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The long and painful fight of Allegra, the only survivor of a terrorist attack that took the life of her three friends.

Veteran ambulance chaser Oscar gets 'bitten' by a dog and decides to make some cash by suing its owner. However, this turns out to be Armando, a penniless man just released from jail after 30 years for a crime he didn't commit, shunned by everyone except his dog. Oscar sees the potential of getting millions in compensation from the state, and the two fifty-somethings team up in search of clues along with the help of a friendly Barista who owns the a café.

A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity.

A beautiful new teacher arrives in a small, traditional village in Switzerland. Luca immediately falls in love with her - until he realizes that his best friend receives as much of her (professional) attention. But the sleazy mayor is after her too. When she refuses his blunt advances, he's out for revenge by ruining her reputation, using the love of her pupils.

Ticinese writer Fabio Andina retraces the return of his grandfather, a political prisoner, from the Mauthausen concentration camp to his home in Cremenaga. 820 km in 45 days. 'My grandfather helped Jews, partisans and deserters fleeing Nazi-Fascism to take refuge in Switzerland. On 5 May 1945, the KZ Mauthausen was liberated by the US Army. On 6 July 1945, sixteen months after his arrest, my grandfather returned home and never told what happened to him.'

With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Granz) sees it. Besides, Bruno needs such an overly enterprising fellow to help him pull off a really big heist that he's been planning for a long time. It takes some doing but the boy and his girlfriend are recruited by the older man, who has been keeping a low profile by working as a gardener.

San Gottardo is first and foremost a film about emigration, the exodus brought about by the construction of the two tunnels - the railway tunnel (1872-1882) and the road tunnel (1969-1976). People migrated from one country to another, from one civilization to another, and different social mores and customs were confronted with one another. The film takes place between the unveiling of two monuments: it begins with the unveiling of the monument dedicated to the tunnel workers in Airolo, and it ends with the unveiling of the Escher monument on the Zurich Bahnhofstrasse. In between the two unveiling, the film depicts the essence of that which lay behind the veiling cloth.

Sinestesia chronicles the vicissitudes of four young adults in two moments of their lives which are in turn linked to two dramatic episodes three years apart. The intervening years see the characters confronted by the usual joys and difficulties of everyday life.

During the Algerian War between 1954-1962 few young Frenchmen defaulted on military service. These draft dodgers believed in non-violence. Some fled to Switzerland where they received help from Swiss citizens.

The photographer Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini was born in Paris in 1927, to parents from Locarno. Emigrating with his parents to Switzerland in 1943, he starts taking photographs in Davos. By the end of the war, he is taking up a job offer with Paris Match, and beginning his short career as a photojournalist. Little more than a decade later, while capturing enduring images of the Budapest uprising of 1956, he is fatally injured. I meet people who shared his reportage, trips and adventures: photographers Russ Melcher, Willy Rizzo, Franz Goess, Benno Graziani and Erich Lessing. And I speak to his colleague Mario De Biasi, present in 1956 on Republic Square in Budapest when Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini falls under a hail of bullets on the Battle of the AVO headquarters. I visit Dominique Lapierre, too, with whom Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini published a book about the trip that they did through the USSR in early 1956, accompanied by their wives: at that time a first. In Tbilisi I meet the surgeon Georgi Mossechvili who hosted the two French couples during their trip. The film broadens our perspective on Pedrazzini's work, exploring not only drama of the famous Budapest pictures, but the full scope of his earlier work which led him there.

Between forest, mountain and desert, past and present, the painter-sculptor Flavio Paolucci creates works where dreams and poetry meet.

A Canton Ticino family goes up for the weekend to the house in the mountains where the father spent his childhood. The journey to the valley, suffered at intervals by his wife and children, is an obsessive ritual for Alfredo, repeated week after week as he searches for his past.

This film on Renzo Ferrari is not a biography, but rather a kind of biographic spy, based on hints found in his paintings, like associations, objects, sculptures, shadows and signs. The paintings selected for this production are from his 2000-2003 collection and are rich in strong socio-political references, from migrants and their countries to multi-ethnic elements and peculiar characters, like Gaio, who is neither man nor woman. No experts, no friends, no critics, just his paintings and the visual and sound elements they express. I have known Renzo Ferrari for decades and have followed his exhibits in Ticino and in Northern Italy. The perspective chosen for this film is that of a fiction novel, a biographical journey through Renzo Ferrari's paintings. The film shows the areas in Milan (Italy) where Renzo Ferrari lives. It shows his atelier, small drawings in his agenda, scribbled notes in his diary, but also the forest around Cadro (near Lugano, Switzerland), his outdoor Bateau-Lavoir, with curtains swaying in the wind, his small atelier in Ticino. I also used some archive material, photographies, excerpts from other films and newspapers, and posters from past exhibits. All this is mixed together with sound material, with African music - which he often listens to when at work - with quotations from films and of sentences in French, literature, philosophy and arts history, sounds from the subway in Milan and from New York; cities, which have much inspired him. Renzo Ferrari is a "border" artist.

A journey between present and past, full of testimonies and reflections to recount the writer Mario Rigoni Stern (1921-2008) on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. Over the course of a day, from dawn to starry night, Stern's voice recalls the years of war and imprisonment. The Alpine soldiers' sergeant, who returned home, became in time the guardian of the Asiago plateau and his homeland takes on the value of a world to be preserved against wars and indifference. Leading the narration of the documentary is the voice of the writer himself, recorded on many occasions throughout his life. Starting with the last years and travelling backwards, the writer recalls the war, imprisonment and the return home, ending at the time of the publication of 'Sergeant in the Snow' (1953), the book that marked the beginning of his career. To respect this personal narrative, we sought out testimonies from the writer's private life. This includes friends from the theatre, film and music, as well as people associated with collaborations of which the writer left documentation. Symbolically, the story takes place over the course of a day on the Asiago Plateau, from dawn to starry night. In fact, many locations in the Asiago basin that Stern used to frequent, from the historic center of Asiago to the Marcésina plain to Mount Zebio, are portrayed in the different seasons. But among the archive material and footage shot for the occasion, other places in the story take us to Val d'Aosta, where young Mario's adventure as an Alpine soldier began in 1938. And then to Albania and Russia where he fought and experienced the harsh retreat of the ARMIR. Finally in Austria, at the Präbichl pass, in search of the Lager where he put his notes in order and resumed writing the 'Sergeant' and in Switzerland, in Val Bavona, a place emblematic of his ideal relationship between man and nature.

Ettore Castiglioni, a great Italian mountaineer and a restless soul, found a new mission by escorting war refugees to the Swiss border. The pursuit of absolute freedom will guide him towards his last mysterious challenge in Switzerland.

At the end of Val Rovana (1400m) in Ticino, Switzerland there are two little villages, Campo Vallemaggia and Cimalmotto. Thirty years ago there were a thousand inhabitants. Today there are about fifty. Recently, there has been a certain revival of interest in the area.

Paul, a door-to-door salesman, struggles - with a smile - to sell his food containers. In fact, his life resembles the preserved foods they hold: hermetically sealed off from the exterior world. One day, a singular event will force him to come out of his plastic box.

A film about the journey from adolescence to adulthood, about growing self-awareness, about the lonely choices of dreams and fears, successes and failures.

The film treats the problem of Italian workers crossing daily the border at the southern part of Switzerland, the problems of foreign workers who earn their living in Switzerland but can't live there.

Giovanni Boggini is a mountaineer living in the Greina Alps in Switzerland. He makes cheese and butter using the traditional wood-fire caldera method. But since 2001 production processes have had to be modernized in in order to comply with EU standards. This documentary follows the different stages of cheese making while at the same time focusing on the cheese maker's dedication and love despite the difficulties created by modernization.

This documentary tells the story of Maurice Bavaud, who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1941.

The film is about two artists: one from the mountains, the Italian-Swiss architect Mario Botta who built a chapel, and the other, the Italian painter: Enzo Cucchi, a man of the sea who painted the frescoes in the chapel, up to 70 meters.