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- She was passionate at a young age to sports, exploring and scouring the most remote corners of the planet. An uncommon life, dedicated to the infatigable pursuit of the fundamental differences across the world.
- The journey of three young filmmakers seeking to discover and record the wildlife of the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, one of the most secluded and untouched places in the Amazon rainforest.
- The Swiss filmmaker Daniel Duqué is knocking door-to door, selling his own movies and unreleased ones. But what are the real stakes of this apparently harmless act ?
- This is a Special Version of the Lifestyle-Magazine "Flash".
- It's a documentary about 5 people changing their lifestyle drastically with the goal to reach health, happiness and being whole again. It's about their experience to heal themselves.
- Winning the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry turned Jacques Dubochet's life upside down and thrust him firmly into the limelight. Receiving attention from all sides the Swiss biophysicist wonders how to make best use of being centre-stage, which battles to fight and how to become a Nobel citizen?
- A couple, both in their late sixties, who travel through Europe in a caravan refurbished as a mobile nursing home room. Director Fanny Bräuning has devoted a deeply intimate film to her parents.
- Ski lifts with heated seats, a golf course, and an exclusive residential area - that is Andermatt's future. Over the course of seven years, the film chronicles the transformation of the Swiss alpine village into a luxury resort. The locals have mixed feelings about the impact on their home - yes, there may be a profit but at what cost?
- Where do we as humans find ourselves on the scale: are we nature's--our world's--protectors or its destroyers? In expansive film theater images we will enter the wild animals' cosmos. In one of the most beautiful landscapes in Europe--the German, Austrian, and Swiss Alps--we will pose this question to humanity on the basis of the condition of the forests, their owners, the wild animals, their hunters, and the farmers in the cycle of the seasons. And then we take a closer look at Canada, where we learn about the Alonquin Indian Nation Hunters and their relationship towards animals and nature.
- Football Inside enters the heart of football culture and uses the dressing room as the central stage. By putting on their jerseys, professionals, women, juniors and seniors take on different roles for the duration of a game. The joy of the game unites them all. The film shows the National League A women's team from GC Zurich, SC Kriens from the Challenge League, the C-juniors of FC Blue Stars Zurich and the veteran team of FC Wettswil-Bonstetten in the dressing room. A unity is created from single individuals. By putting on the football jersey, each and every one of them is given their task. Everyone faces the pressure of the game, but also their own fear. The film shows how teams come together, forget everyday life and become part of a greater unity through the ritual of football.
- « Allow the child time and space to live his childhood » is the motto of La Madeleine des enfants, a daycare nursery in downtown Geneva. Everyday, from 7am to 7pm, more than a hundred children are accompanied towards individual autonomy and collective life by a team of fifty professionals. The film is a year immersion behind these stone walls to explore how first steps in society are made, how this small world reflects and reacts to the one outside, how a whole institution struggles to allow children the space and time to live their childhood.
- They grew up in Switzerland, but were deported to her parents' homeland - Turkey - because of crimes. Now they live in a country that is not theirs.
- A Swiss couple takes a Syrian refugee family with five children into their home. People of different cultures and religions meet in Switzerland, which is characterized by prosperity and peace.
- Frédéric Swierczynski is one of the world'sleading cave divers; Sébastien Devrient a film director and mountain guide. Together they head for the Atacama Desertin Argentina, a unique scuba-diving expedition, alone andwithout back-up. Here the Ojos del Salado volcano is home to the world's highestlakes.
- Where are we heading? What's going on around us? A cinematic diary, personally rooted, with a political and social perspective as well, with the courage to be incomplete and partial, a film about this irritating simultaneity of inner and outer world, of daily routine and state of emergency. Zurich Diary interweaves in a poetic way thoughts, reflections, voices and tendencies, asks questions - a personal mirror image of this confusing, emotional, threatening yet also beautiful and extremely vivid time.
- Cedric is a farmer. Holding fast to his beliefs and at the risk of losing the means to support his family, he embarks on an experiment in more thought-out cereal growing and tries out intuitive and surprising methods, far removed from conventional agricultural practices. The film reveals the struggles of an obstinate and eternally optimistic farmer over a year of work.
- The 10-year-old Lorin shows us impressively open how he masters his everyday life since the diagnosis (type-1 diabetes) 3 years ago. The brave boy tells us about the depths he has experienced and his inner struggles until he made his own personal decision a few months ago. Lorin wants to live without fear and only look forward.
- For the past two decades Didi Contractor has been passionately implementing her architectural visions in North West of India, the Kangra Valley, at the foot hills of the Himalayas combining rural traditions with modern requirements. This poetic documentary introduces us to her creations - houses built from clay, bamboo, slate and river stone, constructed in tribute to their natural surroundings. At the age of 86, Didi Contractor pursues her vision working day and night - dreaming her designs then designing her dreams. She sketches roughly, then proportions with pinpoint accuracy, the blueprints for economically and ecologically sustainability.
- After the Nazi gold and the bank secret, the practices of commodities trading and extracting companies based in Switzerland will be the reason for the next defamation of the country. Large parts of the world trade in commodities are handled by companies based in Zug and Geneva. They are known to pay very little taxes and to defy responsibility for environmental damages caused in the extracting countries. TRADING PARADISE shows how this business works and how NGOs try to improve the transparency and liability of these commodities giants.
- The film relates with authenticity and sensitivity the crazy challenge of the navigator Yvan Bourgnon: to accomplish the first round of the world alone, on a sport catamaran without cockpit. 220 days at sea, 55'000 km covered, without the possibility of sheltering from the elements. Alone with his camera, he goes through a shipwreck, storms, pirates, doubt, cold, heat waves, but also countless moments of happiness, tenacity, fulfillment and success. An immersion in a long and difficult adventure that Yvan Bourgnon, like an artist, makes accessible, comfortable, almost poetic.
- Despite the conflicts posed by the stationing of U.S. military bases in Okinawa, the inhabitants of the island fight and strive for the survival of their singular indigenous identity. In his very personal documentary film, Swiss director Daniel López delivers an analysis of the difficult political situation and presents the fascinating culture of Okinawa in all its facets.
- It's election time. It's always Palmira who decides who'll be elected next mayor. This year she decides to elect her grandson, Peter, a clueless forty year old whose only skill is playing bowls.
- The river Rhône has been straitjacketed for 150 years, the history of a domination of its course by humans. But the river has not yet been tamed. Following some disastrous floods, a gigantic construction site is in the process of revitalizing it into a larger-sized space. This engaging and poetic film, shot in the company of inhabitants linked to the future of the Rhône, is a journey that prompts universal questioning of our relationship with nature and territory.
- With humor and tenderness, the adventure of a small group of handicapped children opening up to life and the world.
- The labour inspectors in the canton of Bern are on the hunt for workers that are illegally employed. Who are the victims and who are the villains?
- Toni Sommer (68) used to be the most popular and successful "Schwinger" of his time in Switzerland's traditional wrestling sport, but since the fatal accident of his opponent and best friend, he's been living anonymously and lonely in a suburb of Bern. His energy and his zest for life have left him, and the only friend he has is the grave of his former opponent. Hiro, a 10-year-old boy, disturbs Sommer's reclusiveness. He lives with his grandma one floor above Sommer's flat. Hiro is a short, thin boy who is a highly gifted student in school. However, Hiro wants only one thing - to become a great sumotori, a sumo wrestler. When his grandma dies unexpectedly, Hiro pleads the grumpy Sommer to take him to a sumo stall in his home country, Japan. Sommer is not interested, but he finally overcomes his initial resistance and accepts the deal. As soon as they arrive in Tokyo Sommer has to decide whether to engage in the boy's dream or to cancel the trip at an early stage, because he learns why the boy has chosen a Sumo school on an island in the far south of Japan - the boy's father used to be a student here and Hiro wants to follow in his footsteps. And so a journey starts from Tokyo across the country to a harbour city from where they will take the ferry to Amami Island. The film tells - in a humorous and touching way - the story about the struggle between the two unequal and different characters and how they finally become grandfather and grandson, developing a deep friendship.
- When Matteo dies, Anna leaves Berlin and her life as a jazz singer. When she finally comes back, she discovers Matteo is communicating with her through objects, letters, music sheets he has hidden for her before his death.
- Nathan was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Now he's better, before he was much worse. He films himself, his relatives at the hospital, his bipolar best friend, his father, his sister, his mother and his love between 2011 and 2018. For him, everyone is a "loulou", in his own way. It is thanks to them that he finally begins to become a man instead of a madman.
- Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for employment.
- Separated by the distance of the countries where they live, four young people are united by their desire to overcome obstacles to conquer their dreams and passions in search of a better life.
- As Eloïse gets ready for a first show at an art gallery, OCD gets in the way of her dreams.
- Every year, thousands of Tour de France fans gather along strategic points of the race route in hopes of catching a glimpse of the competition. Some will go down in posterity, caught in glimpses of the congested crowd by cameras chasing the action; others will manage to seize snapshots of the cyclists in a long-awaited moment that's over far too soon. This time, two Belgian documentary filmmakers hand the mic over to these Tour "regulars" who, in some cases, arrive with trailer-in-tow a week before the event to secure the best possible position. In this behind-the-scenes look at the most prestigious cycling race in the world, HOLY TOUR reveals the human side to a mega-sports event riddled with tenderness and humor.