99 Moons
Everything is under control, she thinks. Everything is lost, he thinks. And then they meet. And fall.
Ale
19-year-old Alessandra is a wrestling student. As a newbie, her goal is to develop a so-called “gimmick” for herself. A ring character of her own, which should become very similar…
Loulou
Nathan was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Now he’s better, before he was much worse. He films himself, his relatives at the hospital, his bipolar best friend, his father, his sister,…
Switzerlanders
A cinematic time capsule with over 1,400 hours of submitted material from all regions of Switzerland gives unknown insights about the life of Swiss people in the politically and socially…
Platzspitzbaby
Spring 1995 – after the closure of the Needle Park and the public drug scene in Zurich, eleven-year-old Mia and her heroin addicted mother Sandrine are relocated to the countryside….
Madame
Madame takes us onto an intimate journey where Caroline, a flamboyant 90-year-old grandmother and her filmmaker grandson Stephane explore the development and transmission of gender identity in a patriarchal environment….
Open Season
As CFO, Alexander Meier fights for the survival of the long-established Walser company – dutifully, quickly and perfectionist to the point of self-abandonment. When Hans-Werner Brockmann, an unscrupulous top manager,…
One-way to Moscow
30 years ago, Switzerland was shaken by a scandal that seems to have already been forgotten: more than 900,000 people were surveilled because of their political convictions. Against the backdrop…
Paul Nizon: Der Nagel im Kopf
The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzerland, who became what “he was meant to be” in Paris. Now 90-year-old,…
Cody – the dog days are over
A feature length documentary about the human – animal relationship. We are telling the story of the Romanian stray dog Cody, who happened to turn things upside down for a…
Mario Botta. Architecture and Memory
The film arose from an encounter with Mario Botta during the 2013 Architecture and Memory exhibit held at the Charlotte, North Carolina Bechtler Museum of Modern Art which was designed…
The Hunt
At dawn, in the wilderness, a wolf pack hunts to feed. But the prey, a stag, will not be caught so easily. The hunt quickly becomes strange.
Ximei
Twenty years after China’s scandalous “Black Blood Economy,” when a million Chinese citizens were infected with HIV and countless died from AIDS, thousands of rural peasants still suffer the consequences,…
Amen Saleikum – Fröhliche Weihnachten
L’instant infini
O Fim do Mundo
Spira comes home from a juvenile detention center and reconnects with his loved ones in Reboleira (Lisbon), a slum on the verge of being destroyed. Kikas makes it clear that…
All Cats Are Grey in the Dark
He calls himself Catman. Christian lives with his two cats Marmelade and Katjuscha. They are inseparable. As he yearns to become a father, he has his beloved Marmelade fertilized by…
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
The film explores the vision behind the iconic American jazz record label. Since 1939, Blue Note artists have been encouraged to push creative boundaries in search of uncompromising expressions. Through…
Love Me Tender
Suffering from agoraphobia, Seconda is unable to leave her house. When she finally succeeds, new challenges push her limits even further.
Wolkenbruchs wunderliche Reise in die Arme einer Schickse
The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage candidate after the other. Unfortunately none…
Mario
Two young gay soccer players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love.
Tscharniblues II
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…
Chris the Swiss
Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war, a young journalist’s body is discovered dressed in the uniform of an international mercenary group. Twenty years later, his…
Cronofobia
A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity.
Midnight Runner
Jonas Widmer, one of the best runners in Switzerland, is focussed on participating in the Olympic games. Besides sports, Jonas is also a successful cook and plans to move in…
Zama
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto. Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the 17th century settled in Asunción, awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Blade of the Immortal
The film follows a warrior cursed with immortality who must defeat 1,000 evil men to free himself.