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- Ambassade questions the role of diplomatic relations and territorial representation. Through the prism of the American hostage crisis in Iran between 1979 and 1981, this film focuses on Switzerland's role as an intermediary in resolving this international conflict. Ambassade offers insights into the importance of the human being at the heart of major diplomatic mechanisms.
- A retired teacher accidentally receives four million francs in his bank account. Unexpectedly, he withdraws the money and flees on his moped. Two gangsters and an unlikely detective set out on his trail.
- They called him Frozen Angel. Martin Tino Schippert, the first Swiss president of the famous and infamous Hells Angels motorbike club, who was already a legend in his own life time. Nobody embodied the Swiss 68 dream of freedom and self-realization as perfectly as him. A dream that he eventually paid for with imprisonment and death.
- At CERN, an international commission of experts closely follows the FCC (Future Circular Collider) project, the colossal and possible successor to the current particle accelerator.
- The film recounts the struggle for truth and justice of three mothers of murdered young men and a non-commissioned officer who, at the risk of his life, denounced these abuses.
- At Le Marronnier, a swiss retirement home, the artist François Burland creates a giant engraving. With young migrants, among the residents. During the summer, they meet, tell each other, reveal each other. Alone together.
- In a small town on the Italian-speaking Swiss border, the hottest summer in recent years is the backdrop for the growth of Samuel, a 15-year-old teenager struggling with the most important period of his young life. Samuel is an introverted boy who has channeled his creativity and his need to communicate into drawing. He invented the character of Aline, a lively and determined girl, who solves cases that even the police can't unravel. He talks to her in a continuous ping pong between fantasy and reality. Determined to face up to a dilemma which torments him and prevents him from enjoying his age and his talent to the fullest, after being rejected in the first year of high school, Sam scrapes together his few savings and hires Drago, a former private investigator from the Balkans who escaped from the war, and who, with his girlfriend Morena, runs a local pub, the Black Dog. Together they embark on a daring adventure that will lead Samuel to come to terms with a deep hidden wound, and to discover the painful truth - tied to his family's past - that until today his father had kept hidden from him.
- The Great Journey is an intimate portrayal of a family's fortitude when confronted with illness and grief.
- MEL. THE OTHER LIFE The story of Mel is the story of a woman who lives a life outside bourgeois conventions. A filmed essay about the possibilities of survival in the underground, about a female struggle for self-assertion.
- The story of two best girlfriends and how love, sex, hate and unhealthy relationships slowly start to demolish them both mentally.
- The protagonists fight to get over their traumas while living in exile after leaving their native countries. They often feel trapped by fate and lose faith, but companionship and humor give them strength.
- Simi is an insecure and inexperienced eighteen-year-old virgin. His first sexual encounter turns into a nightmare and he suddenly finds himself in the middle of rallies on social media. Although he thinks that this was just a tense situation, he must learn that only yes really means yes.
- An extraordinary poetical meaningful journey that takes the public into the world and the work of the great master of the South American cinema, Fernando Birri. As Birri said, it's his "spiritual kino last will".
- English title: "Winna - Path of the Souls"
- Adrien is a cop. One night, during an intervention, a tragedy happens and he ends up nailed to a wheelchair. Because of this accident, his relationship with his wife, Barbara, seriously deteriorates. The couple is in a crisis. Hoping to work on their relationship, they take several days off in Adrien's father's cottage, a small place lost in the mountains. Adrian remains bitter, mentally destroyed by his physical condition. Barbara is frustrated and disappointed. She feels that Adrien has given up. A gang of poachers hunting nearby will exacerbate Barbara's feeling of helplessness.
- VALZEINA is a remote village in the heart of Europe, where the authorities bought an abandoned house and transformed it into a facility for rejected asylum seekers. Today one of four of the inhabitants of the community are foreigners in this «Paradise». The microcosm of a small mountain village illustrates the global issue how we, the privileged, are dealing with illegal immigrants. It shows through an unusual perspective the conflict between compassion and justice.
- Abstinence leads to suffering, falling off the wagon means death. Tinou must adhere to a strict regimen to qualify as a recipient of a new liver. Aschi is also suffering: from the lacklustre present, which seems to render his brilliant past all the more magnificent. But he retrieves the past in a letter from South Arica. Tinou knows that Aschi cannot manage the trip there without him, but his health is a top priory. During the operation he dreams that every wish life had ever deprived him of is fulfilled. He pre-empts the trip to Africa and dies in the arms of Miriam, the nurse anaesthetist. Now Aschi must complete the journey without Tinou.
- A Swiss farmer is on a mission: to invent the perfect French-fries vending machine. Ueli Maurer (70) from Zurich-Wallisellen has spent at least the last ten years to get this machine to work. Despite many setbacks he has never given up. Ueli Maurer is quite a character, charming and the slightly weird inventor-type. With five years of shooting - in Switzerland, Holland, Germany and in Dubai - this film is an intimate portrait of a man who dedicates all his energy, time and money to achieve the ultimate goal: to get his machine ready for the world market. 'Ueli Maurer's French Fry Machine' is about the energy one man can set free, driven by his will, passion endurance and an optimistic view of life.
- Markus is a mail clerk in Lausanne. He wants to live in a faster and easier way. Thanks to a chance encounter with an old school mate, he begins to deal with drugs and gets confronted with all the rough edges of the job: death, madness, ghosts.
- In April 1992, war broke out in Visegrad (in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina), separating Serbian and Bosnian pupils. 25 years later, the former head of the school and the widow of the school teacher attempt to reunite the classmates.
- Luc Hoffmann was a passionate ornithologist and scientist. He was the first to launch studies in the 50's to demonstrate the importance of wetlands. These rich habitats for biodiversity are also vital for the survival of humans on our planet.
- The Holycoaster is comedy/documentary about the good intended collaboration of a Swiss/Germand and Israeli Theatre Group to overcome history and prejudices, that failed miserably, but yet gained tremendous success.
- The film diary of a family, pieces of an Argentinian fiction film that wants to be completed, a tumor that dreams to be loved, two hunters looking for something to kill. The film glides between reality and fiction as the filmmaker tries to grasp the essence of his passing life.
- Bodybuilding - an unrecognised and maligned discipline, which in this film joins and separates two brothers, in an unexpected and moving meeting.
- How many rounds you do have to spin on the dance floor until all your dreams come true? Eugene, Gino, Christina and their friends are already past their prime. But that doesn't stop them to search for love and sex. They meet in Paris daily in dimly dance clubs where they express their desire for living a full life in togetherness through dancing. And if prince charming is reluctant to appear the well-heeled ladies spent some money for lessons with 'taxi boy' Michel. Michel dances with them for money - and behaves like a real gentleman. In search of love both - men and women - overcome nearly every obstacle, even if in many cases it doesn't bring them closer to their aim.
- The first time I ever stepped into the Courthouse in Paris, I was twenty. It was already a thousand-years old monument. 6999 doors, 3150 windows, 24 kilometers of corridors, according to the legend. I have been working there for over ten years. I was a court reporter. On the nights when I had to stay late awaiting for a verdict, I would step away from the lights and sink into darker and darker corridors. I would hear rumblings coming from deep down. I had the feeling that the House was alive and it appeared to be moving. It's impending removal hastens my return. I come back to the courthouse with no trial to follow. From its maze of passages and my encounters, from its lurking stories, the portrait of an abstraction emerges piece by piece : justice.
- In the Italian town Omegna an unusual industrial center was born in the twentieth century: the so-called "houseware district". The sister companies like Bialetti, Alessi and Piazza exploited the post-war economic boom and became known worldwide. Following economic crises, generational changes, globalisation, relocations, and the workers' struggles, the golden years ended drastically leaving an immense void not only in the abandoned establishments but also in the hearts of the local population.
- A journey through six different countries and characters into a world where chemistry is the ultimate response to human pursuits of well-being. From antidepressants to opioids pain or stimulant medication, the film questions our whole consumer society and the so called Eldorado of prescribed happiness.
- Somewhere in an undertemined time and place, Jasper, a solitary soul, wanders arournd his port town. He comes acrross a young woman, left for dead and dressed in an evening gown. He decides to take her home and look after her. Anaware that this encounter will change his life...
- Essay on the epic story of an ordinary man, a filmmaker, born in the beginning of the Second World War. From 1942 to 2016, his personal story and the world history, the history of his films, of cinema and the images that inspired him. Life and creation entangled, untangled, intertwined, jostled together. From his childhood to his first steps as an artist. From the distant war to the war against everyone, from the dreamed revolution to the consumer society that ruins your dreams like Coca Cola dissolves your bones.
- A French woman stranded in Switzerland during WWII had sought out her father, who had relocated to China, in 1975.She returns 45 years later to search for his other family still there and learn about their own historical suffering.
- Erwan and his friends rob a restaurant to finance the shooting of their film. Because Erwan is a violent psychopath, everything will go wrong and end up in bloody slaughter.
- A painter and writer, a humanist, a pedagogue, a committed citizen, marked by wars and persecutions, lover and mountebank, eyes and thoughts always on the alert, it is the discovery of a deeply endearing man, seismograph of his century and figure of our time, singularly actual. A message of hope, turned towards the future, dedicated to youth.
- The director throws miscellaneous and bizarre characters jumbled together on the screen in his grotesque. They walk through eight episodes and meet each other - or don't.
- Alex, a private detective who is also a drug addict, is forced by the police to join in the hunt for a gangster on the run.
- Le Film de Mon Père is my first film. The one my father always dreamt I would make. And perhaps, that's the issue.
- Luisa, a 40-year-old singer, and her companion Julien, a guitarist and composer, have had a group together for many years. One day, her father - whom she has not seen since she was a teenager - comes to see her after a concert. The encounter, during which he tells her he is seriously ill, unsettles Luisa. She begins to look differently at the life she leads.
- A group of sailors live on a tiny island in the Baltic sea, until their community falls apart. They return to the mainland, haunted by the eternal curse of paradise. A luminous documentary poem on the border between myth and reality.
- "NOT ME - A Journey with Not Vital" takes us on an intriguing foray into the eventful life and creative artistic expressions of contemporary Swiss artist Not Vital. This film essay sheds light on the work of the internationally renowned Grisons artist who for a long time remained the "well-known unknown" inside his home country. Director Pascal Hofmann traces the driving force of this restless cosmopolitan, and establishes a dialogue between the motifs in Vital's work, his childhood dreams, and the influences of his most important places of stay such as Beijing, Patagonia, Niger, "his" village of Sent in the Grisons, and New York. "NOT ME - A Journey with Not Vital" opens up idiosyncratic insights into Vital's perception of reality and its artistic transformation. From beginning to end, this film tells the author's enraptured exploration of the longings of an artist who came from the mountains.
- When death haunts a high school in a small town in the late 1990s, everyone is forever transformed. In this gentle, prismatic film, Samara returns to the town she fled as a teen to re-immerse herself in the memories still lurking there, in its spaces and within the dusty boxes of diaries, photos and VHS tapes. 1999 is not a ghost story, but the ghosts are palpable at every turn. The snow-covered streets, the school's hallways and lockers are preserved as in a dream. The absences left by the relentless teenage suicides still shimmer with questions, trauma and regret. Samara encounters people who are as breathtaking as they are heartbroken, and, finally, 16 years later, the community strengthens itself by sharing the long-silenced memories. Ultimately the film weaves together multiple voices in a collective essay on how grief is internalized-and how, as children, we so painfully learn to articulate our desire to stay alive.
- It's summer break, Emma and her father are rehashing a painful previous year but it's time to move on, Tom's return to the small town won't help make matters easier. Emma is only sixteen and has her whole life ahead of her.
- In a documentary journey that is as loving as it is relentless, father and filmmaker Kaleo La Belle accompanies his patchwork family in their attempt to find happiness across the ocean.
- A portrait of four young people from a small village in southern Spain, where modernity coexists with traditions whose origins are lost in the mists of time. A research on the relationship between the animal and the human.