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Six sisters live together with their grandmother in a house in Zurich. They are all preoccupied with their own lives. One summer a quiet boarder and the return of the oldest sister disrupt the usual family order, triggering a battle against the rigidity of former roles.
A tiger's escape shatters the long silence between a father and his son, with suppressed love shining through the crack.
Luca and Margherita are facing one of the most important challenges of their lives. Both in their twenties, they find themselves facing the prospect of becoming parents. This event marks the beginning of a journey that will take them in two different directions. Luca will run away from his responsibilities, embarking on a journey of discovery that will lead him to a fantastic microcosm, where he will find the courage to face real life and undergo an inner transformation.
Recording of Johann Nestroy's play from the Landestheater Salzburg.
Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman leaves her native village for the canton of Bern where she manages to be hired by Anton Muller, a wealthy, authoritarian farmer. Under the young woman's spell, Anton wants to make his servant his mistress but Thérèse refuses energetically.. Later on, she nevertheless accepts to marry Anton. On the wedding day, she meets Gottfried, her bridegroom's son, and they instantly fall passionately in love with each other.
A young couple breaks into a Lost Place flat, to make out with each other. While they are making jokes about her ex-boyfriend, a golden-nose killer is following them and later coming after their lives. Will he reach his own goals?
Every morning, Boris the village baker makes a fresh batch of crusty bread and pastries for all his neighbours until… Achoo! He can’t stop sneezing. He has become allergic to flour. How will he manage to keep baking for everyone in the village?
Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague. A challenging look at the essence of film critique as well as an erotic encounter between two unequals.
After the Zurich heist of the century, the justice system uses spectacular methods to recover a 100 million painting. Stolen works of art of almost priceless value, a Serbian mafia gang and undercover investigators: the docu-drama series "It happened on... " tells how the Zurich justice system uses cinematic methods to recover two works of art, a 100-million Cezanne and a Degas, which were stolen by armed thieves from the Bührle Museum in Zurich on February 10, 2008. An undercover investigator infiltrated the Serbian mafia gang, invitations to a luxury weekend in St. Moritz followed and the stolen paintings were finally returned thanks to a faked deal worth millions.
A curious lynx leaves its forest, attracted by the lights of the nearby town. It has great fun there until it falls asleep in the middle of a parking lot. In the early morning, locals are astonished to find this strange animal covered in snow.
In April 1978, members of the Groupe Autonome Révolutionnaire (GAR) rob a bank in Zurich with the aim of bringing to light the covert ties between the Swiss financial system and dictatorships in Latin America. Wanting to secure concrete evidence, they film the entire operation.
The mafia-like structures in the Calabrian Mesoraca were built up in the 1990s, mainly thanks to weapons from Switzerland. The hub of the illegal trade was Ticino. An investigation into how the ‘Ndrangheta infiltrated a small Swiss town.
Two childhood friends from a tough Milanese suburb—one a low-level drug dealer, the other stuck in a back-breaking, underpaid job—find their bond tested when they both fall for the same girl against a backdrop of escalating social unrest in their neighborhood square.
Romantic comedy about an elderly intellectual and a young casual worker
Karla uses her job as a caregiver to gain access to powerless victims she can murder. She finds an unexpected partner in Morris, who also enjoys torturing helpless people.
Your untangled hair hides a 7 year war. Cross-look of three women engaged alongside the FLN on colonization and the Algerian war of independence. They will know the clandestine, the prison, the torture, the psychiatric hospital. It is at the twilight of their lives that they choose to testify, after decades of silence. With clarity and modesty, they tell the story of colonial Algeria, segregation, racism, anti-Semitism, prison, torture, solidarity, freedom and also the nature that invigorates, soothing landscapes, music and poetry that allow the breakaway .
Experience the adrenaline rush of jumping off waterfalls, cliffs and cave walls with a team of adventurers in Switzerland and Northern Italy.
Even when two hearts experience the same thing, they beat in their own unique way. A story about the realistic present and the idealized past. As a couple puts together a puzzle, their different emotional perceptions and memories come to light. An intimate drama unfolds about love, acceptance, and the question of whether the individual pieces of the relationship will ever come together to form a complete picture.
Documentary about Nepal and its path into the 20th century.
Multi-instrumentalist, Trombone Shorty is the kind of player who comes along maybe once in a generation. His new album, Backatown is a mix of rock, funk, jazz, hip-hop and soul. He had to create his own name to describe his signature sound: Supafunkrock!
Farewell Paradise is about the search for a truth within a broken family, based on the personal story of director Sonja Wyss's family. From one shared history, through 6 different perspectives, 6 different stories emerge.
For Alyssia and Ilaria, every farewell is also a reunion. Just a while ago they were at the Italian Mediterranean coast, now here they are standing at a parking lot in front of an Esso gas station, waiting for their father’s car to appear around the corner. Affectionately, they bid their mother good-bye for now. The two sisters’ parents are separated. Just like Carleton, Sherazade and Thomas, the two girls have found their own way of dealing with the situation.
A documentary feature that combines behind-the-scenes footage from director Juval Marlon's previous films with freshly shot interviews and performances to reflect on the character of underground exploitation cinema.
The film returns to the origins of the creation of the State of Israel (from 1896 to 1948) and highlights the responsibility of the Western World.
The titular Marie-Louise is a young French lass who is evacuated to Switzerland when her country is overrun by the Nazis. Suffering a nervous breakdown, she is given comfort and shelter by a wealthy family. Unfortunately, living in the lap of luxury makes Marie-Louise hesitant to return home to her mother and war torn home. Eventually the girl comes to her senses, but it isn't easy.
Artist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He created, usually under the open sky, monumental, idealized alpine landscapes. In the course of his lifetime, he climbed ever higher in search of more light, finally dying at 41 in an Engadin alpine hut at 2700m. The film offers insight into his difficult childhood and boyhood, shares his inner processes and crises as a painter, as well as his contradictory dealings with motherly love and eroticism – and ultimately his desperate struggle against death…
I meet Herbert in the same week I get diagnosed with cancer. We fall madly in love and plan to stay together for the rest of our lives. Three months later, he is dead. Herbert was a BASE Jumper. Leaping off a cliff with nothing but a parachute, he loses his balance, slams into the rock face and falls to his death. His loss in the midst of my chemotherapy completely throws me. Why does he gamble his life away, while I fight for mine? Desperate for answers, I return to Lauterbrunnen, the scene of the accident where Andreas, his best friend and coach, introduces me to the world of BASE. The jumpers teach me not only about the sport, but about facing fears, harnessing and controlling them. To make the most of the life we get. In the Swiss Death Valley I slowly find my way back to life.
Two barrel organ players roam the streets of Juárez, a district of Mexico City. They play their music and ask passers-by for money, while a couple of tourists from Paris set up an insurance fraud...
Because he does not like the idea of Jeanne leaving for a three-week vacation with her friends, Michel locks himself in the bathroom. Jeanne and Michel have been married for 50 years…
James Baldwin, a stranger in a Swiss village in 1962, reflects on ordinary and universal racism.
"This film is an attempt in focusing. I visited Kurt Kren in Vienna. (Kurt Kren is considered to be the father of the European underground film.) Kurt Showed me lots of documents, papers and letters, all about the fights he had with many restaurant owners in Vienna. But the film I made is not about these fights; I tried to focus on the eye of the hurricane, the eye of Kurt Kren. Is this Kurt Kren or isn't it?" (HHK)
The love story of Bruno and Tiziana is turned upside down by the 59 seconds that wrote one of the most tragic pages of Italy's history – the earthquake that devastated Friuli in May 1976.
Allows glimpses on a Hong Kong shortly before the 1997 handover to China. But rather than focusing on the expected hysteria Luc Schaedler’s documentary debut works towards complexity by allowing six diverse residents to talk about their relationship to the colonial city. Their life stories beautifully mix with the images of the author. Made in Hong Kong is a very personal portrait of a city in transition and we learn about Hong Kong’s ambiguities and its political and social problems, as well as the uncertainties regarding the time after 1997.
A teen girl gets lost in a deep forest, she appears to be in danger and frantically tries to find a way out. A monologizing voice-over enters, that of a woman who evokes her loneliness.
A woman confronts her past – and invents her future. Seventy-six-year-old Elise knows exactly how she will spend the final years of her life: living with Paul, to whom she has been happily married for 50 years, in their villa on Zürichberg till her last breath, and tenderly cared for by Angela, their faithful housekeeper. But then Angela is discovered by the theatre and hired for a stage play. Paul hits a man with his '68 Maserati and subsequently becomes friends with him; Elise passionately kisses a young veterinarian.
Marc Hauser is a visionary. Or is he mad? A record-holding skydiver, Hauser has a grand ambition: to become the first man to jump into a hurricane force jet stream at over 8,000 meters. A big risk, but with potentially huge rewards. Hauser wants to show the power of the jet stream as an energy source, which he believes could solve the global energy crisis. As Hauser's preparations take shape, the scale of his challenge becomes clear.
The poetry of the passage of time is seen on the faces of the elderly and in the voices of a youth choir.
A film dedicated to the dramatic events that occur on the roads due to alcohol.
A portrait of three female skaters in Switzerland.
It is the story of two young Swiss people who couldn't be more different and who meet in ski races around the world. From 1972 to 1975, from Sapporo to Kitzbühel to Wengen, Bernhard Russi and Roland Collombin fought a relentless battle for the title of the world's best ski racer.
A documentary tragicomedy of a father-daughter relationship, told by the subjective perspective of the young director. She tries to understand how a revolutionary could have become a criminal and an alcoholic, and why he abandoned his family. Freely juggling between documentary, fiction and animation, the director takes us on a journey around the world. The daughter of a former communists visits the ports of the revolt, where communities are trying to realize the concrete utopia.
A promising Italian cartoonist lands in Buenos Aires in 1950, with the dream of reaching the United States, to discover that, for him, America will be Argentina. The country immediately overwhelms him with its massive economic boom and a cultural scene among the most vibrant in the world. We are at the dawn of Argentina's most delirious decade, and the young immigrant feels that the vast promise of this country is within his grasp. His name will indeed make itself known: Hugo Pratt.
Hanna is searching for a painting dedicated to her by her late grandfather, Pavel, who was a painter. But an 11-year-old boy appears unexpectedly at her grandfather’s studio and claims to know where the painting is.
A palpably rendered audiovisual essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and Emma Davie (I am Breathing) and philosopher David Abram (The Spell of the Sensuous) to forge a path into the places where humans and animals meet.
Mira, a young Swiss woman, comes to Iraqi Kurdistan to look for her lost father. There she meets Ramo, a Kurd who offers to be her interpreter and driver. So begins a journey through a troubled and beautiful land in search of belonging.
The glory and collapse of the grand Republic of Venice: the reasons are numerous, complex, human and all too human. Are these the same ingredients, the mélange that might determine whether the current Europe will survive? And if so, under what conditions? Jean-Marie Straub poses the question in this film, more austere and concentrated than ever.
Russia’s record-high number of holidays are celebrated at an upbeat balalaika pace and with black humour in a lively mosaic of impressions from life in the vast, inscrutable country in the East.
On the occasion of the FC Zürich 125th Anniversary, the movie takes a look at the club‘s history with a lot of archival footage and interviews with some important club figures.
When 18-year-old Yasin is kicked out of his home, he ends up in the countryside. Without realizing it, he finds himself getting deeper and deeper into a dangerous situation.
The love story begins when a young prince hunting in the forest chases a squirrel to a beautiful princess.
Two young men are playing in a bathtub. Then a third and fourth slip in to join them. They are called Émile and they are looking for their “perfect mother” when a fifth man arrives, the Émile who reconciles them all.
In 2010 a delegation of Chinese architects travelled to Cadaqués, on the Costa Brava, to take notes for the large-scale replica of the town they were planned to build in Xiamen, on the southeast coast of China. Six years later, young entrepreneur Tingting sets off to spend the weekend in her flat in Kadakaisi, the Chinese Cadaqués. The film weaves between the original and replica, reality and dream, time and memory, through the landscapes of Cadaqués, Kadakaisi, Xiamen and Cap de Creus.
In an idyllic wine region at the foot of the Swiss Alps lives Rico with his two daughters and his wife Anna. The charming daughter, Lili, brings turbulence into the so far harmonious family life because of the awakening of her sexuality. Her father sees her with new eyes and starts to distance himself from her. Lili feels rejected from her father and reacts with aggression and power games.