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- When two friends collect money for the so-called "suffering in America" in the streets of Accra, is it for fun, political provocation, or a prophecy? Two Swiss filmmakers will answer these questions with the help of seven musicians from Ghana-M3NSA, Wanlov The Kubolor, Adomaa, Worlasi, Akan, Mutombo Da Poet, and Poetra Asantewa-who have written new songs and produced video clips especially for the documentary film Contradict. Tomorrow's ideas and trends are emerging more decentralized than ever in a globalized world. What do global developments and shifts in values look like from the ground up in Ghana and the African continent? How do we want to confront and contradict those changes? Can new visions for the future become global realities? Contradict shows this new generation of musicians taking on the post-colonial struggles of their parents and grandparents with new means and allies. They produce their work cheaply thanks to new software, and they spread their concerns rapidly over the Internet. In their music, they demand a new role for Africa in today's world, strengthen women's self-confidence, combat environmental pollution, and teach their peers self-acceptance, self-confidence, and self-esteem. They reflect on alternative lifestyles and new career paths and contradict the mainstream views of neighbors, ministers, and the omnipresent priests in the numerous mega churches in their country. In the collaboration with these Ghanaian artists, it becomes clear that anyone who wants to change something is walking a fine line between creativity, anger, exhaustion, and depression. Contradict thus becomes an urgent, fragile, and at times humorous appeal for change.
- In a godforsaken place called "Snot hole", on the edge of a quarry, a new life begins for four young refugee men. Having a long escape behind them, they try to get back on their feet. Above all, they are searching for contact with women, encounters, love and sex. They find themselves in a different culture and faced with unexpected conflicts. In the film, these young men trace their paths through this new reality and thus are confronted with themselves, their masculinity and their sexuality.
- Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie that takes him to Switzerland, Europe, and the U.S. On their travels in mobile homes, they explore the depths of the human psyche in search of answers to the question: What is the human mind and how does it behave in psychotic extreme situations? By the time Edgar Hagen meets the Buddhist monk and trained psychiatrist Edward Podvoll in the U.S., Podvoll has only a few more months to live. His vision - that courage and friendship have the power to make recovery from mental illness possible - is an inspiring legacy. In a dialogue between Western psychology and Eastern spirituality, a message of hope emerges: It is always possible to regain mental clarity no matter how severely confused a mind may have become.
- How to reconcile having a family and a career? Today what is a very real challenge for many working women has resulted in the birth of a lucrative market in cryopreservation, whereby eggs frozen before age 25 can be fertilised later. An expensive solution for which banks now offer loans.
- Jim, a young man drunk in a bar is accosted by Nick. This one has just been dropped by his prostitute who left the bar. Jim and Nick begin to discuss when Nick proposes to Jim a strange pill. This one accepts and falls in a very particular high.
- Does a woman necessarily need a man to have a child? And does he automatically become the father if conception occurs with his semen? Filmmaker Marina Belobrovaja has chosen a path that many women in a similar situation think about, but do not follow. In Our Child she explores the existing social ideas, role patterns and conventions surrounding parenthood and family, starting with the conception of her daughter with the help of a sperm donor.
- Documentary about the story behind the scandal video that brought down Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache in 2019.
- Film projectionists from all over Palestine explore the Holy City and go on a trip through the West bank to Jenin.
- The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the time of early modern period witch-hunts. It shows that the mindsets and behavioral patterns of both time periods are more alike than one might think.
- Five friends - Sloth, Pomeranian, Shark, Yoyo and Shrek - while away their nights in the big city. They talk about their past fortunes, finding parallels. Each of them claims to have the biggest problem, but how can one measure the magnitude of one problem in relation to another?
- 'if you only had one year left of your life, what would you do?' This question asks Swiss author Franz Hohler. His answer: 'Make death your adviser to live life to the fullest.' He is one of several carefully chosen Swiss citizens who give us an insight into their personal views on life and death. Besides these colorful, oftentimes funny quotes we meet Tom, a 50-year old male that has been diagnosed with incurable brain tumor. Contrary to what one would expect, Tom takes his sickness not as a burden but as a chance and lives his life happier than ever before. This to the surprise of his family and friends and above all - himself. The film encourages people to live life more consciously.
- Experimental documentary observing one year of incidents from the terrain's point of view.
- Looking for easy money, three young dropouts auction themselves on the Internet. One sells his future, one sells his past. The third sells his soul. What starts off as an unlikely trick turns into a nightmare when they discover they've sold their very existences.
- Welcome to "the prime of life". All his life, Rudy has worked hard for the firm, and for the family. But now, everything is about to change: Rudy retires. No alarm clock, no meetings, no travels to distant countries to set the pace. Shopping, cooking, gardening, and the daily routines of marital bliss will now fill his schedule. Rudy was actually looking forward to it, to the next phase. But as he soon realizes, "the prime of life" is a wild ride on an emotional rollercoaster. Retirement is not for cowards.
- 24 hours in the lives of five characters, none of whom fit into Geneva's postcard image as a city of privilege. Linked by two cops' night patrol, the audience meets different faces of immigration and social exclusion.
- Seiler visits the Italians he filmed in the movie 'Siamo italiani' after their return to live in Italy and documents how they feel now.
- After a period of dictatorial rule, an imaginary country finds itself in the middle of learning democracy. A., a fervent supporter of this new freedom, finds himself threatened with death by members of the old regime.
- More focused on the act committed than on the needs of those involved, penal justice has certain limitations. The film explores the difficult connection between victims trying to rebuild their lives and perpetrators disposed to taking responsibility. Restorative justice encourages the parties to manage their conflicts themselves, helping them to free themselves from their status. An intimate, emotional film in which the barriers between reality and fiction fade away.
- A father's search for forgiveness by revisiting the places, emotions and mistakes of the past, looking for reasons and hope for redemption. A tragedy of love told in the present, the past and the surreal.
- Beginning with her own poignant family history, the film's director traces our relationship to death and suicide.
- Life is a whole, even if we long fail to recognize it. This understanding eluded the psychologist Jacqueline von Kaenel her whole life. Upon suddenly learning of her imminent death, she begins to search for the key to her life. Unsparingly, she looks back and discovers how everything is connected; her privileged youth in Franco's Spain with her mother's feudal past in eastern Prussia, her desire for music with the one for a dominant and powerful husband. In her ambition to be a perfect mother, she recognizes her fight for identity. But all of a sudden experiences from her chiIdhood in a seemingIy happy famiIy crop up turning everything upside down.
- Amidst the chaos of their dead mother's apartment, two brothers irreverently piece together their family history. Compelling and darkly hilarious.
- For eight years, Rolando Colla follows three people who are trying to change their lives: a lonely shepherd retreated into the mountains of Sarajevo; a Cuban psychiatrist and hard rock fan attempting to break out of the system, and a Swiss single mother determined to emigrate. A long-term study of the way people wrestle endlessly with their dreams.
- Bruno Ganz is a true actor who after many films continues to work on the stage and in the sound studio (recording poetry and literature).
- A bewitching and moving portrait of a great artist living between dream and reality, truth and fiction and life and death.
- Life could be wonderful for Livia and Marco: they are good-looking, young, and the parents of Tim. He is nine months old and his high-pitched wailing is wearing their patience thinner by the night. And this when he was actually supposed to be repairing his parents' troubled relationship. Instead of sleep, or sleeping with each other, Livia and Marco now get up every night, get dressed, and climb into their rattling old Golf, the motor noise of which is the only thing that calms Tim. One night the inconceivable occurs. A petty criminal rocker and his date pinch the car - and with it the child. Tim may be able to sleep on in peace but his parents are racked by fear and anxiety. This is the start of a mad hunt through the night marked by screams, silence, high speeds, sharp braking and changes of direction. Will the day indeed bring about a new direction for Livia, Marco and Tim?
- Three French sisters have their lives interrupted and their relationship called into question when their father returns to visit 15 years after having abandoned them and their now-deceased mother. Each responds differently to his return according to how her character evolved from her relation with him and his unexpected departure. They eventually realize, though, that the somewhat elderly father is quickly losing his memory and his ability to function, and the youngest daughter's decision to accept him again while she can ends up permanently changing her family ties with her sisters.
- The creator attempts to uncover the dark secrets of her family's past and answer unanswered questions about her mother.
- A womanizer returns to his hometown and confesses his sins to an angry crowd.
- A filmmaker's investigation into the destruction of giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
- In every relationship someone is hiding something.
- When Eva Vitija came of age, her father gave her a feature-length film about her life. It infuriated her, because she had attempted to get away from his camera all her childhood. Her father, filmmaker Joschy Scheidegger, documented his family obsessively. It was only when he died that Eva was impelled to take over not only his extensive film archive, but also his camera. «My Life as a Film» is a personal search for the difficult yet healing truths hidden behind her father's pictures. Through her film Eva Vitija gives her past back that element of intimacy that her father's camera seems to have stolen from her, re-establishes the bond that tied her not only to him but also and above all to herself. A surprising and philosophical family story about filming and the attempt to capture life. A powerful debut film with unexpectedly universal appeal that doesn't shy away from portraying the small and big flaws that make us human.
- Pierre has four months left to live if he does not find a new liver. His only hope is a transplant from his brother, Paul. But Pierre hates Paul and has refused to see him for the past ten years. They are different in every aspect : their way of life, their tastes. Nevertheless, Marie, Pierre's fiancee, is determined to reconcile the two men. A love-hate relationship develops, disrupting the trio, recomposing the couples and even going so far as to change their personalities. After a few too many drinks and a bit of fooling around, the settling of scores between the two brothers will come to a surprising end.
- The Love Express dating agency is organizing a singles party on Lake Geneva. André and Anne-Charlotte, who officiate as masters of ceremonies, find the opportunity to take stock of their own romantic relationship.
- A compilation of animator Bill Plympton's classic shorts, including "Your Face", "How to Kiss", "One of Those Days", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking", "Plymptoons", "Nosehair" and "How to Make Love to a Woman". In between, an animated version of Bill answers questions about his life and career.
- «Grozny Blues» follows a few people around Grozny, the capital of war-torn Chechnya where daily life is defined by political repression, constricting customs, forced Islamification and the failure to come to terms with recent history. The film revolves around four women who have been fighting for human rights under worsening conditions for many years but get more and more disillusioned with the situation in Putin's Russia. The building where they work is also home to a Blues Club that is frequented by a group of young people. Having only vague memories of the Chechen wars in the 90s, they try to make sense of the strange things that are happening in their country. In linking the personal and intimate to the political, Nicola Bellucci shows in a dramatic and yet very poetic way what it means to live in a divided society that navigates a no-man's land between war and peace, repression and freedom, archaic traditions and modern life.