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- Noah - a thoughtful twelve-year-old with a big heart in search of the magic of the world - understands the importance of memories through the Alzheimer disease of his grandfather. When he finds an old lost diary of a stranger, he decides to search for the author and bring him back his memories. His decision leads him on a journey all across Switzerland where he collects many impressions which will accompany him for the rest of his life.
- The film records the activities of the German expedition ship Xarifa, under the leadership of Dr. Hans Hass in the Caribbean and around the Galapagos islands in the PAcific. Fictional incidents,mainly built around Dr Hass' attractive wife Lotte are interpolated.
- Las Vegas 2006: Azem Maksutaj faces the most important minutes of his life. Everything is at stake. If he wins he is the first Swiss athlete after Andy Hug who participates in the K-1 World GP Final in Tokyo, the largest martial arts tournament worldwide. This could be the crowning achievement of his 15- year-career or its sad ending. With images full of tragedy, tension and joy Being Azem tells the story of a boy who comes from a small village in Kosovo and makes a meteoric rise in Switzerland to become one of the most successful Thai boxers of all time and the pride of a whole nation.
- 'Beyond North' is tempting you to follow four Swiss, reunited by fate, on their way through the Baltic States. On stolen bicycles they aim to get the blues of the North. Their escape from reality turns out to be the search for true friendship. The great and rare stroke of luck they hope to find only exists in their mind. A touching movie resolving the conflict between subjectivity and real perception as well as the constant need for mankind to find the meaning of life.
- The documentary is a portrait of a traditional job in transition and eight strong women who fill it.
- 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.
- The documentary 'Breathing Underwater' tells the inspiring story of Dr. Nils Jent. At the age of eighteen, he had a devastating motorcycle accident. No heartbeat for eight minutes and two months in a coma left him blind and with heavy disabilities. But thanks to his unbreakable will and the unconditional support and love of his parents, he has slowly recovered his independency. After years in hospitals and rehabilitation centers, he managed not only to graduate from high school and university but also to gain a PhD in business administration. Today, Nils lives in St.Gallen where he teaches and explores, how people with disabilities can be integrated in organizations in an economically beneficial way. But despite his professional success life is still a struggle. Being blind and hardly able to move and speak is not that easy after all.
- On the phone, fraudsters strike fear and terror into their victims with so-called "shock calls." The damage amounts to millions, month after month. Many affected individuals are left severely traumatized. However, the scam has a vulnerability, and the izzy team has uncovered it.
- Am Fusse des Säntis, nicht weiter als eine Stunde Fahrzeit von Zürich, existiert eine Klangwelt, wie wir sie nur in exotischen Ländern in Afrika vermuten. Die klangmagische Bedeutung der Naturjodel und der Senntumsschellen bestimmen auch heute noch Leben und Kultur der Bauern im oberen Toggenburg. Gepflegt und integriert ins tägliche Leben, vermitteln die Gesänge und Klangrituale der Sennen und Bauern Authentizität und tragen dazu bei, dass die Bergbauern mit ihrem harten Alltag den Glauben an eine sinnvolle Existenz in ökonomisch schwierigen Zeiten und Identität erhalten können. Der Jodel, oder das Johlen, wie er hier oben genannt wird, hat mit Folklore und Romantik nichts zu tun. ...
- The 24 Hours race at the Nuerburgring is the toughest 24 hours race in the world. More than 230'000 fans visited the 2012 race and camped around the 25km long race track to enjoy the race and the night long party. It is the stage of great stories and the birth place of many legends. In 24 Hours in 70 Minutes we tell the story of Hofor Racing, a small team of independent racing drivers, that had the dream to reach the checkered flag after 24 hours of racing with their two BMW M3 race cars. Dejan Grujcic and his team captured everything on camera, from the first test drive to the checkered flag coming down, from racing action to pure emotion.
- Two young men from Zurich want to make the big deal by driving two cars from Zurich to Cairo.
- The Zurich social welfare office sends a young worker to look after a 75 year old man thinking about suicide: His wife is suddenly paralyzed and his dwelling and work place change hands, forcing him to deal with relocating as well.
- Welcome to "the prime of life". All his life, Rudy has worked hard for the firm, and for the family. But now, everything is about to change: Rudy retires. No alarm clock, no meetings, no travels to distant countries to set the pace. Shopping, cooking, gardening, and the daily routines of marital bliss will now fill his schedule. Rudy was actually looking forward to it, to the next phase. But as he soon realizes, "the prime of life" is a wild ride on an emotional rollercoaster. Retirement is not for cowards.
- After attempting suicide, Michi is sent to boarding school by his mother. But even there, the question of the truth about his father catches up with him again.
- Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. Together with a few friends, among them famous Swiss actor Stefan Kurt, director Aron Nick's father and uncle shoot the idealistic Super 8 film "Dr Tscharniblues" ("The Tscharni Blues") - a wild, unvarnished self-portrait of their generation. 40 years later, Nick gathers the friends at Tscharnergut and asks what has happened to them and their ideals in the meantime.
- A documentary film about people living on light (breatharianism).
- Odyssey of the fortune-teller Daniele von Arb who, aged sixteen, joined the revolutionary underground and made the headlines as a top Swiss terrorist.
- Mainly about people and the music we make, this ethnographic documentary, set in the Swiss Alps, presents the viewer with a landscape of noise, a world full of original sound and impressions neither with dialogue, nor commentary.
- An Argentinian biology student falls in love with a Swiss actress.
- In Bern, Sylvia Leiser has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and subtle portrait about aging as a prostitute, a documentary about a vanishing chapter of habits in Switzerland.
- From the time he was a child Wolfgang Fasser knew he'd be blind in his twenties. But as darkness descended, a whole new world began to open up to him: the world of sound. He marveled at its richness and nuance, at how it moved him and made him connect with nature and with the people around him. Setting aside his childhood dream of becoming a veterinarian, Wolfgang became a physical therapist to severely disabled children. While their parents endeavor to accommodate their needs, it is in Wolfgang that the children find a true friend. In a Swiss hamlet tucked away in the mountains he has constructed a safe haven in which the children can explore and create sound through cymbals, drums, piano or feel sound resonate through their bodies on a therapeutic bed of chords... The tension in their bodies gradually dissipates as they open to the mysteries of sound and music. Wolfgang's immense capacity for compassion and patience creates an environment of unconditional love and respect in which these children blossom. In his directorial debut, Nicola Bellucci focuses with quiet reverence on Wolfgang Fasser just as he does on the children in his care. The result is transcendent.
- This documentary shows the Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler. He was a visionary and a realist.
- A story about the unfathomable ways of chance in the lives of four young adults
- A young refugee tries to make a living delivering food by bike and becomes a target for Zurich's most dangerous bicycle gang.
- Karl Tellenbach, called "Dällebach Kari", was one of Bern's legendary characters at the beginning of the 20th century. Born with a strong hare lip which left him disfigured and gave his voice a peculiar nasal tone, he devoted his entire life trying to get people to laugh with him instead of at him. Ultimately, his despairing at ever becoming accepted as a fellow man coupled with unrequited love made his life tragic, culminating in his suicide at age 54. His jokes are still well known today.
- The story of two best girlfriends and how love, sex, hate and unhealthy relationships slowly start to demolish them both mentally.
- Driven by strange desire a loner is fatally attracted to two sisters. A Neo Noir.
- A handful of people are dissatisfied with their actually good life: while Ludwig (Rudolf Nadler) would like to go on vacation, his girlfriend Anna (Anne Knaak) only has eyes for Stefan (Matthias Tiefenbach) and sinks into work. Toni and Cyrill (Dina Leipzig and Cyrille Rey-Coquais) almost only argue with each other and the actor Max (Christoph Krix) wishes for more glorious times.
- KICK THAT HABIT is a film created in the bleak eastern region of Switzerland. At first, a group plays a game of mini-golf, then the Swiss musicians Voice Crack (Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl) rehearse in the studio, afterward heading up to Alpstein, at which point you are right in the middle of a concert, next stepping away to the blue south, taken back to a table laid for dinner, then relocating down by the lake for the next concert, which fades away into romanticized Russian Super-8 landscapes, until before long you find yourself groping in the dark, when, underneath the water, you return back to the studio, where the movie writes its own soundtrack.
- Suberg. 475 meters above the sea, 612 inhabitants. A train station, a school, a tavern and a fertilizer factory. An average village in the Swiss Plateau. Within only three decades, this sleepy farmers' village has turned into an anonymous dormitory village. Simon Baumann has lived in Suberg since he was born. For 32 years, however, the filmmaker has successfully ignored the village and its inhabitants. Unlike his grandfather, who was a central figure in the village, he hardly knows anybody here. The filmmaker wants to change this now and tries to establish contact with the villagers. But how to integrate into a village that offers hardly any village community anymore? And why is it like that? Searching for answers, Simon meets people who have characterized Suberg and its development, deals with the concepts of life of his ancestors and finds with the male choir a last small oasis of community spirit.
- 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.
- Feature length documentary film about graphic designer, photographer and visual artist Herbert Matter.
- A young man fights for his life after being diagnosed with cancer.