Bernard Rambert, one of Switzerland's best-known lawyers, talks for the first time in detail about his work as a criminal defence lawyer, places it in the historical context of the last 50 years as a contemporary witness and draws a bow to the present. What is the balance sheet of a person who has spent his entire life fighting for radical change through legal means?
Music students and refugees adapt the biblical story of EXODUS to the present day.
In a place and time not unlike ours, resources are scarce and people fearful.
As the daughter of an outsider, Skalde has worked hard to become part of the community.
When she one day finds a strange child in the woods, Skalde has to take sides.
The family business demands their full attention: renting, selling and repairing excavators. But when the daughter dies, the family idyll falls apart at the seams. A new Heimatfilm with people searching and machines dancing.
The Social-Democratic Party and the trade unions shaped the Swiss working-class culture for over 100 years, but in the early 1970s many of these institutions collapsed in just a decade. Today, no one speaks of the working class anymore. And the term "worker" has become synonymous with "foreigner." How did this come about?
The forgotten story of a young Ticino militant who came into contact with notorious participants of the armed struggle from the 1970s onwards and disappeared without trace.
Autumn 1977: the Bernese officer trainee Flükiger is found dead. Who is to blame for his death? The RAF or the Béliers, was it an accident or intentional? The director goes in search of clues and tries to shed light on the mysterious events surrounding the vote to form the Canton Jura.
The interactive Roadmovie follows the trail of a convicted war criminal with ties to Switzerland. On a journey through contemporary Rwanda, the viewers decide how deeply they want to immerse themselves in the story.
One afternoon a polite young boy, Elio, meets his tutor's secret lover. When he confides in her, sharing an even bigger secret, she's convinced he's joking and bursts out laughing.
The graphic designer Stefanie is in a creative crisis. Boring advertising assignments and a boss who does not value her work. On a visit to a museum, she is magically attracted by the satirical photomontages of the world-famous colleague and Nazi opponent John Heartfield. Then the miracle happens. She ends up in his studio, where she finally picks up scissors and paper again. An adventurous journey through Heartfield's extraordinary life 100 years ago begins.
Insight into the coexistance of humans and amimals, picked up at the example of the cow and inspired by true stories, implimented using unique animations.
Maëlys is a real junior detective: she sees investigations everywhere! Her friend Lucien, a little less.... but he would follow Maëlys everywhere!
An female family saga from the inside of Modernism, told by the women in the haze of the iconic architect Mies van der Rohe.
Maria is pregnant. Her husband Giorgio is sterile. Unable to communicate, they drift away from each other, attracted by unlikely romances.
The rugged mountain valley of Bregaglia brought forth an entire dynasty of artists: the Giacomettis. Director Susanna Fanzun traces the footsteps of this remarkable family.
Giulia is the smallest in her class and is getting bullied by her classmates everyday. She mostly ignores the attacks, but sometimes it's hard to keep calm. Luckily she has friends who she can rely on.
Flurin's life in the rural idyll and his escape into the world - a farmer's boy on his journey to himself.
Moha, a 19-year-old Afghan, fled to Switzerland with her family five years ago. Here she has a chance for a good life and can pursue her passion: dancing. She is searching for an apprenticeship, but again and again she is told that her German is not good enough. But Moha won't give up.
Catzilla introduces us to the diverse roller derby community and recounts how the sport helped her overcome personal and social obstacles.
Since her worldwide success of "Fear of Flying", Erica Jong has been fighting for equality, with imagination, humour and the power of her words.
Rolf, a hemiplegic, spends his days dozing on a sofa bed in his dusty apartment. On TV, he learns of a deadly pandemic sweeping around the globe. While the world around him is falling to pieces, he gleefully watches along on TV. When his nurse stops visiting, Rolf realizes that his survival is anything but certain.
Happiness seems complete when Judith, her 6-year-old daughter Milla and her assistant, former drug addict Gabriel, get together on the remote fish farm in the Bernese Jura. But then Milla tragically dies in a robbery and the idyll is shattered.
What happens when roles reverse and parents suddenly become dependent on their children? A son is forced to confront this question along with the consequences of his migration.
With the Russian annexation of Crimea, the Ukrainian Paralympic team loses their training base overnight. Will they succeed in qualifying for the upcoming Paralympics under these difficult circumstances?
Paolo Piangino is a very happy man. Because he can cry. He cries at stories with sad endings, but also at stories with happy endings. Paolo's tears make people happy too: they can gather his happiness. But they can't hold on to it. A touching puppet animation based on the successful Swiss children's book ?Paolos Glück?.
Two undocumented delivery boys in New York want to be loved by a mysterious Croatian girl while their mother is persuaded by a pulp fiction novelist to start a burrito empire from their Bronx kitchen. The American Dream becomes a trap when deportation looms.
A film about the economic rise of the small Swiss town of Zug, which rose from a farming village to an internationally known trading center thanks to its cunning tax policy.
The Shiite revolution creates tension within an Iranian family. The daughter of a secular father and a devout mother tells the story of how they all co-exist under one roof through photos and fictional conversations.
When she was young, MARIA abandoned her newborn daughter at a baby window. Decades later, she meets Caroline for the first time.
A failed author, a wife in hiding, a clandestine gay IT-specialist meet in an Iraqi café in London. Incited by a radical Sheik, the author's nephew attacks them and turns their lives upside down.
When Muslims are shown in the media, they are portrayed as the bad guys. How then is it to be explained that every year, over a hundred Swiss people convert to Islam?
Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the Yugoslav Wars, a young journalist is found dead, dressed in the uniform of an international mercenary group. Twenty years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel investigates his story
The wealthy village of Oberwil-Lieli refuses to take in any refugees. Can Switzerland no longer afford its humanitarian tradition?
In the early 1920s a prolific inventor, Jacques Bolsey, put motion-picture cameras into the hands of amateur filmmakers. Decades later, the dramatic life of the mysterious Renaissance man is uncovered.
Stephan Eicher and many folk musicians are connected by their Yenish roots and the secret of a special sound. A musical journey into the Grison mountains.
The russian revolutionary year narrated from the point of view of the involved artists.
Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed's assistance when the Syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife. Together they stumble into a bewildering forest of Swiss bureaucracy to which Roli finds a beautifully simple answer.
A Swiss sailing yacht encounters a boatload of refugees in the Mediterranean. Some of the refugees who manage to board the yacht take control. But the Swiss call for help from the coast guard and realise too late that this was a mistake...
While managers of Swiss banks in the USA ruefully apologize for their tax evasions practices and customer data is disclosed to the American authorities, Rudolf Elmer, former auditor at bank Julius Bär, is indicted for violating the Swiss banking secrecy law on the Cayman Islands. Rudolf Elmer: from insider to critic.
Insurance salesman Vincent Baumann turns into a victim of the very corporations he is representing.
The Price of Truth is a dual portrait of two whistleblowers. Margrit Zopfi and Sherron Watkins informed the public about the financial fraud taking place at their workplace and paid a high price for revealing the truth.
A sick doctor, a volatile code, the comfort of art: the search for the origins of his depression poses existential questions to the protagonist of the film, confronts him with worrying perspectives for his future and leads him into breathtaking visual and aural worlds.
After her mother decides that eighteen-year-old mentally disabled Dora no longer has to take sedating drugs, the young woman begins to blossom. But when pleasure-loving Dora discovers her sexuality her strive for independence becomes increasingly risky. Her mother struggles to protect her: the family is threatened to fall apart.
Angry bearded men, veiled women, demolished cities: Iraq, as seen through the eyes of the western media. What happened to the enlightened society of the 1950s and 1960s? How did it come to this? A globalized middle-class Iraqi family in diaspora speaks.
A film about Ulrich Seidl and his work, taking his two most recent projects as the starting point. The documentary film «Im Keller (In the basement)« and the play «Böse Buben (Bad boys)«.
The sequel to "Un Franco, 14 Pesetas" - the Spanish migrants return to Switzerland in 1974 as tourists.
Giorgio's poor parents sell their son to Milan to work as a chimney sweeper. There he joins the «Black Brothers».
A conversation with Alexander J. Seiler about his lifework as a film author.
As the daughter of a former communist, the young director visits the interfaces of revolt, where communities attempt to realise utopia in concrete terms.
Jan Guler is meant to make it to the very top in tennis. An entire family's life revolves around this dream.
The young author Ada and the aging screen star Nino are involuntarily trapped in a luxury hotel. To kill time, they engage in amusing and bizarre role-playing. It becomes a special night for both of them, in which questions are posed that they otherwise would never have asked. Intimacy arises from a chance encounter. They part at dawn and the night has made them not only an experience richer.
Iris & Peter von Roten are likely the most famous, provocative and beautiful couple in Swiss history: their story is full of political and moral opposition. A love story comparable to that of Beauvoir and Sartre's.
In 1978, the members of a small revolutionary group break into a Swiss bank near Zurich. They film the entirety of the action so as to prove the collusion between the Swiss financial system and dictators. The police and the bank deny everything. 30 years later, the tapes of the «Opération Libertad» resurface...
In an abandoned motel the paths of six protagonists cross each other. A tangled story, which creates a mystery and does not provide all the answers.
Avi Mograbi's family has lived between the three countries of Lebanon, Palestine and Israel for generations and witnessed the strife since the founding of the State of Israel: immigration to Israel, espionage charges, the two Lebanon Wars in 1982 and 2006, as well as the construction of the Israeli barrier. How to carry forward when you are rooted on both sides of the wall? Avi Mograbi researches the Arab side of his family, seeking a new approach to life in the Middle East and dreaming the forbidden dream. A discussion revolving around interpretations - and not facts.
A homage to Augusto Boal, the inventor of the "Theatre of the Oppressed", and his impact to the present day.
Sascha is a troublesome teenager living in a conservative village. To earn him some money he works in the forest. Here he stumbles upon a small hut in which neo-nazis gather secretly. Before long he finds a new family and a new, shocking direction in life.
He was a student activist, an urban guerrilla, a taxi driver; Joseph Joschka Fischer emerged from the Extra-parliamentary Opposition (APO) to become Hessens trainer-clad environment minister and Germanys suited and booted foreign minister.
Stephanie Glaser in her last major role as a renitent mystery author who, together with her grandson, foils the plans of a murderer.
At the end of their lives, a wealthy couple ponders over life and death. After fifty years together, they decide to leave - not because they have to, but because they want to.
Karl Geiser (1898-1957): Swiss sculptor, drawer and photographer. Torn between a great love for life and profound self-doubts he died a solitary wolf. A portrait about a forgotten artist with a vulcanic temperament who was called «the geyser» by his friends.
A film about young Yenish gypsies who live their culture among the settled populace in spite of many obstacles. It tries to answer the question as to why more and more young Swiss gypsies are on the road again and what their future looks like. The film accompanies Pascal, Miranda, Jeremy, and Franziska who are between 17 and 25 years old and travelling in their own mobile homes.
«L'ange protecteur», the art sculpture by Nikki de Saint-Phalle of Zurich's main station, ponders on art, architecture and urban development. Beside interviews with the architects, ordinary workmen and employees report on their work in Switzerland's biggest train station.
David Sieveking walks on David Lynch's path into the world of transcendental meditation (TM). He comes across the founder of this worldwide movement, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, to whom the Beatles already pilgrimed.
Uta has a date. She likes him and she wants to get to know him better. With the help of Italian wine and chips the ice melts. Hans however, has a serious disadvantage: his heart does not beat for her.
One last piece of South America belongs to Europe: French Guyana, where the native Wayna Indians live in an almost paradisiacal world. But criminal gold diggers occupy and pollute the land with mercury, through their primitive extraction techniques.
Set some time in the undeterminable past: Emily is sent to work and live in the sovereign's castle. She manages to escape into the woods where she meets some lively hookers. Together they become «Robber Girls», taking a stand and fighting the patriarchy.
In an abandoned hotel a lonely man holds his little doll-like girl captured in a small box. Amongst a flowered tapestry she dances day and night. Tom, a young man, finds the hotel and soon discovers the little box with Maria in it. A love-story unfolds.
The film tells the adventurous story of an Arab-Swiss music project, of the search for nuances in times of the clash of cultures between the orient and the occident that is cited from all sides.
A bear is on the loose in Valbensa. A German bear expert finds herself in a clinch with the local Swiss authorities and the resident big game hunter.
In a remote holiday cottage, Luis meets his father and his new family after many years. Conflict is pre-programmed.
Eva, from East Germany is out of work. To her surprise the unemployment office send her to the Swiss Alps, to work on a Swiss mountain farm for the summer. Besides some curious cows she meets the stubborn Farmer, who is more than willing to get married: and an illegal worker from the Balkans, who is dead-set on getting a German passport.
A German student falls in love with a Cuban captain and follows him to the Caribbean. Knowing little about sex she becomes the official sex educator of Castro's revolution.
A film about potent female agitators, staunch machos and Caribbean love life.
The young development aid volunteer Leila is sent by order of the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) to Liberia in Western Africa. She is assigned to reunite parents with their children who got separated from their families during the war. The documentary broaches the issue of the dilemma between humanitarian help and the given power structure.
Cape Town 1967. Womanizer Christian Barnard transplants the first human heart, but behind him stood an unknown black man: Hamilton Naki
SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK exposes the immorality of international companies doing business with the dictatorship of oil-and-gas-rich Turkmenistan, thus helping to hide its human rights and free speech abuses - all in the name of profit and corporate greed.
An apprentice pressured by his jealous girlfriend. Two perspiring gentlemen surrounden by complex numbers, the wheelchair-bound visionary and his mute butler. And at the centre of it all: the infernal machine. If only all clocks would tick at the same time...
Studer is chasing a child murderer who has been unnerving the area for months.
Investment banker HP has allegedly ridden out the crash of the stock exchange. One evening, during a barbecue with his banker friends and their wives, HP?s Danish au-pair threatens to blow the whistle on her love affair with HP?s married boss. HP wants to please everyone. The next morning, however, he has lost everything: his house, his wife, his friends, and his job.
Ruža left Serbia, her home country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops between the two strong willed women.
Ruth Seiler founded the boarding school ?Schlössli? for young people from difficult backgrounds.
Women beneath the acacias. Thanks to the forests of Kenya, the women of the Kitui group have a regular income.
One weekend, Therese Karlen, wife and mother, spontaneously breaks out of the daily grind and leaves her cheeky teenage daughter Melanie and her son Valentin to her genial but totally overwhelmed husband Alois. She goes on a journey through Switzerland and her inner self with Liselotte, an elderly lady.
A father's search for forgiveness by revisiting the places, emotions and mistakes of the past, looking for reasons and hope for redemption. A tragedy of love told in the present, the past and the surreal.
In 1982 between 1,000 and 3,000 civilians were murdered in the two Lebanese Palestinian camps Sabra and Shatila. The perpetrators primarily originated from the ranks of the Forces Libanaises, a Christian militia affiliated to Israel.
A psycho-political study of the phenomenon of collective violence.
A video about Neo-Nazis originating in Sweden provides the starting point of an investigation of extremists' networks in Europe, Russia and North America. Their propaganda is a message of hatred, war and segregation.
In 1976 a reactor close to the north Italian town of Seveso explodes. In the aftermath highly poisonous dioxin leaks into the atmosphere. In Monza in 1983 chemist Jörg Sambeth is sentenced to five years in prison as one of the main guilty parties. A story about lies, truths and deception.
The luxury girl Nico falls in love with the rapper Paco from the suburbs. She entangles herself in lies and slithers into drug abuse.
History and present of a heretical company.A film about a great publisher,a big Italian publishing house and about the passion for books: to discovery, develop and publish literature. «To change the world with books.»
Ernst Sieber, 78, is a well-known priest to the homeless in Switzerland. In the spring of 2005 Sieber travels to the village of Djagatu in Afghanistan, where he is met by a white donkey that was given to him three years earlier in thanks for medical aid he provided. His plan: to bring the donkey and 25 orphans from Djagatu back to Switzerland - a dangerous undertaking with an uncertain outcome.
Resin means money and a stable environment. A film about the forests of Indonesia.
Visions are the source of hope. Here in the form of keeping the forests of Ecuador.
Karim is firmly convinced of being an extraterrestrial. The search for his origins turns out to be an adventurous odyssey through the Patwa galaxy.
A portrait of people who don't let political and social stumbling blocks upset their way to an independent and unified Republic of Cyprus.
Just as Lolo, a gay Italian-Secondo, is getting ready to spend a romantic evening with his lover, his Italian Nonna makes an unexpected appearance.
Can a blind man bring the spirit of Che Guevara back to life? A film about the history of special old American cars, love and the man whose face shows the two side.
Zurich narcotics detective Herbert Straehl is a pill-popping choleric detoxifying from love. During his attempt to arrest a prominent Albanian drug pusher, René and Carol, a junkie couple, thwart him. When Straehl loses his job he suddenly finds himself caught in the two junkie's mercy. But Straehl doesn't give up...
Portrait of the 12-year old Somalian asylum seeker Muridi, who lives in Zürich. In his school he is one of the few 'Peacemaker' activists, who mediate in violent disputes. He tells stories from his life in Swiss German.
A look behind the scenes of the toughest cycling race in the world on the occasion of the 100the anniversary of the Tour de France.
A fascinating road movie tracing history and origin of a subculture of youth that is known as one of the most radical and contradictory of our time.
13-year old Sandra is new to the neighbourhood and desperately unhappy. Nadja and her cool gang don't give her a chance. Only when Sandra meets Mike, things seem to look up. But just as they are slowly getting to know each other, they discover that Mike's mother has an affair with a stranger. Mike is horrified. And Sandra panics: She doesn't know how to tell Mike that the lover is her father...
Marilyn, a reluctant, overweight hairdresser, is in danger of being suffocated by her eventless life. The salon lacks customers and her unhappy affair with the village macho stops her from seeing her true talent: Marilyn can sing!
Thousands of migrants who, by dint of rubber boats, illegally cross the straits between Morocco and Spain, change a landscape and its inhabitants.
Culture has long been quietly influenced by globalization. Language as a harbinger, a catalyst, but also as an obstacle in multi-cultural modern society.
On the occasion of Expo.02, Sabine Gisiger accompanies five foreigners on their journey through our homeland.
The Engadine off the beaten path of luxurious mass tourism, with extraordinary atmospheric pictures from the four seasons. Accompanied by an excursus on the international films that have made use of this landscape.
A filmic reflection about the stereotypes of "the Jew" and "the Arab" through one hundred years of film, linked with the biographies of four extraordinary people: Iraqi-Jewish communists.
30 year old Charlotte is dominated by her mother. When she becomes unemployed, she tries to break out of this relationship. She falls in love unhappily. After different suicide attempts she becomes bedridden. Now she is bound to her mother more than before. A tragic grotesqueness.
A.K.A. BIRDSEYE is the saga of an obsessive Colorado sheriff and his trusting teenage son, who risk it all when their twisted reconstruction of a mysterious kidnapping case escalates into a dangerous hunt for a mythical Swiss criminal.
A gentle portrait by the famous German-Swiss-Austrian Hollywood actor Maximilian Schell about his no less famous sister Maria. The film parades over 70 cinema films and pursues a biography of success, affairs, depressions, and chases through the tabloid scene.
Drawing manga-style comics is Angela's passion. Hungry for adventure, she spontaneously flies to Tokyo to work as a hostess. The city instantly casts its spell on her and Angela plunges into a dark story of cruelty and murder, of naïve young European women swallowed up into the brightly lit nights of downtown Tokyo.
A boy of Bosnian refugees and a Swiss girl fall in love. The initial benevolence of their parents soon turns into insurmountable hate as the cultural opposites between the two families become more and more apparent.
Erika and Ruedi have been married for many years and also plan to end their lives together. Erika has cancer and wants to die in dignity. Ruedi doesnt want to live without his wife. Everything is organized - but suddenly Ruedi isnt so sure anymore...
A spurned lover can see only one possibility for uniting with her lover: kill and devour.
The aircraft carrier Kiev, former pride of the soviet marine, lies abandoned in a North Sea port and awaits its destiny.
Police Commissioner Claudia Studer has hardly started her new job when she is called to the Sommerfeld psychiatric clinic to solve a complicated murder.
In the 1970's and 1980's, Marco Camenisch made national headlines. In the struggle against the destruction of his homeland, he resorted to bombs and violence, and became a legend.
The Jewish scrap metal dealer Epstein and his friend Adam Rose meet their old SS tormentor.
The tiny village Peiden slides down the slope. Just four dwelling houses are inhabited the whole year. The rest is unoccupied. The artist Mattias Caduff investigates in the village of his ancestors.
Europe in 12 days including visits to six countries. This is a standard package offered by Japanese travel agencies. After the whistle-stop tour, the main souvenir the tourists are left with are photographs. What view do these photos reveal?
An unusual documentation of the narration «Conversation in the mountains» by Paul Celan from 1959 - at the same time an intelligent controversy on the problematic relation between film and literature.
Thirteen-year-old Nadja is spending her summer vacation at home. She is bored to death until a new tenant moves in with whom she falls madly in love. But what she doesn't know yet: he is her mother's new boyfriend.
In the 1990s, a group of young Serbian women living in New York City watched along with the rest of the world as the former Yugoslavia dissolved into bloody war and ethnic violence. An actress, a painter and three classically trained musicians, had come to New York to study and pursue their art, but now, not only are they expatriates, but the homeland they knew no longer exists.
In Burma, where spirit worship has survived both the triumph of Buddhism and the vagaries of a military dictatorship, a lively cult peopled by talented mediums, many of them homosexuals, makes life under one of the worlds harshest regimes more bearable.
A video adaptation of Samir's stage play. A grotesque on the electronic media and their outgrowth.
A parable about present American culture explain The bomb airplane B-52 that symbolizes the dominance of the United States about the world.
The young Turk Emine experiences emotional highs and lows in a Swiss transitional home.
The autobiography Bruchstücke (Fragments) appears successful in the trade in 1995. Three years later, the false identity of the author is revealed.
Meriç's father is abducted by the secret police. Traumatised by this event, Meriç searches for possible explanations and comes to believe that his father has been stolen by thieves. In his imagination, he brings his father back and hides him in the cellar.
With IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN, documentary filmmaker Martina Kudlácek has fashioned not only fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking and influential artist, but a pitch-perfect introduction to her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work.
Cattle dealer Levi wants to do business in a little Black Forest village and wants to seduce a woman. It is 1935, however, and it's the beginning of an era which he will not survive as ?Levi the Jew'.
Based on a book by Thomas Strittmatter.
A Tibetan family who has lived in exile in the Engadine for 35 years considers its history and its presence in the media. A portrait.
A dream wedding in a shopping mall turns into a nightmare for the managers involved. Jeanne Berthoud observes how a PR concept results in unexpected problems and cynical solutions.
What happens when a Jew, to whom all Arabs are terrorists, meets a Palestinian woman, to whom all Jews are land robbers and murderers? Exactly! A comedy with teeth.
With the help of a smuggler, a group of illegal immigrants attempt to leave France on a cargo ship headed for Canada. They succeed in sneaking into a container which is deposited at the bottom of the ship's hold.
Based on the book Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski. Daniel Ganzfrieds inquiries later led to the uncovering of Wilkomirskis story as a shame.
The tale tells the story of a ittle girl looking for help.
He hadn't expected to meet such an exceptional woman. He flees, but she follows him.
Via regional music and rituals of the German speaking area's southern border, the film approaches the question of cultural identity.
American Noel Field was a key player in the trials following the World War Two in Eastern Europe. He was secretly imprisoned between 1949 and 1955, but remained in Hungary after his release. What was the secret of Noel Field?
In Egypt in the 30' Lorna makes her dream come true. She replaces her traditional clothes with a pilot's uniform. The film follows her couragous life.
When one begins to understand that social injustice, racism and hatred exist, one turns to Jean Ziegler's books. In this film he traces a double portrait: his own, and the world's.
The story of three women from the Maghreb region. The film describes how, caught between tradition and modernity, the three women struggle to master their lives and their relationships with men.
A fictitious Japanese film team makes a documentary about the Street Parade of 1996, with a look back at how it all began.
Six women from four generations look back on their lives in Moscow, covering the period between the birth of the Sowjet Union and its dissolving.
What do we know about orthodox judaism? It has become an icon in black and white.
This documentary is about the everyday life of the living people.
A multifaceted and personal portrait of the famous painter, who wanted the revolution to happen in art as well as society.
Ten portraits of people who have left their homes to find a new one far away.
A film about the deep fall following quick fame.
Samirs personal view of the Gulf War in a video sequence.
Pipilotti Rist tries to visualize the sexual perception.
The political activist Claude is shot. While in the realm of the dead he falls in love with the hairdresser Dodo. They only have 12 hours.
A short film designed by Samir upon invitation of 10vor10 (news magazine of SF DRS) about the hip-hop scene in Switzerland.
Alexander J. Seiler charts the political debate about the Swiss army: from official ceremonies to the popular vote, and including all the official discussions that have taken place all over the country. Alongside, the film follows a production of Max Frisch's play Jonas und sein Veteran, directed by Benno Besson, from early rehearsals to the first performances, and gathers reactions from both the theater audience and major political personalities.
A warning against genetic manipulation and its consequences in the year 2018.
A communist guerrilla commander, a Swiss railway worker, a catholic priest and the Swiss secret service successfully prevented the destruction of the tunnel.
A videocomic with a silly detective, philosophizing billiard balls and the beautiful client Mrs. Wunderlin.
A painter lives in a lopsided house. Visual realisation of an abnormal normality. With paintings of the lead and artist Marie-Therese Huber.
Until shortly before his death, Ludwig Hohl was an outsider, at best an insider tip in Swiss literature. Alexander J. Seiler's film grew out of a long-standing friendship between the film author and the writer. Shot mainly in Hohl's flat in Geneva in the summer of 1979, it shows the most important stages in Hohl's biography with the most economical means and otherwise lets Hohl speak for himself.
Who is the man whom Sister Klara admits to hospital after finding him half dead on the country road, and who thankfully kisses her hand? A little-known novella by Friedrich Glauser, transposed into the present as a modern fairy tale from the 1930s.
The documentary from 1964 marks the beginning of the New Swiss Cinema. For the first time, the focus is on migrants: Italian workers who were perceived as a ?problem? in Switzerland at the time.
In 12 restless minutes, magical metamorphoses of water flow into one another in a single, winding wave movement: the shape of the film is derived from the essence of its object.
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