The film tells of a tragic story that took place in an abandoned cellulose factory. With the help of his two best friends, we get to know who David was, the hole he left behind and we are taken on a journey through one of the biggest industrial facilities in Switzerland.
- A young woman is invited to celebrate her birthday with her alcoholic mother. Trying to maintain harmony, the two stumble through a night of bliss and disaster.
- Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. Therefore he isolates himself from the outer world. One day, when Lothar breaks his beloved toaster, he faces a dilemma.
- Two siblings in a war, try to escape the brutal reality by making up a comic world.
- A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She's driven by something. She's scared. She hits something with her car. She flees, not knowing from what. She's driven by fear.
- What happens to the human body after death? What does the place where a corpse has been found look like and what is there to do there? What do the things we find there tell us about the connections between human beings? Sven Grossmann cleans the places where bodies are found and confronts these questions as he removes the final traces.
- Bruno has a monotonous everyday life as a factory worker who suddenly gets out of line when his son appears in the factory to work there.
- "Theatre for me is really living inside a play." Now the actor becomes his own audience and answers his own questions. Two roles that he has taken on act as a mirror: Kasimir from "Kasimir und Karoline" and Hofmarschall von Kalb from "Kabale und Liebe." "Why does Mr Andreas Storm act?"
- In this mazy filmplay Joggeli tries screening old film spools which leads to a nostalgic journey in the traces of his great-grandfather that bears astonishing resemblance to film history and a well-known black-and-white-comedian.
- A journey through the abstract situation of a practice of the voluntary fire brigade. It is a poetic, sensuous short film about the construction of reality and the pursuit of meaning and believe.