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- Six young film students want to master a few courage tests in an old abandoned bunker in Switzerland. But at 9:59 a.m. next day, each of them is dead.
- A father imposes a set of 20 rules on his daughter before she leaves home for university. Making sure that she obeys them perfectly, he secretly follows her, but ends up falling in with a party crowd and breaking all the rules himself.
- 4 Stories around normal days in the life of Korean people... About Life, Love, Hope, Forgiveness...
- A quintet is an omnibus feature told from the perspective of five international up and coming filmmakers who are searching to find identity in the modern world.
- In 2003 in Morocco, fourteen Heavy Metal musicians and fans have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for lewd conduct and defamation of Islam. After protests by Casablancas youths they were pardoned a few weeks later. Ten years later, swiss Hardcore band VALE TUDO is set to find out about how things have since changed for Moroccos alternative music scene. They hit the road with the aim to play at least four shows in ten days.
- 1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not all Swiss officials observe this inhuman order.
- A small farming community in Colombia peacefully resists, defending their right to cultivate and live on the land of their ancestors. An industrial farming association tries to drive them out using constant threats and attacks to enforce the mono culture of oil palm. Forcefully displaced from their land on multiple occasions, the community of Las Pavas decides to return, to rebuild their settlements, and restart the cultivation of their own food. Their main instrument of resistance is music; powerful songs that narrate their experiences and become the soundtrack of a tragic story, but full of hope with an ending yet uncertain.
- A young girl from Turkish immigrant family tries to get the divorce after a marriage arranged by her father with a fundamentalist, for to start a new life with a young asylum seeker, whom she loves.
- A documentary about 2 German brothers, born and raised in Switzerland, Jens and Uwe Kruger started singing and playing instruments at a very young age. Since a formal introduction to American audiences in 1997, their remarkable facility with their instruments and unique take on the American Songbook have made the Kruger Brothers a fixture within the world of acoustic music. Since they moved to the US, they had the ability to life their dreams and play their own music.
- The 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union.
- A film about two siblings, Emilie and Jakob, about their deep love for each other, as well as their own happiness. Two things that do not always coincide.
- An homage to the biker movies and the people that made them.
- 13 European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo and what this city represents in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo incarnates today in Europe. From different generations and origins, these eminent filmmakers offer many singular styles and visions. François Schuiten, famous Belgian comic book artist (Cities of the Fantastic) imagined animated cartoon links in between these films, a metaphoric transposition in his graphically luxuriant world of the emblematic bridges of the city of Sarajevo.
- Out in desert-like nature, living in the shadows of the immense fence that is erected to control Mexican immigration, seven Americans tell how the border transforms their lives. They observe the haunting traces left by the crossing migrants, people they never come face to face with, as they confide their fear, defiance and at times even compassion.
- Carl Lutz, an Appenzell diplomat and second-in-command at the Swiss Embassy in Budapest, saved tens of thousands of persecuted Hungarian Jews from death during World War II. His humanitarian action is considered the greatest civil rescue operation of Jews during the Holocaust. Lutz negotiated directly and shrewdly with Adolf Eichmann, the deviser of the Holocaust. During this rescue operation, the married Vice-Consul fell in love with one of his protégés. After the end of the war, he divorced his wife, married his beloved in Budapest and moved with her and her daughter to Berne. Instead of being thanked by his country, he was chided for excess of authority and splashing out on his expense account. Until his death, Lutz fought bitterly and vainly for his rehabilitation.
- A journey at the heart of Myanmar (Burma), off the beaten track, on the meeting of mahouts and their elephants in the rain forest, fishermen of the delta of Irrawaddy and ethnic minorities of the golden triangle.
- At the Arctic edge of America, five Native Alaskan teenagers strive to be both modern American kids and the inheritors of an ancient whaling culture.
- Everyone calls Kevin "Little Fatty" because at 12 he already weighs more than a hundred kilos. Until he meets Pat, who organizes combat training with the teenager. Kevin's pounds tumble off, but he also adopts Pat's questionable attitudes.
- Recorded in Switzerland in 2009, the combination of Rick Wakeman on grand piano with a symphony orchestra, Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana, is visually and sonically sumptuous.
- CLIM8 presents an abstract perspective shift on climate change, exploring concepts about human delusions, myth-making, and self-induced disaster in the format of an experimental documentary. The film is broken into four chapter exploring denial, impatience, confusion, and fatalism-all of which are obstacles to dealing with negative human impact on the environment. Using an abstract framework, we attempted to conjure these themes in mini-image stories told with minimal text, no dialogue, and a mix of motion graphics, non-cellular animation, and digital footage. Although the film is complete on its own, the diverse and moving score contributes to this emotional experience most powerfully when performed live.
- A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.
- 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?
- Composed in six parts, Communists (Kommunisten) re-ignites scenes from the diverse filmography of Straub and Huillet, moving from Switzerland to Italy to Egypt, to chart a story of resistance across the 20th century.
- Deborah and Simon park their car to go hugging in the forest. They get knocked out and wake up in a house where Diane, Carla, Célian and Jeff live: four dangerous psychopaths who spend their time humiliating and killing innocent people. Attached, chained, they have no chance of escaping. They will live - with other young people, for they are not alone - what they would like to be a nightmare. There are well-kept secrets. Few people know them. It's something powerful. He protects these four bloody maniacs .
- A sensitive portrait of Sidi Bouzid, drawn by its residents with a deep rooted and sharp political consciousness.
- 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.
- Mother and daughter find their rhythm tracing the steps of sixteenth century writer Montaigne through France. During three months searching for Montaigne, they confront each other's fears about the future and unaccomplished dreams.
- A look at the life the dark surrealist Swiss artist, H.R.Giger shot a year before his death.
- Autumn 1947: Elisha, a young Jew, learns that he has been chosen to kill the hostage John Dawson, a captain in the British Army occupying Palestine. Will Elisha, himself a survivor of the holocaust, be able to commit this irrevocable act?
- After the director's death, his partner and some devoted friends put together a multimedia project in three parts to pass Liechti's unfinished last film "Dedications" on to posterity. This is the filmed reading of the script by its author.
- Marwan, an attractive young immigrant from Sri Lanka, has been working as a kitchen assistant in a star restaurant in Zurich since the death of his parents in the Sri Lankan civil war, but dreams of having his own restaurant. He wants to combine traditional Indian cuisine, as his great aunt taught him, with avant-garde molecular cuisine. Their motto is "Cooking is transforming": cold to hot, hard to soft, sour to sweet. It turns out that his creations have a strong aphrodisiac effect: when he invites his co-worker Andrea to dinner, she seduces him after eating, even though she is a lesbian and even though she is very conservative. And thinks arranged marriages are right. The two of them founded a joint catering service called Love Food, which they use to bring new life into the love lives of married couples who have undergone sex therapy. Since Marwan needs money for his terminally ill great aunt, the catering company turns into an environment of commercial sex. Andrea's partner Makeda, who works for an escort service, makes contact. Business is booming and money is flowing liberally into Marwan's pockets. Meanwhile, Marvan's nephew Ulagu returns to his homeland and is recruited by the Tamil guerrilla fighters the Tamil Tigers. Marwan fails to save him; Ulagu died from a weapon that suspected businessman Dalman - a client of the catering service - could have delivered to the crisis zone. When Marwan's aunt also dies, Marwan decides to stop cooking for Love Food. During the last meal that he prepares for Dalman and Andrea's girlfriend, he ensures that Dalman, who has a heart condition, dies due to the drug mixed in his drink. Andrea and Makeda come together and Marwan can turn to the delicate Sandana, with whom a marriage was arranged for him, but who initially rejected him.
- In the beginning, My first documentary was meant to be a portrait of the president of the carnival club in my home village. During the filming, it went clear very fast, that my protagonist was wearing a mask not only at Carnival. He lives a double life. I gradually realized that this film project has a lot in common with my own history too. I discovered parallels between the story of the carnival president and mine. The originally planned, straight forward portrait, turned into an essay on home in general and an ethical lesson in film making. The director became the protagonist and the protagonist an director.
- 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.
- 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.
- Nico is seeking fortune and his soul mate. His friend Simon, on the other hand, has only one-night stands on his mind. At first, both seem to be able to find what they are looking for, but, as life goes, both see the course of the lives significantly altered at a moment's notice. How they deal with those drastic changes and face elemental questions of love, honesty, fate and loneliness.
- Donkeys and Disillusionment visualizes the life stories of five pilgrims and a donkey over a six year period. A man leaves the city to walk the Camino de Santiago with a donkey. As he travels the ancient pilgrimage route, he crosses paths with a number of like-minded travelers from different countries and struggles with a stubborn donkey. Each pilgrim is in search of something more, and their similar and contrasting stories are revealed. The film charts the physiological and social changes in these characters as they undertake the physically and mentally grueling journey across Europe. Six years later, the same characters are interviewed in their hometowns and we discover whether or not the pilgrimage was a catalyst for change in their lives.
- 'if you only had one year left of your life, what would you do?' This question asks Swiss author Franz Hohler. His answer: 'Make death your adviser to live life to the fullest.' He is one of several carefully chosen Swiss citizens who give us an insight into their personal views on life and death. Besides these colorful, oftentimes funny quotes we meet Tom, a 50-year old male that has been diagnosed with incurable brain tumor. Contrary to what one would expect, Tom takes his sickness not as a burden but as a chance and lives his life happier than ever before. This to the surprise of his family and friends and above all - himself. The film encourages people to live life more consciously.
- 'You can get it if you really want.' If this sentence applies to anyone, then it most definitely applies to Florian Burkhardt. He achieved nearly everything he wanted. Except the one thing that was most important to him: escaping himself.
- Between 1988 and the early '90s, three events shook Armenia: a terrible earthquake, the Nagorno-Karabakh war, and the fall of the USSR. As a result, some people chose exile. Khachatryan, a maestro of Armenian cinema, follows the audacious destiny of one of those men who decided to leave their homeland, creating an epic and moving portrait of a tireless narrator.