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- 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.
- 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.
- As Eloïse gets ready for a first show at an art gallery, OCD gets in the way of her dreams.
- Bratsch, located in the Leuker Mountains, is a village in the upper Valais with a magnificent view of the Rhone valley. Just a hundred people lived in the village in 2015. After the municipality merged with Gampel down in the valley in 2009, the school building was empty. The film documents the development and changes in the village since the school reopened in autumn 2016 to the present day.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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 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?
- 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.
- A tragic yet humorous depiction of several miners as they search for a new self-image, set against the background of our epoch's social transformations.
- 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.
- There were many who smiled about PRINCE CHARLES becoming a 'green' Prince. Quite a few of them thought that his ideas were just crazy. Together with DAVID WILSON, the farm manager, the Prince developed several strategies to increase the vitality of the soil and to promote biodiversity. The film features the inspiring Prince Charles and the dedicated farmer Wilson, who both share a common vision and mission: organic farming.
- 13 year old Colombine, runs away from home and from a conflictual relationship with her mother to look for a father she has never met. Her quest takes her to travel through time and she finds herself thrown into the middle of a gigantic live-show, the Fête des Vignerons... Dazzled by surreal surroundings and stuck in a strange adult world, she can only rely on her wits and her heart to find her way.
- Four chaotic sisters have to save a dancing penguin from evil magicians who want to use him for their comeback show in Las Vegas.
- Hundreds and thousand of Indian men and women - indigenous inhabitants and landless farmers - demand their right to existence by making a 400 kilometers protest march.
- A documentary about three girls ages 6 to 11 who grow up in a world of intense competition to become professional dancers, but are friends and try to support each other.
- Marianne and Günter have been married for fifty years. Their passionate love has shriveled to a woeful routine. Therefore both of them decide to take an experimental pill that will reactivate memories of their happy past.
- Two happy families, a quiet beach and a house above the Sea. It could be so perfect. But when teenager Finn has a breakdown it brings turmoil not only to the friendship between the families but also to the relationship between his parents.
- With humor and tenderness, the adventure of a small group of handicapped children opening up to life and the world.
- Be part of science and adventure together and follow a young paleo-climatologist from the United Kingdom, Dr. Gina Moseley, on a mission to unlock the secrets of the Earth's climate in the most unlikely of places: caves.
- Animal tamers from various continents shine in the spotlight and struggle for their existence behind the scenes. Between toiling and smiling, the female circus artists disclose their passion for their 'wild' animals and extraordinary profession: a daily life full of dedication and discipline in the midst of mortal danger.
- 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?
- Billie, a eleven year old child is well on her way following her mother's footsteps Who explored space as an astronaut.
- With wolves now firmly established in France, Jean-Michel Bertrand discusses the issue of peaceful cohabitation between them and humans.
- Stephan Eicher and many folk musicians are connected by their Yenish roots and the secret of a special sound. A musical journey into the Grison mountains.
- In the Swedish documentary, The Borneo Case documentary filmmakers Erik Pauser and Dylan Williams spend five years intimately following the trail of an unlikely group of activists whose aim is to investigate how profits from the illegal logging that has annihilated more than 90% of the Malaysian Borneo Rainforest have been money laundered into property portfolios all around the world. The group, made up of an exiled tribesman, a historian, an investigative journalist and a flamboyant DJ overcome death threats and intimidation in their efforts to unravel on what has been dubbed "the Greatest Environmental Crime in History" (ex British Prime Minister Gordon Brown). One of the weapons of the group is to start Radio Free Sarawak - a pirate radio station. Suddenly in a country were the government keeps a tight control of media, people get news and for the first time get information on what's going on. This film starts in Montreal where former activist Mutang Urud lives in exile. After enduring torture and imprisonment for his role in attempting to stop the illegal logging of his people's lands, the Kelabit tribesman was forced to flee more than 20 years ago. However when he hears a podcast from an illegal radio station - Radio Free Sarawak - of plans to build 12 New Hydropower Dams - one of which will completely drown the valley of his birth, He is compelled to travel home. Simultaneously, from its secret location in London, the journalists of the Radio Station, Clare Rewcastle, and DJ Peter Jaban seek to investigate what has happened to the billions of dollars of profits from the illegal logging. When Mutang witnesses the destruction on the ground he is drawn back into the fold and together with the efforts of Clare and Peter we follow them on an international money trail that sets them against the political elite of Malaysia. As they seek to unravel the network of global money laundering at the heart of the logging industry members of the political elite who have benefited from logging come into their sights and the story takes an unexpected turn as the fallout from their findings begins to have major consequences. As a result of the investigation launched by the characters in the film over 600.000 people took to the streets of Kuala Lumpur in protest at high level corruption, whilst the Borneo State leader Abdul Taib Mahmud unexpectedly announced his resignation after 33 years in power. After the completion of the film the ongoing investigation into corruption has continued and led the US Department of Justice to launch lawsuits to recover more than $1.3bn of stolen assets that had been funneled through the American financial system. In the press conference announcing the lawsuits US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, called it "the largest kleptocracy case" in US history.
- Franz and Lilly should always take over the cattle breeding of their father. Franz can not imagine anything else for himself. For him, a true dream comes true. But with Lilly, it looks very different.
- They are called Cris, Jose, Paola, Amina, Zack or Anwarra - They never thought they were too young, too weak, too lonely to stand up against injustice or violence.
- Chouquette has invited people to celebrate her husband's birthday;only his former mistress turns up..
- Bussenghi is a cross-border commuter who is late to work every day because of Swiss border guard Bernasconi. As fate would have it, the two nemeses will have to coexist 24 hours a day.
- Join Frédéric Lenoir and enjoy the curious path of asking life meaningful questions to children aged 7 to 10, during philosophical workshops he conducted in two elementary schools during a school year.
- When world-famous photographer Thomas Hoepker was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, he and his wife decided to take a road trip across the U.S., his home for 40 years. An emotional journey in historic times.
- 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.
- A 12-year girl who lives with her single mother tries to found a new family with the help of a friend.
- They're single, widowed or divorced ; they've had children, husbands, a job. They have a life behind them, but also one to come - "Ladies" reveals the intimate lives of five women in their sixties who are waging a discreet daily battle against loneliness. It's true that men often prefer younger women, it's true that one feels invisible in a youth-oriented society, but they are not washed up, far from it. One fills her time with activities, another is recovering from the loss of her husband, others find sustenance in nature - And love? They still believe in it, of course. It's never too late to dream.
- Of the Voice tells the story of four people who dedicate their lives to the magic of the human voice.
- Story of a dairy farm in Haute Savoie going through 3 generations. The director is the neighbor and already did a film about it 25 years ago.
- Gertrud (89) has only one thing in mind when she smiles at the man online, even though she has no memory of doing so: to determine the final stages of her life herself before winding up in the dementia ward. But neither her end-of-life therapist or her family nor her suitor can be coaxed into honouring her request.
- Germany's most important architect, aged 94 works every day on construction projects with his sons Stephan, Peter and Paul. He's been preventing them from becoming independent, but then the family loses its emotional center: Elisabeth - who was also an architect - wife, mother and their most important source of inspiration.
- A grandmother living in a small Kenyan village completes her final year of primary school at the old age of 94.
- A visually stunning adventure from the few thousand kilometers that separate Patagonia from the South Pole, a definitive tribute to a disappearing continent.
- 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.
- A journey through the preparation and hardworking process of ballet dancers and musicians for a unique spectacle in Tokio that Béjart choreographed with the Ninth symphony of Beethoven. Béjart ballet dances with Tokio ballet and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Israel. A marvellous combination of dancers movements and expression of different feelings along the four movements of the symphony with absolute elegance and strength.