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- An outwardly normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations that put the very nature of her existence into question.
- After watching a documentary about black widow spiders, Ella spots a connection between the cannibalistic spider species, that eats the male after mating, and a mysterious woman, whom her father has invited to a date that evening.
- Two DJ's in Tehran are battling to play the music they love and set up dance parties. Local regime does not look well at harbingers of western culture of decay so the protagonists need to do big decisions.
- When Jessy tells David she's pregnant, his fears of inadequacy as a man take hold. Frantic, he resorts to steroids. Within a short time, David becomes a threat to Jessy and the unborn child.
- On a hot summer day four groups sweat without realizing that the world is slowly ending.
- Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for employment.
- In 2014, the Winter Paralympic Games took place at the same time as the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Following five Ukrainian athletes forced to adapt their personal and professional lives to the ongoing armed conflict, Pushing Boundaries is a pertinent reflection on the capacities of humans to push the boundaries between two countries, and those of their own body.
- Young wannabe novelist Dominique Piepermann sets out with a lively kebab vendor through a forgotten valley in the Swiss Alps where she comes face to face with love, loss and a Fiat Panda obsessed pimp.
- Jeanne, a young chef, has made it to a renowned star restaurant. With iron discipline she tries to convince her chef of her talent but fights against a merciless pecking order until she has to decide how far she wants to go for her career.
- Shannet Clemmings, a Black Transgender woman from Jamaica, shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by prejudice and discrimination as she wanders through the empty streets of a European city.
- The sun shines every day in Chagrin Valley, USA. Frozen in a 1950s-inspired artificial decor, this assisted living facility for people who suffer from dementia is home to fragile and ageing residents. Here, everyday life drags on slowly. Florence and her companions dream of an elusive elsewhere during their days punctuated by confusion, fleeting conflicts and overdue family visits. The caregivers - as kind as they are exhausted - run the show in this pastel-coloured, sanitised social theatre. Between two shifts, they confess their desire for a better future; one that is not so different from that of the residents, after all. The Swiss documentary maker Nathalie Berger, a Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) graduate, casts a tender and curious look over her protagonists. Examining our relationship with old age, illness and the universal fear of dying, and gently probing into the matter of our individual and collective dreams, she interrogates the false promises of our contemporary society.
- In the midst of the vibrant medina of Marrakech, Samir longs for love and a better future. But his summer flirtations always end at the airport and he is left behind in a country with limited opportunities. When Samir really falls in love, he is faced with the decision of his life: should he listen to his sister and enter into a traditional marriage in Morocco or follow love and the dream of a better future in Europe?
- Anna is working as a cleaning lady. Every night she cleans Helen's office. Helen is a high level broker working in the stock exchange. The two women live in different worlds and normally would never meet each other. However they happen to have enrolled on the same salsa course. Due to the lack of men, Anna and Helen have to dance together. A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
- Irna seeks refuge in her own world with Elias, a rubber doll.
- Hausarrest tells the story of Max, who was sentenced to house arrest for six months. An ankle monitor called Percy assists him during his arrest. But one day he realizes with horror how far Percy goes in its function.
- At a party teeming with young artists and bon vivants, the everyday, and yet the extraordinary, is happening. On their quest to experience love and life, they talk carelessly, risking everything, and dance on in the neon lights of the night... all together, and each by themselves.
- The story of Michael and his friends Mani and Dani. All three of them are patients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out! The lively interplay between the characters sets the scene and provides insight into the manic-depressive protagonist's inner world. A serious topic, portrayed in an entertaining and direct manner.
- Anna, Francesco, and the eight years old Giorgio can't afford a fancy holiday. Social pressure makes them fake a Bahamas vacation through photoshopped posts on social media. The deluge of likes/comments fuel an all-consuming dopamine rush.
- Late summer heats up the city where people search for their own form of love.
- A poor orphan ends up in a high society until a pair of red shoes forces her to dance forever.
- Ma Na Sapna tells the story of several women in India, dreaming of a better future for themselves and for their families through surrogacy.
- The young and progressive Swiss political movement Operation Libero sets up a campaign to oppose the populist right.
- Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd. He will once again show off his skills at a local talent show. The winner will get the heart of the lower middle class, as well as a generous prize money.
- A small airport in Switzerland. Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight. Natalie is waiting. For whom, she doesn't know yet. Two strangers, caught in a night with no morning.
- Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. Therefore he isolates himself from the outer world. One day, when Lothar breaks his beloved toaster, he faces a dilemma.
- A woman is chained to a factory rooftop. A man offers to rescue her. Things are not always what they seem.
- The gray rock of Mount Flimserstein. The luminous rectangle of a screen in an old Paris cinema. The glittering skyscrapers of Tokyo. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» is a cinematic journey comprising a rich array of images and memories marking an outstanding career. The first feature-length film by Pascal Hofmann and Benny Jaberg documents the eventful life and cineastic legacy of an exceptional Swiss director of both films and operas. It spans his formative childhood in a Belle Epoque hotel in the Grisons mountains, and follows his escape from the peaceful Alps to turbulent 1960s Berlin, his love for the cinema, and his encounters with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It delves into the worldly nightlife of 1970s Paris, and shows Schmid filming on location in Morocco, Portugal, and his native Grisons. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» traces the eventful life of a gifted artist. It is a film about arriving, time and again, and about taking leave, for ever. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» lets us hear several of his loyal companions comment on this exceptional artist, among others his muse Ingrid Caven, his cameraman Renato Berta, and close friends like director Werner Schroeter, actress Bulle Ogier, and film scholar Shiguéhiko Hasumi. And we hear Daniel Schmid himself - in a cinematic exploration of his life and work carried by his own voice and view of the world. A world situated between reality and fiction.
- Franco, an elderly man, lives his life in serenity together with his wife Margherita. The arrival of his brother Vittorio, with whom he hasn't talked in years, breaks the calm.
- Ivan meets Paolo, little Jonas meets Ida, another Jonas meets Sandra and Annina meets Jonas - in July, at a campsite by a river.
- Kosovo, 1998: When Dunja, a young Serbian woman, finds out that she's pregnant she decides to run away to her aunt in Switzerland.
- Isabell can't get over her dog's death. Unable to overcome her grief and surrounded by happy dog owners, she decides that no one else should have a dog.
- A young man loses his courage right before his planned bank robbery. He decides to rob a bar instead, where things turn out different than he imagined. A deaf barkeeper and a blind guest give him a really hard time.
- 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 man is stranded in a strange flat "the morning after", wearing nothing but his underpants, and he cannot exactly recall how he got there or what has happened. When he happens to meet the two roommates, he attempts to learn more about his delicate situation without letting on about his uncertainty. As it turns out, however, the two women are harbouring their own intentions.
- In this mazy filmplay Joggeli tries screening old film spools which leads to a nostalgic journey in the traces of his great-grandfather that bears astonishing resemblance to film history and a well-known black-and-white-comedian.
- A Swiss headmistress and politician deals with her son's radical attitude.
- Not only death, but complete darkness surrounds him, time seems to have stopped. He does not understand where he is. He also does not understand how he got here. But he has a guess for what reason he might be here. Music surrounds him. Melodies show him the way and lead us through the story. And then it can happen that the images disappear before our eyes and live on only in our minds.