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- A young filmmaker's parents receive death threats in Egypt, at a time in which the country is plunged into a political chaos.
- Fifty reels of the earliest films showing Switzerland are discovered in a French film archive. They were shot around 1900 by the dazzling media pioneer, advertising tycoon and philanthropist François-Henri Lavanchy-Clarke. His story tells how moving pictures energized Switzerland and created a precursor of the cinema. And yet it also shows the waning of the Belle Époque, torn between belief in progress and decadence.
- The precipitous fall of an achiever and his inability to work: the psychiatric diagnosis reads «depressive exhaustion», the symptom commonly known as «burnout». But the time period after the major collapse often proves to be even more insidious, as is portrayed by Matthias N.'s story. In the course of his nearly two-year healing process, the former manager's fear of failing again in his profession triggers recurrences of new minor «burnouts». Will he ever find his way again in the working context?
- Five seamen on the Irish Sea, five men who have left their families to try to recover, far from any civilization, a primitive state...
- Seventeen 80-year-old people speak incredibly openly and honestly about their lives, their youth, their experiences and memories from their hometown, the old city of Bern.
- Arthur's life is far from being perfect. Out of work, he still lives with his old tyrannical mother. Luckily he's very imaginative and he often escapes into imaginary worlds in which he's a movie hero. But it's not always easy to tell the difference between what's real and what's not...
- Can an disease also offer a chance? A film between courage, despair and hope. About seven people, living with MS.
- Heinrich Danioth (1896-1953) is the most prominent artist from the canton of Uri and, at the same time, one of Switzerland's outstanding painters in the 20th century. Although most people know of the red devil he painted on the rock face of the legendary Schöllenen Gorge, the artist has remained relatively unknown to the public. Primarily based on Danioth's diaries and letters, the film portrays the life story of an artist lapsed into undeserved obscurity.
- Soraya feels like a girl, but anatomically she is a boy. Until recently, she went to school as Josué. Her coming out at the age of 13 is initially positive, but after just a few weeks she is met with increasing rejection. Soraya also experiences resistance at home. Her father hopes that his child might "change her mind" again. Soraya, on the other hand, fights for early hormone delivery and an early operation. Over a period of six years, a touching film was made which, beyond the individual fate, contributes to the debate about transidentity and homophobia.
- a young hyper connected couple trapped by the avatars of the consumer society.
- Schulden G.m.b.H. documents the world of professions such as bailiffs, private investigators, debt collectors, debt counselors and more. They change new forms of poverty into deposits, installment plans, interests and evictions.
- "Death and the Maiden" is a unique and powerful Film and Concert Movie featuring Bern's cultural icon Die Grosse Halle Reitschule as a unique urban backdrop. Poetic cinematography, stark scenography, subtle lighting as well as modern techniques of projection mapping create an atmosphere of transience and decay.
- A mayor wants to get rid of homeless people who blacken his Christmas.
- As the daughter of a former communist, the young director visits the interfaces of revolt, where communities attempt to realize utopia in concrete terms.
- Blues Road Movie traces the long epic of African American music and takes us on a journey to mythical places: from the banks of the Niger to New Orleans, going up the Mississippi through Memphis, to the skyscrapers of Chicago.The film ends with an unique encounter between African and American bluesmen. It shows that culture can overcome the worst barriers.
- When the ice melts in Thule, Tuvalu drowns in the ocean. A touching portrait of people whose joint fates are intimately linked though they live at two completely distant corners of the world.
- A winter spent in the heart of an emergency shelter where every night watchmen have the difficult task of "sorting the poor" due to lack of space.
- Laurence Deonna has put into words the evils of our societies and human beings too often forgotten by history, because what is not named or put into images does not exist, it becomes and remains invisible.
- The Making of a Dream is a cinematic essay on stories of dancers. It shows joys and pains from the first steps in an amateur school to the goal to become a principal dancer in a world known ballet company.
- A magical circus spectacle performed by former street kids from St. Petersburg, Russia and how growing up can bee hard as a rock.
- René, a children's theater performer, has a problem : he is a hearty eater and he weighs no less than 155 kilos. After being abandoned by his girlfriend, René decides to go on a diet, notably to reconquer her. It is also an opportunity for him to question his former lifestyle and to define new values...
- The life and work of stage designer Adolphe Appia.
- Beginning and end, farewell and reunion: for some it represents home, for others the start of an adventure. At train stations all over the world, people are setting off on their journeys while others return. Or wait. For the next connection, or perhaps for better times. Whether in Cairo or Zurich. Railway stations are like islands, suspended between space and time, cosmopolitan meeting points and crossroads. Mahatah - Side Stories from Main Stations delves into this universe where, almost unnoticed, people scrub stairs, make up train compositions, provide security, and sell tickets - or kebabs. Their names are Wala, Marina, Raimundo, and they work with dedication to keep alive a place that so many only register in passing. In the heat of Cairo, keeping calm helps, in Zurich, air conditioning or dancing. In both places, people are passionately living out their lives at the train station, their little cosmos. Encounters that fade into everyday life find space in Mahatah, the Arabic word for station. Episode by episode, the film consolidates into the collective rhythm of everyday life, uncovering stories from two countries whose shared poetry develops into universal human energy. Until the next reunion or the next goodbye, until the next train pulls into or out of the station, the world is united in Mahatah.
- Under the encouragement of the Chinese government, the traditional way of life of the nomads of the Mongolian plains change. Once a culture with a great emphasis on raising horses on the grassy plains, they are encouraged to move into the cities to work as industrial workers. However, one family tries to resist this change, trying to raise money to send their child to school by selling yogurt. Unfortunately, this is hardly sufficient and they are forced to sell their beloved horses.
- "Namibia Crossings" takes a trip through a country of archaic beauty and bizarre contradictions - like an echo on the polyphonic soul-landscapes made up of each individual's highs and lows.
- Four strangers take to the road on opposite sides the Pacific Ocean, each at a transformative moment in their lives. When they meet by chance, their understanding of family, friendship, and love change them forever.
- A young couple struggles to come to terms with a tragic event in their lives.
- Dreaming of a better life, migrants from the Northeast of Brazil speak about the city of São Paulo, and sing it in prose, songs, stories and multiple sounds.
- Everything that Lotti Latrous has created on the Ivory Coast of Africa in the last seven years has been based on a number of serious and difficult life decisions. Having lived a fulfilling family life, the mother of three children started critically questioning of her path, which raised to doubt the meaning of her affluent and luxurious life-style. In her quest to understanding, Lotti became to see herself as dependent on the social norms and demands of her society. However, having had everything and confirmed perfectly, she realized that her soul was not fulfilled. As she was working for Mother Theresa Hospice and accompanying the dying, she saw for the first time importance and richness of life. It was then that she realized how much she has to offer. Her decision to stay in Ivory Coast and to open an AIDS clinic there offered her an opportunity to explore what it meant to live freely. That was a choice that society could not easily understand because 'Madame Lotti' abandoned her family (including her nine year old daughter Sarah) in order to make home and give love to the sick and needing people in Adjouffou, one of the slums of Abidjan. Lotti Latrous calls herself the "biggest egoist of the world" because of the social judgement she was confronted with and moral conflicts in regard to her family that she was obliged to respond to. Today she knows that her decision was a good one. Her personal journey was incredibly meaningful for her and brought her the liberation she craved from an affluent life that carried little meaning for her. From having had everything, she gave up almost all; yet now she feels more fortune than ever. By loosening her family obligations and following her heart, Lotti created a new life for her and for the people around her, for which she is respected internationaly. Her incredible dedication to work, her enormous giving, and her will to fight against injustice has made her a role model for many who support her enthusiastically. Yet, all long, she simply does what she wants.