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Switzerland has always appeared as that fictional landscape, where it is difficult to find something that doesn’t work, nearly as a utopia. This is even more visible during the lockdown. Those differences and contrasts around the globe are brought to evidence thanks to a pandemic.
A farmer lives an idyllic life in the Swiss Alps, until one of his goats gives birth to a kid that looks more like the farmer than a goat. To hide the traces of this bestiality, he makes cheese out of his newborn child.
Rosa is sunbathing in her garden while the gardener is working next door. Rosa is watching the gardener, increasingly intoxicated by the tender way he handles the flowers.
Maurice Béjart is widely regarded as a master of modern dance, capable of fusing the classical and the unconventional with remarkable success.
The film unfolds in Geneva, in the district around the Vernets barracks. It delves into the spaces of life and the encounters with its inhabitants. These domestic chronicles evolve between the military barracks at the edge of the blocks of flats and the insane asylum which had occupied the space in the past. Through these chronicles and the history of the place, the question arises for each spectator: what, then, is my place within?
An experimental reflection on the nature of sex using a montage of words and images.
As a hurricane draws near, a man seeks refuge in a supermarket.
We do not doubt the existence of humans. On the other hand, we still do not know why we exist or how we came into existence. This film deals with man's eternal dream to discover his origins.
The story of a middle-aged man who is seduced by a beautiful young waitress, who leads him straight to an inevitable family tragedy.
Out of moments that it articulates little by little, the film develops a complex view of a person: it shows the sculptor Cesare Ferronato at work with volumes of stone and wax, or drawing.
Silent Super 8 film by the Swiss painter Miriam Cahn.
While the vultures squabble over food, life carries on as usual for a small community in the Spanish mountains. The elderly teach the young to hunt. Those still too young, (im)patiently await their turn. A girl sets out with her donkey. A farewell and a new beginning.
Starting from indeterminate, large public spaces, the film focuses on the lines, corners, and openings of a barren apartment, eventually landing without lingering on used items, a cloth, crumpled paper. Many shaky doors swing shut, to be quickly replaced by others. Pressure and suction emerge spontaneously from the rooms in front of the observer's eyes. In the mundane: table legs, the dark tobacco end of a cigarette. The film brings life into being and ushers in light.
Jonathan lives in a world ruled by an inhumane courtship ritual forcing him to find a partner. But he doesn't want to dance. This will lead to his certain death, sooner or later. A charming neighbour appears to be his last chance, but her only interest is the revelation of his true shape and thus helping him to break free.
Three places in which men meet, share a moment, filling the emptiness of Tbilissi's daily life. At the baths, at the barber's or in an empty house haunted by three swallows, speech flows in enclosed spaces. The director observes and captures the intimacy of the words, the obviousness of the gestures and the unexpectedness of the events. A metaphor for liberty, the absolute dream of contemporary Georgia.
Patients at a psychiatric hospital depict their impressions of a day in pictures.
A tomcat is looking for his lost friend. He thinks he can see him in the clouds and starts a cloud collection. He collects until he notices that he has been keeping the memory of his friend in his heart all along.
A trip that will take us to 7 African countries (Ghana, Senegal, Rwanda, Mozambique, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Burundi) to meet powerful women determined to do everything possible to offer a better future to the African people. These women will explain how they think they are working to save the continent, which must resolutely embrace integration into the world economy because the years of totalitarian male rule in Africa have been catastrophic. A film that will make us understand that the future of Africa belongs to women.
Catania, Sicily. In the heart of the working class neighborhood lies a vast and lawless territory where makeshift stables can be found. One of them is owned by Concetto aka 'il farmacista' a man respected and even feared by many, who built a reputation for himself in the small world of clandestine horse racing. Every day, before sunrise, his son Vittorio walks to the stables to get their horse, Vito Portanova, ready for training. In a few days, a clandestine race will take place on a desert street at the foot of the Etna...
Luis, a young worker on a farm, helps Vasco finish a contract to cut a huge amount of wood before winter, while his wife in Portugal is about to give birth. In the meantime, the tension increases and the distance becomes unbearable.
The pain and frustration of young Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are shown through the prism of a parkour team.
Little Miss Fate lives in a world driven by fate. When the opportunity arises, she slips into the role of the world leader. Unintentionally she creates a monster, which greedily wants to suck up all the love of the world. Overwhelmed by the rapid development, she loses control.
A figure's yearning for touch. The longed for lover might well stand for an imaginary body, upon which insecurities around human/non-human relationships are played out.
The outbreak of the economic crisis in Spain led thousands of horses (a symbol of prestige in the years of plenty for nouveau-riches) to be abandoned by their owners. On the southeastern coast of Spain, a 45-year-old British woman, aided by her volunteer helpers, has set up a rescue farm; a modern-day Noah’s Arc that offers refuge and healing to undernourished and tortured horses (and other animals). A humble yet noble tale of perseverance and endurance and a parable for our times, which applies to people as well: once our shine comes off, society deems us redundant.
Part of a series of short commissioned works by Visions du Réel to celebrate the festival's twentieth anniversary that explore views of the future.
A primary school class in the Swiss mountains embarks on an adventure to discover the mysteries of the universe, guided by the astrophysicist Stéphanie Juneau.
A projection on 16mm film.
Franco, an elderly man, lives his life in serenity together with his wife Margherita. The arrival of his brother Vittorio, with whom he hasn’t talked in years, breaks the calm. Vittorio wants to reconcile, but Franco still bears a grudge against him. Only a sad discovery manages to touch Franco’s heart. At dinner, peace has been made. The rediscovered brotherhood is so wonderful, it seems like a dream. It takes nothing though to turn a dream into a nightmare..
The film Autoportrait is made up of four parts: Part 1: Search, Part 2: Work, Part 3: Daydream, Part 4: Family. Each of the parts can be shown as a self-contained film.
"Lah gah“ lets us dive into sunny childhood memories, when a girl is singing and cooking with its father. An intimate moment, so simple. But they’re swept along by the wafting mass of dough into the emotional depths of loss and disappearance; Helpless, the child is trying to grasp what is not tangible.
Where people meet, brave ones discover that with enough confidence pupils turn into doorknobs, opening up worlds, where horizons dissolve into nothing. The film tells eight short interlaced stories about friendship.
Marco, a handsome young man who only considers the woman as an object of seduction, spends the night with Gianna, his new conquest. But the awakening, this time, it's different.
A man – a woman – the night & an old crime. Caspar is a courier. He returns lost luggage to the owners. Unexpectedly, a woman joins him. It is this night's luck and pain to manifest Caspar's injury that has branded him for a long time.
In a city of disconcerting nature, homeless animals are looking for shelter for the night. They take refuge in the Bear's house, creating an ephemeral community that will dissolve with the first rays of sun. A tale of exclusion as recounted by crossed destinies out of sync.
Im Schatten des Wohlstandes is about children; their illnesses – if that’s what we want to call them – are civilisational in nature: their parents have to abandon them to keep up with their jobs; frustration is the core of capitalism.
A retiree's instrument inexplicably goes mute in the days leading up to a long-awaited performance.
An intimate and revealing autoethnographic documentary about uprootedness, motherhood, love of film, friendship and freedom. Two filmmakers who have been best friends since childhood, both part of the Cuban diaspora, share their intimate and emotional journey while they try to find themselves and each other in a foreign land.
“Stayer” bicycle races were big events up to the 1980s. The cyclists and their pacesetters on heavy motorcycles were popular stars. Today only half a dozen teams remain. They regularly compete on the banked curves of the century-old racetrack in Zurich-Oerlikon. They are perhaps the last of their kind.
On a Swiss glacier at more than 2700 meters above sea level stands a gigantic snow and ice sculpture. 1500 square meters were covered with a special protective fabric. Within only six weeks the unprotected surface of the glacier melted over two meters. Left was a smooth, geometric form in the middle of the wild structures in the Alps.
„Tide“ is an experimental animation short that follows a man exposed to the rising danger of high tide in a vast land with seemingly nowhere to go.
Geeta is one of the few female taxi drivers in India. Her service "for women by women" enables women to move freely in the city at any time. Her hope is that the cityscape and atmosphere of the city will increasingly change, and so will the position of women in society. In her words: "The more women become taxi drivers, the less women are afraid to step out of the house."
Inclinations is the result of several years of collaboration between the artist couple Eva and Guido Haas. Scratched and printed directly onto black film, the film frames were synchronized frame by frame with Dave Brubeck's Take 5. The working print of the film featured the shortest possible cuts, only four to five frames long. Where necessary, three of the four frames were then painted over in black again in order to be able to assemble the frame precisely.
Life is not fair & rugged. With just a few strokes, absurd moments are brought to the point in small episodes - in the truest sense of the word.
Short film by Katrin Barben.