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- What is tradition? This is the question posed by yodeller and food researcher Meinrad Koch from Canton Appenzell. In search of an answer, he embarks on a journey. In Norway he meets the Joiker Marja Mortensson, who is reviving her lost Sami singing culture. In Georgia, he meets Ninuca Kakhiani from the Tutarchela youth choir, who is interested not only in Georgian singing but also in music from other cultures.
- A film about the unprecedented Swiss grassroots movement of regular citizens who rise to aid thousands of refugees stranded at the European borders. In rich and safe Switzerland people from all backgrounds leave their regular life behind to support people in need. There is a Swiss farmer and his wife who keep cows in the Swiss Alps, a former commander of the Swiss Army, an elder rich lady residing at the lakeside, and a successful comedian and entertainer. These unexperienced volunteers take on an adventure that will change their lives forever.
- This is the story of 4 young people got so inspired by the french documentary "Demain" and decided to look for solutions around them. They started travelling around their town to meet the amazing people that already do so much for our future.
- Alexia, Kevin and Romain will soon be eighteen. Just like all young people their age, they have thoughts about their future and dreams of freedom. But having lived in institutions their whole life, the path towards an independent life will be long for these fragile teenagers.
- 'Alpsummer' provides deep insight into everyday life in the alps of Central Switzerland. It tells the story of four families of different generations, who administer these alps with their animals in conventional ways. The modest life they chose to live during the summer also dictates the rest of the year's cycle. In a time in which society is more and more dependent on consumption, it's refreshing to see how a simple life can make us happy. Next to the ever-ringing bells of the goat and sheep, the breathtaking landscapes are accompanied by the archaic 'Naturjuuz' (and old way of jodeling).
- 'From One Day To The Next' follows four elderly people through their everyday lives, observing how they cope with a gradual loss of autonomy. Even as they become increasingly dependent on outside help they insist on staying at home. But it seems inevitable that sooner or later they will have to move to a nursing home. In the meantime, their most important contacts to the outside world are the employees of the Visiting Nurse Service. But it's not always easy for the nurses to reconcile their human feelings of compassion with the professional, economic and bureaucratic demands of their job.
- A feature documentary film about STEVEN MCRAE, principal dancer of the Royal Ballet. A story of resilience, passion and hope.
- With an IQ of 149+, 13-year old Maximilian Janisch is Switzerlands most famous highly gifted child. After passing the final secondary-school examinations in Mathematics at just 9 years old, Maximilian has jumped forward 3 grades and is now attending Mathematical courses at University level. The film follows Maximilian and his parents through their high energy daily life and reflects on what it means to be a child prodigy.
- An old man who refuses to die in hospital gets on his scooter and goes up to the place in the mountains where his grandfather took him as a child in search of fossils. His son is compelled and obliged to go after him.
- FAVELA OLIMPICA unfolds in Rio de Janeiro on both sides of the wall separating the new Olympic Stadium and the favéla Vila Autódromo. Nothing prevents the co-existence of these two worlds but some judge them "incompatible" including Rio's mayor. His wish to reclaim these area reserved for Rio's poor since the 1990 sets off a lopsided power struggle as people with little means fight to keep their home. Meanwhile, the Opening Ceremony approaches . . .
- Carmela, don Gregorio, Gabriella and Lorella have never met but they have a lot in common. In the mid 60's, at the peak of the great migratory wave, alone or together with their families, they arrived in Switzerland, where they lived for a more or less lengthy period. They lived here during the difficult Schwarzenbach years while listening to the young pop singer from Verona, Gigliola Cinquetti, who became famous after her victory at the Sanremo Music Festival of 1964 with her song Non ho l'età (per amarti) / I'm not old enough (to love you). Thanks to her reassuring aspect, Gigliola found her way into their hearts and those of many other Italian immigrants all over the world. A symbol of the Italy they left behind, she became an object of veneration, resulting in her receiving thousands and thousands of fan letters. Four of these letters, having survived intact to the present day, tell of Carmela, don Gregorio, Gabriella and Lorella and of their experience as "immigrants". Carmela followed her parents to Switzerland, where for years she lived clandestinely and where, with patience and tenacity, built the base for her own family and profession. Don Gregorio, a young Calabrian seminarian in Chur, was an activity organizer in immigrant camps. After twenty years of service in the parishes of canton Zurich, he returned to Calabria to care for his original community and today's new immigrants. Gabriella, born in Switzerland to parents from the Veneto, followed her mother and father in their failed attempt to return to Italy. Lastly Lorella, whose parents hoped in vain to settle in Ticino and who were worn out by hard labor without every attaining the well being they desired. Four very different stories that cross paths to the refrain of one of the most popular songs of the period. Four different stories that speak of hopes, dreams, and solidarity. But they also tell of closure, xenophobia, clandestinity and exploitation.
- Documentary deals with the different natural landscapes of Germany and shows a journey from the coasts of the North Sea and Baltic Sea to the Alps. It also shows how the areas have changed due to human influence.
- Dr. Hildbrand is about to retire as other young doctors take over. At the intersection of generations and practices, the film questions the vocation and profound meaning of caring for others. Marie-Eve Hildbrand focuses on the human dimension of medicine in a system undergoing great change.
- Der Schweizer Geist was ist das? Mit dieser Frage macht sich Dokumentarfilmer Severin Frei auf, um das Wesen seiner Heimat zu erkunden und seinen Landsleuten den Puls zu fühlen. Er besucht die nördlichste, südlichste, östlichste und westlichste Gemeinde der Schweiz, taucht in alle vier Sprachkulturen ein und klettert auf den höchsten Punkt. Dabei begegnet er Menschen, die ihm eindrückliche Einblicke in ihre Lebensformen und Wertvorstellungen gewähren: vom Kabarettisten über die Alphornspielerin und den Extremkletterer bis zu innovativen Tüftlern. «Schweizer Geist» ist eine persönliche Entdeckungstour durch die eigene Heimat, eine Annäherung an Klischees, Mythen und wahre Werte. Und ein spannendes Zeitdokument, das eine Schweiz zeigt, wie sie 2013 von Schweizern gesehen wird authentisch, spontan und verblüffend herzlich.
- 55 students from the choir of St Michel's College in Fribourg Switzerland fly to Palestine to give a series of concerts there. They discover the region and conditions under the Israeli occupation.
- Cairo, a city of more than 20 million people, has recently gone through multiple political, cultural and economic upheavals, forcing Egyptian society to reinvent itself. In Egypt, people don't live on their own and it's only after they get married that they can leave their parent's home to create their own household. Whatever their intimate feelings might be, marriage is an inevitable step towards independence. The film follows the path towards marriage through the eyes of three couples. Instead of presenting marriage as the union of two beings for eternity, FIANCEES uses marriage as a pretext to talk about men and women, and the social pressures young couples face every day. By freeing the intimate and sincere voice of those characters, the film allows us to see the aspirations and fears of today's Egyptian youth.
- Three generations of women rebel against patriarchal prohibitions. In this cinematic letter, Swiss-Egyptian film director Nadia Fares pays tribute to her father as she recounts 75 years of women's struggles both in Egypt, her father's country, and in Switzerland, her mother's country, where she grew up. She explores the impact of patriarchal traditions in the East and the West, revealing them as mirror images.
- A retired couple's life is thrown into disarray when the wife is cast in a play.
- If Switzerland is sometimes perceived as heaven on earth, the question that follows is: do its inhabitants believe in heaven? Believers, agnostics and atheists all feel the need for a narrative when confronting death. So, what is left of paradise, which once promised eternal happiness? Encountering people in the twilight of their years, this film offers a moving, offbeat and personal quest within the depictions of this place common to all of humanity, faced with hope and shared doubt.
- When Muslims are shown in the media, they are portrayed as the bad guys. How then is it to be explained that every year, over a hundred Swiss people convert to Islam?
- The driving license system with points was set up in France in 1992. It consists in withdrawing a certain number of points from the license (which has twelve or six) depending on the seriousness of the offense, sometimes resulting in the retirement of the permit pure and simple. In such a case, point recovery courses are organized to help offending drivers to recover their license. Coline Serreau has undertaken to film this type of courses in various parts of the French territory, allowing their participants to express themselves, at the same time turning the floor over to different personalities, for or against the system.
- Vedette is a cow. Vedette is queen. She was even once queen of the queens of the Alps. But Vedette is getting older. In order to save her the humiliation of being dethroned by young rivals, our neighbors, Elise and Nicole let us look after her for an entire summer. This is where our vision changes : our vision of the cows, of our local neighbors, in short, our vision of the world.
- Just four months after giving birth, Giulia Tonelli, prima ballerina of the Zurich Opera, is coming back to the stage. An uneasy task not only for her body, but because of the conservative environment she's in. In a field where it is necessary to live, and to breathe only for art, Giulia is now torn between her role as a mother and her choice of career and the sacrifices it requires. Shot over three years, Becoming Giulia follows her at this pivotal moment of her life between representations, rehearsals and family life fighting to reconcile her professional and personal goals.
- In the heat of summer, two security guards secure the river below the Faverges district in Lausanne, Switzerland. Ammar is new to the business, and Daniel shares his experience with him. Through rounds and encounters, a territory takes shape, a friendship is built. What could have happened near the river? Navigating between documentary and fiction, Tizian Büchi subtly questions the surveillance society through a contemporary fable imbued with mystery, nostalgia and humor.
- The struggle for an open Russia, according to the country's most prominent opposition politician - the wealthy, controversial oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
- A documentary using fiction to bring Martin Suter's novels to life.
- In their small village in the Cuban countryside, Leonel (9) and Antuán (13) have been friends for their entire lives. But Antuán will move to Habana at the end of the summer and these holidays might be the last they ever spend together.
- Samba, together with football and beautiful woman, is what springs to mind when we think of Brazil. We wish to transcend such cliches and take Samba at its word, for what it is. And that is the great discovery of this film: that Samba cannot be reduced simply to dance and lascivious hip movements. Samba is also word, language, text, lyrics or simply said a way of life and also a cry against discrimination of black people. The composer and singer Martinho da Vila is our charismatic Cicero, guiding us through the world of Samba, telling stories about his 45-year career, meet his Samba school in Rio de Janeiro, the Vila Isabel.
- We visit a small French village in Alsace, international green city winner after its 2,200 inhabitants embarked on a transition away from oil products to reduce their ecological footprint.
- By following the career of two dancers of the National Cuban Ballet, Amanda, young ballerina and Viengsay Valdez, star dancer, Horizons revisits the extraordinary destiny of Alicia Alonso, prima ballerina assoluta, with a steel temperament who is now in the twilight of her life.
- Don't look down Loch Änzi or you might turn into a ghost.
- Dirty Gold War is a fable about gold and the reality that lies beneath a sacred metal associated with love and celebrations. Through protagonists such as Raoni Metuktire or Marco Arana, the film opens our eyes to the devastating gold rush sites, deep within Amazonia. This film reveals important issues about a gold rush that is continuing in the 21st century, in silence and indifference, regardless of the interests of indigenous peoples and of our planet.
- Sam, a seven years old kid, has been living with his mother since divorce of his parents. He has to temporarily move to his father, Gerome, who has never taken care of him. So, Sam is not close with his father. Everyone around Gerome thinks that he's incapable to look after a child. After a chaotic start, Sam, by the force of his convictions, is going to help Gerome to get mature and to teach him how to become a father that he missed so much.
- Adopting an animal into your life can be a life changing experience. The documentary film "Cody - a homage to dogs" researches the possibilities and the accompanying conflicts and dilemmas when adopting street dogs and trying to treat all beings with equal rights. Taking their past and emotions in consideration. There is no guarantee for success. But if man wants to qualify as the greatest creature on earth, it comes with responsibilities. Cody is an adopted Romanian street dog. He had a long journey and so did his human companion. They want to share the learnings they had along the way and support shelters around the world so more dogs can find a loving home. Sharing their example of how profound a human-animal bond can be, they aim to inspire more people to adopt, or at least pay a visit to their local shelter. This documentary is bound to raise awareness that everyone deserves a second chance, no matter their past.
- The Chilean director Carlos Klein accompanies the emergence of acclaimed Russian director Victor Kossakovsky's new film 'Long Live the Antipodes', in which he explores the relationship between humans and places that are situated on opposite sides of the earth. Therefore he travels together with Kossakovsky around the world to outlying spots of breathtaking beauty. During the shooting Carlos Klein takes a careful look on the protagonist's form of artistic creation and unfolds his ambivalent attitude to film making. The longer the antipodal journey goes on, the more tension determines the working process as well as the relationship between the two directors.
- El tiempo nublado is a supremely personal film about a universal issue, we all have to face: What are we going to do with our parents, once they are old and ill?
- Toto and his schoolmates set off on a five-day field trip to an organic farm, ready to enjoy the fresh air and have crazy adventures.