MOVIES - FICTION
MILK TEETH
by Sophia BöschIn 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.
BAGGER DRAMA
by Piet BaumgartnerThe 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.
PERIPHERIC LOVE
by Luc WalpothMaria is pregnant. Her husband Giorgio is sterile. Unable to communicate, they drift away from each other, attracted by unlikely romances.
OF FISH AND MEN
by Stefanie KlemmHappiness 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.
THE SAINT OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
by Marc WilkinsTwo 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.
BAGHDAD IN MY SHADOW
by SamirA 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.
HIDDEN RESERVES
by Valentin HitzInsurance salesman Vincent Baumann turns into a victim of the very corporations he is representing.
DORA OR THE SEXUAL NEUROSES OF OUR PARENTS
by Stina WerenfelsAfter 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.
2 FRANCOS 40 PESETAS
by Carlos IglesiasThe sequel to "Un Franco, 14 Pesetas" - the Spanish migrants return to Switzerland in 1974 as tourists.
THE BLACK BROTHERS
by Xavier KollerGiorgio's poor parents sell their son to Milan to work as a chimney sweeper. There he joins the «Black Brothers».
THE RHINO AND THE DRAGONFLY
by Lola RandlThe 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.
ENEMIES IN LOVE
by Werner Schweizer, Katja FrühIris & 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.
OPERATION LIBERTAD
by Nicolas WadimoffIn 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...
SILVER FOREST
by Christine RepondSascha 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.
COLORS IN THE DARK
by Sophie HeldmanAt 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.
ROBBER GIRLS
by Carla Lia MontiSet 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.
GOING PRIVATE
by Stina WerenfelsInvestment 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.
FRAULEIN
by Andrea StakaRuža 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.
NICE WEEKEND
by Petra VolpeOne 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.
REMEMBER ANNA
by Walo DeuberA 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.
SNOW WHITE
by SamirThe luxury girl Nico falls in love with the rapper Paco from the suburbs. She entangles herself in lies and slithers into drug abuse.
STRÄHL
by Manuel Flurin HendryZurich 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...
LITTLE GIRL BLUE
by Anna Luif13-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...
MEIER MARILYN
by Stina WerenfelsMarilyn, 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!
A.K.A. BIRDSEYE
by Mike Huber, Stephen Beckner,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.
STRATOSPHERE GIRL
by Matthias X. ObergDrawing 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.
EPSTEIN'S NIGHT
by Urs EggerThe Jewish scrap metal dealer Epstein and his friend Adam Rose meet their old SS tormentor.
VIEHJUD LEVI
by Didi DanquartCattle 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.
CLANDESTINS
by Nicolas Wadimoff, Denis ChouinardWith 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.
HONEY AND ASHES
by Nadia FaresThe 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.
THE SIXTH CONTINENT
by Benno MaggiTen portraits of people who have left their homes to find a new one far away.
THE WEAK HOUR
by Danielle GiulianiA film about the deep fall following quick fame.
ALWAYS & FOREVER
by SamirThe 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.
DAEDALUS
by Pepe DanquartA warning against genetic manipulation and its consequences in the year 2018.
MORLOVE - AN ODE TO HEISENBERG
by SamirA videocomic with a silly detective, philosophizing billiard balls and the beautiful client Mrs. Wunderlin.
KISS ON THE HAND ? A SWISS FAIRYTALE
by Alexander J. SeilerWho 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.
