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THE MIES VAN DER ROHES
by Sabine GisigerAn female family saga from the inside of Modernism, told by the women in the haze of the iconic architect Mies van der Rohe.
THE GIACOMETTIS
by Susanna FanzunThe rugged mountain valley of Bregaglia brought forth an entire dynasty of artists: the Giacomettis. Director Susanna Fanzun traces the footsteps of this remarkable family.
PUSHING BOUNDARIES
by Lesia KordonetsWith 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?
THE BRANCH I'M SITTING ON - A TAX HAVEN IN SWITZERLAND
by Luzia SchmidA 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.
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.
SHALOM ALLAH
by David VogelWhen 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?
CHRIS THE SWISS
by Anja KofmelCroatia, 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
WELCOME TO SWITZERLAND
by Sabine GisigerThe wealthy village of Oberwil-Lieli refuses to take in any refugees. Can Switzerland no longer afford its humanitarian tradition?
BEYOND THE BOLEX
by Alyssa BolseyIn 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.
YENISH SOUNDS
by Karoline Arn, Martina RiederStephan 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.
1917 - THE REAL OCTOBER
by Katrin RotheThe russian revolutionary year narrated from the point of view of the involved artists.
FACING MECCA
by Jan-Eric MackPensioner 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.
BON VOYAGE
by Marc WilkinsA 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...
OFFSHORE - ELMER AND THE SWISS BANK SECRECY
by Werner SchweizerWhile 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.
HIDDEN RESERVES
by Valentin HitzInsurance salesman Vincent Baumann turns into a victim of the very corporations he is representing.
THE DARK GENE
by Miriam Jakobs, Gerhard SchickA 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.
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.
IRAQI ODYSSEY
by SamirAngry 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.
ULRICH SEIDL - A DIRECTOR AT WORK
by Constantin WulffA 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)«.
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».
MY FATHER, THE REVOLUTION AND ME
by Ufuk EmirogluAs the daughter of a former communist, the young director visits the interfaces of revolt, where communities attempt to realise utopia in concrete terms.
JAN - CHALLENGE AT THE NET
by Benjamin Kempf Siemens, Rafael BenitoJan Guler is meant to make it to the very top in tennis. An entire family's life revolves around this dream.
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...
PALIM PALIM
by Marina Klauser, Pia HellenthalIn 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.
ONCE I ENTERED A GARDEN
by Avi MograviAvi 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.
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.
JOSCHKA AND SIR FISCHER
by Pepe DanquartHe 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.
MURDER BEHIND THE CURTAIN
by Sabine BossStephanie Glaser in her last major role as a renitent mystery author who, together with her grandson, foils the plans of a murderer.
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.
YOUNG & YENISH
by Karoline Arn, Martina RiederA 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.
ESCHER, THE ANGEL AND THE FIBONACCI NUMBERS
by Samir«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 WANTS TO FLY
by David SievekingDavid 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.
DIRTY PARADISE
by Daniel SchweizerOne 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.
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.
YA SHARR MOUT
by Sabine GisigerThe 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.
BEAR IN LOVE
by Mike EschmannA 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.
WHERE THE GRASS IS GREENER
by Tamara StaudtEva, 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.
QUEEN OF CONDOMS
by Silvana Ceschi, Reto StammA 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.
LOST IN LIBERIA
by Luzia SchmidThe 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.
HIDDEN HEART
by Cristina Karrer, Werner SchweizerCape 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
by Arto HalonenSHADOW 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.
THE CHRONOMANIACS
by Karim PatwaAn 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...
NO RETURN - STUDER'S LATEST CASE
by Sabine BossStuder is chasing a child murderer who has been unnerving the area for months.
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.
MOM'S CAPITAL
by Karoline Arn, Martina RiederRuth Seiler founded the boarding school ?Schlössli? for young people from difficult backgrounds.
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.
WHITE TERROR
by Daniel SchweizerA 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.
GAMBIT
by Sabine GisigerIn 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.
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.
FELTRINELLI
by Alessandro RossettoHistory 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.»
GOD'S KNIGHT
by Marcel ZwingliErnst 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.
KARIM PATWA'S SPACESHIP
by Karim PatwaKarim is firmly convinced of being an extraterrestrial. The search for his origins turns out to be an adventurous odyssey through the Patwa galaxy.
CONQUISTADORS OF CUBA
by Arto HalonenCan 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.
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...
HELL ON WHEELS
by Pepe Danquart, SwissA look behind the scenes of the toughest cycling race in the world on the occasion of the 100the anniversary of the Tour de France.
SKINHEAD ATTITUDE
by Daniel SchweizerA 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.
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...
TARIFA TRAFFIC - DEATH IN THE STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR
by Joakim DemmerThousands of migrants who, by dint of rubber boats, illegally cross the straits between Morocco and Spain, change a landscape and its inhabitants.
FORGET BAGHDAD
by SamirA 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.
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.
MY SISTER MARIA
by Maximilian SchellA 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.
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.
STUDERS FIRST CASE
by Sabine BossPolice Commissioner Claudia Studer has hardly started her new job when she is called to the Sommerfeld psychiatric clinic to solve a complicated murder.
EPSTEIN'S NIGHT
by Urs EggerThe Jewish scrap metal dealer Epstein and his friend Adam Rose meet their old SS tormentor.
SUMMERTIME
by Anna LuifThirteen-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.
BABAMI HIRSIZLAR CALDI
by Esen IsikMeriç'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.
IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN
by Martina KudlacekWith 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.
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.
BLIND DATE
by SamirHe hadn't expected to meet such an exceptional woman. He flees, but she follows him.
NOEL FIELD - THE FICTIOUS SPY
by Werner SchweizerAmerican 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?
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.
MOTOR NASCH
by Sabine Gisiger, Marcel ZwingliSix women from four generations look back on their lives in Moscow, covering the period between the birth of the Sowjet Union and its dissolving.
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.
PALAVER, PALAVER. A SWISS AUTUMN CHRONICLE 1989
by Alexander J. SeilerAlexander 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.
DYNAMITE AT THE SIMPLON
by Werner SchweizerA communist guerrilla commander, a Swiss railway worker, a catholic priest and the Swiss secret service successfully prevented the destruction of the tunnel.
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.
IN WECHSELNDEM GEFÄLLE
by Alexander J. SeilerIn 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.
