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- A modern tragedy about a group of 14-year-old schoolchildren whose daily life is shaped by the power of social media and ever increasing sexualisation through the Internet.
- An outwardly normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations that put the very nature of her existence into question.
- Two young football players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love.
- Three lonely herdsmen starved of female companionship creates the girl of their dreams, from a broom, some straw and a few rags. The creation - Sennentuntschi, lives and breathe to cook, clean and look after the three.
- Lena is in love with her brother Noah. In the desperate attempt to conquer her feelings, she retreats into a world of her own.
- Talented swimmer, motivated apprentice-- Beyto is in the midst of life, with a bright future ahead of him. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love with his coach Mike, an ideal world falls to pieces.
- In late 19th century Switzerland, a factory worker becomes involved with a local group of anarchist watchmakers.
- The Swiss population decides that there should only be one national language in the future. During the transition to monolingualism, federal policeman Walter Egli and his colleague have to deal with a group of opponents.
- Isolated in the Swiss Alps, a young woman who would have liked to become a teacher teaches her deaf brother arithmetic and writing. An incestuous relationship develops between them.
- They live behind the rails of the classification yard in a small and shabby hut. They take the days as they come, refuse to work on principle and pinch together their livelihood. The three tramps Dürst, Barbarossa and Clown are content with what they have and ignore the outside world, and so far they have fared well. Until now...
- A twelve-year-old piano prodigy who suffocates from his parent's big dreams for him decides to make his escape--and with the aid of his grandfather--chase his own dreams instead.
- In 1971, a young housewife organizes the women of her town to petition for the right to vote.
- A retired couple is getting ready to enjoy their life as pensioners on a cruise trip through the Mediterranean. The spouses end up going on separate journeys of self-discovery and finding unexpected ways of how to spend their golden years.
- Young father Gabriel takes care alone of his son. When he falls in love with enigmatic Corey, a state of emergency is declared - wild animals are on the run and life becomes utterly existential.
- A high school teacher's double life begins to come apart at the seams when well-hidden secrets gradually emerge.
- After eighteen years of marriage, Alice finds herself confronted with the fact that her husband Frank feels more and more attracted to men. Not only Frank, but also she and their three children undergo an irreversible change.
- In a remote mountain village, Anna tries to preserve her young love for Marco, against all odds.
- It's the month of August and hot in the city. Dante's girlfriend has abandoned him for a rich lover. Then he meets Rhea, who lives together with a wealthy man twice her age. She claims that he's not jealous and begins an erotic game with Dante, who passionately rushes headlong into the affair, no questions asked. But why is it that Rhea counts her erotic encounters precisely? And why does she document practically everything she experiences with the video on her mobile phone?
- Ten directors of a new generation of filmmakers tell how differently people in Switzerland cope with the worst imaginable disaster; the fact of being dependent on other countries.
- In order to get out of a financial crisis, high school teacher Balz Naef (53) starts recruiting and training streakers for illegal sports betting.
- A young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality.
- Over the course of five years THE DRIVEN ONES follows tomorrow's business elite: from their studies in the best master's program worldwide through to the first years of their careers.
- Spring 1995 - after the closure of the Needle Park in Zurich, 11-Year- Old Mia and her heroin addicted mother Sandrine are relocated to the countryside.
- On Christmas Eve, the prostitute Mia meets four different people for different reasons.
- A Swiss-German rural peasant family takes Max, a crude 15-year-old boy, into a foster situation of constant bullying. Soon, a foster girl is added to the mix.
- Ruth is committed to her work, her family, and her faith, but when an ex-lover is released from prison and comes back into her life, her convictions are threatened.
- Lorenz Meran, (40) a successful gay author suffering acute writers' block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide care for his aged mother, Rosie. When he finds himself confronted with the fact that fun-loving Rosie refuses both outside assistance and a care home, he discovers that he is stuck fast in his small home town of Altstätten. But it is not only his mother's battle against being dictated to and losing her dignity that he is struggling with. It's also his own midlife crisis. And when long-kept secrets are suddenly revealed under the tensions of family dynamics, Lorenz almost fails to notice that love is knocking on the front door of his parent's house...
- Linda and Eta, two 14-year-old girls, best of friends, retreat to a secluded beach beneath the cliffs of Dubrovnik; the morning after, only one of them returns.
- When five friends discover a mysterious film reel that inspires their imagination, all long-awaited dreams seem to come true - even the dark ones.
- Heidi lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps in the summer, and she and Peter play and tend the goats. In the winter, she stays with Peter's mother, and she and Peter attend school. One day a letter arrives from Heidi's friend Klara Sesemann, an ill youngster who spends most of her time in wheelchair, stating that she is coming to visit. The teacher has been having trouble getting Peter to study, and Heidi's grandfather decides to pose as Santa Claus and scare him into it. This is successful, and Heidi helps Peter learn to read. they attend school. The arrival of summer also brings Klara, with her grandmother and her prim governess Rottenmeyer. Heidi's grandfather suggests that Frau Sesemann stay with him and Heidi, while Rottermeyer stays in the village to visit and keep an eye on Klara. Peter is resentful and destroys Klara's wheelchair. Heidi's grandfather is secretly pleased, as he feels that Klara doesn't really need it. Calamity strikes when a storm causes the brook to overflow, flooding the village and wrecking many houses. Klara pitches in to help and forgets about her illness, emerging a healthy and happy girl. Her father is overjoyed and organizes a festival in a nearby town to help the stricken village.
- Zurich in 1519: The young widow Anna Reinhart lives a barren life between fear of the church and worries about the future of her three children, when the arrival of a man in the city causes turmoil: The young priest Ulrich Zwingli takes up his new position at the Grossmünster in Zurich and sparks fierce discussions with his sermons against the grievances of the Catholic Church. Zwingli's revolutionary thoughts frighten Anna. But when she sees how Zwingli lives charity and not just preaches, she increasingly becomes fascinated by him. But Zwingli's success quickly becomes dangerous. His ideas almost trigger a civil war, and at the same time a struggle for power and interpretive sovereignty breaks out in the inner circle of the movement. When the Catholic forces begin to form internationally, the relationship between Zwingli and Anna is put to a hard test.
- Robert (22), a former driver in illegal races, returns to his hometown after a long period of absence. He is determined to put his past behind him and starts an apprenticeship in a repair shop. When he meets teacher Alice, his life starts to unravel. The strong bond of a dark past connects them. He follows her every move and spies on her. In order to get closer to her, he pretends to be someone else and takes an English class with her. But for how long can he hide his true identity?
- A look at the life the dark surrealist Swiss artist, H.R.Giger shot a year before his death.
- The demise of airline Swissair in 2001 was a huge blow to Switzerland's economy and to the country's morale. It was a sad day for Swiss history when the airline's fleet was grounded on 2 October 2001. "Grounding" is set during the last days of the doomed airline, and tells the story of manager Mario A. Corti's unhappy fate, the last, unlucky CEO at the traditional airline company, as well as of all those nameless people who lost almost everything in the maelstrom of Swissair's downfall: their job, home and their belief in Switzerland.
- Where do Swiss German dialects stand in this era of globalisation? When the railways came to Switzerland in the mid-19th century, the Swiss feared that standard German would supplant the native idioms. But the opposite has happened: not only has the dialect survived, it has lost none of its vitality. Following in the footsteps of a forgotten Bernese word, we travel to the stage, the mountain pastures and the cellars to meet people who are passionate about the dialect.
- A young refugee tries to make a living delivering food by bike and becomes a target for Zurich's most dangerous bicycle gang.
- A boy must brave deep winter snow to obtain an important family keepsake. Before he can even start this difficult journey he must first help his family survive financial ruin, rescue his beloved pet goat, and with his best friend, outwit a bratty bully who seems out to get him at every turn. Will he make it back to the village in time to celebrate the end-of-winter holiday of Chalandamarz?
- The Undertaker is back - as a picture. Mike Müller slips into the role of Luc Conrad for the last time and investigates a mysterious murder case with his crew in the old familiar manner. The former undertaker and ex-policeman Luc Conrad (Mike Müller), who runs a restaurant in Costa Rica in his new life, travels to Switzerland to celebrate her 70th birthday with Erika Bürgisser (Suly Röthlisberger). His old companions Fabio Testi (Reto Stalder) and the two Aargau policemen Anna-Maria (Barbara Terpoorten) and Doerig (Samuel Streiff) are of course also invited to the celebration in an old, run-down hotel in the Engadine. Just as everyone gathers in the garden for the celebration, the hotel director dies under mysterious circumstances. For the Graubünden cantonal police officer Cavegn it is clear that it was an accident. But the undertaker's family suspects from the dead man's last words that it was a murder and extends their stay.
- A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as 'telephone walking'. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.
- Four kids - Eugen, Wrigley, Bäschteli and Eduard - leave for an adventure around Switzerland, searching for the fabulous treasure of Titicaca Lake, discovered by Fritzli Bühler.
- Two Swiss citizens, Daniela Widmer and David Och, who were kidnapped by the Taliban in Pakistan in July 2011 and succeeded in making a spectacular escape after eight months spent in captivity.
- Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray.
- Dad is left home with the kids when their Mom is away for the weekend, but when Dad has to work overtime at the Chocolate Factory, mayhem ensues when the kids get into a feud with the nasty boys next door!
- Isolated, Peter K. lives on the edge of society. The pensioner feels supervised by the state. His sister has betrayed him and he is in danger of losing his house.
- Saâd, Thuruban, Andrija and Luka, all Swiss officers with Serbian, Sri Lankan and Tunisian roots, have retained a strong connection to their culture of origin. In a personal documentary film, director Luka Popadic gives an insight into the Swiss army from the perspective of four officers with a migration background and humorously questions prejudices about home, belonging and integration.
- Around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of thousands of people were spied on in Switzerland. Policeman Schuler goes undercover to reveal a possible political coup in the Zurich Schauspielhaus.
- A couple from Zurich believes they did everything right. Then their adolescent children start disrupting the family system. Until the parents move out. An autofictional grotesque.
- Small town guy «Goalie» lands in prison for not ratting out his childhood friend Ueli to the police. After a year spent in jail, he heads back to his hometown Schummertal. He sets for a fresh start, but the old ghosts come back again. He finds no love lost around, except for the waitress Regula who seeks shelter at his place after leaving her violent partner. Goalie takes her to a short trip to Spain, but messes up with her when he finds out the truth behind his year spent in prison.