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- A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
- 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.
- On the shores of Lake Geneva, teenager Margaux meets a 7-year-old foster child and a young fisherman in his thirties. The trio find themselves torn between attraction, disappointment and the desire to escape.
- 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 long-married couple turns to a therapist for help as they make an attempt to stimulate their love life.
- Jonas, once a successful writer, is stuck. A separation involving a child has left him depressed and wallowing in self-pity. To survive, he has to give writing courses for beginners. But his mood turns abruptly when the charming Gina shows up in his course. Jonas falls in love with her energy and spontaneity and wants to help her write a book. But in doing so he saddles himself with even bigger problems... "Der Frosch" is a both funny and sad, self-mocking and warm-hearted movie about overcoming life's crises.
- 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.
- Brunaupark, Zurich: 5 residential complexes, 405 flats. A bank is planning new buildings and has cancelled half of the flats. While many leave, some hold out. The film observes their uncertainty and the transformation of this living space.
- RIDER JACK - Jack is afraid of remembering, his father of forgetting.
- Since 1886, there has been a weather-station master at the summit of the mountain. He telegraphs his daily measurements into the valley from where they are transmitted to Rome, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.
- An authentically political, theatrical and cinematic New Gospel for the 21st century.
- '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.
- Rahel Hubli is employed as a civil registrar. She hasn't believed in the so-called "love of her life" in ages. But when a childhood friend, Ben, suddenly turns up, Rahel recalls again what it felt like to be in love. And that leads to even more problems, because Rahel is already married. And Ben would like to get married: by Rahel.
- True story about George Mandel, a high-profile minister in the pre-war 3rd French republic. As a wealthy member of the bourgeoisie, he is treated with disdain by the left, while he is held in even lower esteem by the right because he is Jewish. Once the Germans march into France in 1940, his position becomes even more precarious.
- Adrien, 70 years old, is living in the Swiss Alps, up in the mountain. He leaves then with a couple of friends on a long train ride until China. One can learn from life at all ages.
- What happens when suddenly everyone falls asleep and you are the only one staying awake? Ten-year-old Nicki made this experience completely involuntarily
- Gertrud (89) has only one thing in mind when she smiles at the man online, even though she has no memory of doing so: to determine the final stages of her life herself before winding up in the dementia ward. But neither her end-of-life therapist or her family nor her suitor can be coaxed into honouring her request.
- After thirty years of living abroad, Franz Engi returns to his hometown. A lot of things have changed over the years. There are only very few families with children left in the village and that is why the school is about to be closed down. Franz decides to save the school and teacher Eva's job in a very unusual way: He maintains he never had the time to go to school when he was a child and is claiming his "right to education" now. Franz, the "new kid in town", sets the ball rolling in Sternenberg. Apart from saving the school , Franz's relationship with Eva has another, completely different purpose, because Franz has a secret...
- A 12 year old girl regularly writes letters to Brad Pitt telling him about the boring life in the province, her unnerving sister and her clumsy father.
- Driven by strange desire a loner is fatally attracted to two sisters. A Neo Noir.
- Lisa, the daughter of ordinary people, has won a scholarship for an elite boarding school and is supposed to go to school there in a few weeks and do her high school diploma. But bad news throws a spanner in the works: Lisa is pregnant.
- In reality Emil (Philippe Graber) and Larissa (Emilie Welti) would never have been a couple she is an idolized singer, he is a shy outsider. Ironically, Emil is just getting to know Larissa when she dies unexpectedly. He pretends to have been her boyfriend and finally gets the recognition he has always yearned for, with the added bonus of a surrogate family in the form of Larissas. Things would be just great if Emil didnt fall in love - with Larissas sister Nora (Johanna Bantzer). The more he gets to know her, the harder it becomes for him to pretend
- 1969, the first winter after the violent end of the Spring of Prague: 13-year-old Hannah and her crazy young parents land as though on a completely different planet in the German economic wonderland.
- La Gravidité describes the moment when a young woman realizes the responsibility her body brings and her struggle to accept it.
- Eli tries to escape the narrowness and agitation of the city, while her rage starts to build up.
- Two young men from Zurich want to make the big deal by driving two cars from Zurich to Cairo.
- 20 years of atrocities due to greed claimed the lives of over 6 million people in Congo. Milo Rau collects details from survivors and perpetrators. 3 trials were heard exposing one of the most horrific cases of inhumanity in world history.
- Asal and Zoe are best friends and spend their last summer together before their lives begin in earnest. Asal wants nothing more than to have a boyfriend and Zoe dreams of becoming a make-up artist. An inspiring coming of age story.
- During the shooting of a short documentary about a Swiss radio amateur Hans, Serbian director discovers that this elder man reminds him of his deceased grandfather. While Hans connects to the world by his radio, the present and the past, the near and the far areas merge together.
- From political exile in France, Breyten Breytenbach came to South Africa in 1972 on a special visit to introduce his wife, Yolande, to his family and to the country of his heart. On this trip he was informed by the South African state that he would no longer be accepted into the country after his return to France. In 1975, however, Breytenbach made an illegal entrance to South Africa to recruit members to an anti-apartheid movement being set up outside the country. The security police became aware of his presence in the country and he was caught, interrogated and imprisoned in isolation in Pretoria. This poignantly told (auto)biography reveals the pain and the beauty of the life of a South African visionary, as he returns to his beloved country to travel his landscape of memory.
- Mr. Goldstein is 93 years old and almost blind. He lives in an old people's home, where the young nurse Vera cares for him. One day he receives a letter from Emmi. She was his first love - and he has not seen her for over 60 years. In the beginning Mr. Goldstein does not want to touch this memory. He tries to ignore the letter. But then Vera gets him to write back and gradually the grumpy old man starts to reveal parts of his personality that have been locked away for a very long time.
- Erich Hirsch aka Surava was a journalist. He wrote about the deportation of French jews, and the Swiss government chased him because the Swiss government was Nazi-friendly. The Swiss intelligence service (Bundespolizei) knew him as a "communist jew". In fact, he worked for a left newspaper, but he wasn't a jew. Surava took his courage to write about the "censored" inhumanity in Europe.
- 10,000 miles from home, in the forests of Wintherthur, Switzerland, drawn to the men who hunt there, lingers the ghost of a dead father.
- Twelve year old Lila is new in town and becomes the star of the clique when she tells everyone that her father Paul is the fitness trainer of Princess Stephanie and enormously rich as well. This is not exactly true, but it sounds much better than telling them that he is physically handicapped, single and always short on money. But Paul also has his little secret... or does the young, attractive household help really come only to clean and iron?
- For more than ten years, Erwin Schatzmann has lived in a house-museum with his art. The film plunges us into his unique and extravagant universe where time and space are suspended, questioning the relationship he has with his work.
- Stranded in space for thirty years. How does it feel to finally come home? A reflection about migration and the sense of belonging.