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Since 1963, a monument and festival on the coast of Kumamoto, southern Japan, has commemorated Kathleen Drew-Baker, a British scientist whose 1949 discovery of the life cycle of nori seaweed led to the globalization of sushi culture.
An exploration of the current situation of farmers across all four linguistic regions of Switzerland. They find themselves caught between tradition and structural change, between pride and economic pressure, and face a society that seems to think it knows how farmers should work.
The cicada, an insect that I always associate with Japanese summers spent with family, has become a symbol of comfort for me. Its presence evokes a sense of belonging. Its sounds a constant companion as I navigate life in the sweltering summer heat. Much like my own existence, the life cycle of a cicada is marked by uncertainty and obstacles, yet the insect persists, following its intuition. The unpredictability of printmaking mirrors these experiences, ultimately portraying the inexhaustibility and beauty of life.
What next after secondary school? Before they finish school, Sven, Florina and Mara need to figure out what’s right for them. It’s not that easy. In the 2021 SRF DOK documentary “Mein Leben und der Notenschnitt”, they were grappling with their school grades in Year 6. Today, they are no longer children and face new questions: What do I want? What am I capable of? What do my parents think? An emotional rollercoaster ride in search of their own path.
Charlyne pushes open the door of a bar to see “how others find ways to cope with their loneliness”. There, she meets Alain, Joufflu, Pascal and the others. As the buses and the jass card games come and go, Charlyne becomes a regular. From this immutable backdrop emerges a brilliant filmmaker, in search of her place both in the frame and in life.
If water could speak and we could understand it, we would hear how absurd it finds the categorisations of living things created by human science, the lack of respect for the territory of others, the desire to colonise...
Aspiring screenwriter Louis has finally caught a big job but what looks like his dream come true turns out to be much harder than he thought. With help from his spiritually lost and borderline-alcoholic best friend, Pierre, he takes on the challenge.
A difficult relationship unfolds across the different floors of an apartment, where distance, encounters, and tension gradually transform the domestic space into an emotional landscape.
What makes us get up in the morning and go to work? What drives us to retrace the same path every day that takes us away from home and takes us to the office? Where, if there is, the limit between passion and work, can they be the same thing? Many questions are asked every day, following a routine that has now become obvious and natural. But Mirto doesn't wake up with these questions ... or maybe he does? The management of a bar in the past, and now for many years in the center of Lugano to make couples of lovers dream and cheer music lounges with its instruments.
A raw and necessary journey inside the reality of crack cocaine use in Switzerland, a growing phenomenon that - which started on the streets of America's great metropolises - is now taking root in Swiss urban centers as well. The documentary explores the cities of Lugano, Zurich, Lausanne, and Geneva, mapping a silent epidemic advancing among the margins of society. The film gives voice to social workers, street mediators, managers of “consumption rooms” and night shelters: professionals who, every day, face the reality of crack trying to reduce the damage, protect lives, and offer alternatives. Between direct testimonies, urban environments on the edge, and glimpses caught in the night, the documentary shows a hidden Switzerland, vulnerable, but also full of humanity and concrete attempts at change.
Part of FIFF's section "Une Histoire de Fribourg : Terre de hockey sur glace"
Researched and filmed with unprecedented access to judges from the ICJ. The Mandate takes us on a philosophical journey into the battle of relevancy for international law posing the question: whose mandate and responsibility is to act'?
Emilienne is sixteen years old and lives with autism spectrum disorder. From the theatre stage where her mother shares with us the journey she has taken to come to terms with her daughter's autism, the film takes us on a journey into the teenager's daily life, filmed close to her, and partly by her.
Agrippina (Ouverture - HWV 6) & Cantata "Apollo e Dafne" (HWV 122) filmed live at Erasmus klingt! – Festival Lab 2022
Our image of short men is clichéd. But isn't there a grain of truth in every cliché? Tall men are successful, short men have problems.
Quod Corpus Tenet follows Louise, a 17-year-old student spending an ordinary afternoon studying alone in a library cubicle. Surrounded by silence and routine, her focus is subtly disrupted by a news broadcast playing nearby. What first feels like background noise begins to resonate more deeply, awakening emotions she has long kept buried. As the outside world intrudes, the confined space becomes increasingly oppressive. Through tight framing, shifting colour tones, and an immersive soundscape, the film traces Louise’s inner unraveling as suppressed trauma surfaces. Reality and memory blur, and the act of studying turns into a struggle for control. A restrained psychological drama, Quod Corpus Tenet explores the weight the body carries when silence becomes unbearable, inviting the audience into an intimate and unsettling experience of repression, vulnerability, and emotional collapse.
Among the technology elite, the idea is gaining ground that humans must merge with machines in order to remain useful. World leading experts embark on a journey into the darkest, inhuman thoughts of technology optimists.
Ruth Fayon, who was deported by the Nazi during the Second World War, is persuaded by a teacher to confront the unspeakable after thirty years of silence. During this overwhelming testimony Primo Levi joins Ruth Fayon thanks to archival images.
January 2002. About sixty transplanted children from fourteen different countries were invited by Liz Schick to spend a week in Anzère, a swiss ski resort. They talk about their heavy interventions, but also about the pleasure they have to meet each others , and to live the same things than the other young children of their age.
Choreographer Christian Spuck takes on Schubert's last cycle of lieder, reorchestrated by Hans Zender, from which he draws a powerful choreography in chiaroscuro, between symbolism and mysticism.
Hundred-year-old Edith Ballantyne fled from the Nazis in 1938 and found her purpose as president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. As an ally of the United Nations, she influenced the international peace movement and brought millions of people onto the streets for disarmament. Horrified by the escalating conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, she now joins fellow activists in calling for dialogue.
Every Sunday night a young man buries a "cervelat" in the woods. At the same time, people in the nearby small town start to disappear.
A line – drawn directly onto the film by Urs Graf. A film that makes no explicit statements, but in which one can (optionally) have an experience – for other lines/images/words. The continuous dissolution of the content always leads back to the medium (the line). Experiencing the medium as a medium allows one to more consciously find access to the meaning behind other lines/images/words.
Short film by Juval Marlon shot prior to "Todesmarsch Nach Chiasso".
Two men abduct a woman to put an STGW90 in her mouth.
After 20 years of traveling through Latin America, a French-Swiss ethnographer disappears from the map. Using travel journals from various ethnographers and non-fiction film archives, the author imagines and constructs a travel diary of the unknown and incognito ethnographer from the 1950s and 1970s, a testimony to the industrial transformation, evangelization, and ethnocide of Latin American communities.
Fixed 22 is part of the Fixed Series. A digital manipulation of the origin point of a scene’s motion system. It feels as though the laws of physics have been momentarily suspended of course, they remain untouched. What shifts is our perception, the quiet disorientation of seeing the scene anew.
For a documentary they’re making, Edouard and Justine interview single, young pregnant women in their camper. One of these women is Alice. As the conversation draws to a close, the mood in the cramped vehicle changes.
Julie visits family in Italy.
One, two, three… statue. Will the bear come play with me? Where is he? Who is he? A game exploring our relationship to the wild.
Switzerland ranks fifth in the world among countries with the highest GDP per capita. Why is this Alpine nation, poor in natural resources, wealthier than most other countries? This film tackles the question analytically and sheds light on more than five hundred years of Swiss economic history.
Sara's grandfather is a missing piece in her family. Who is Kamran Tan? The director sets out in search of clues and travels to La Spezia, the coastal town where he is said to have lived. What does kinship mean when you've never met? Unexpected events and revelations gradually shape a narrative. A road movie about family and identity.
Timbehes, Goddess of Creation, created the earth and humans by fertilising herself with a banana. Her creation is marvellous and idyllic. But the more people there are, the greater their hunger for bananas becomes. A critical look at our approach to consumption based on the most consumed fruit in Europe.
Hide and Seek Movie. A weekend trip becomes a nightmare for 5 students.
"X Large" follows Pablo, a young man facing a challenge no one ever prepared him for: buying condoms. Lacking proper sex education and eager to impress his girlfriend, he grabs the biggest size available – XXL, of course. It’s only later that he realises: porn was never meant to be a trusted guide. Witty, honest and sharply observed, X Large tackles masculinity, shame, and the silent pressures of growing up — with humour and heart. A bold short film about the fragile theatre of becoming a man.
A young woman, on the verge of moving, decides to end her life to escape this change. In exchange for her death, she offers a large sum of money to a stranger she met online, asking her to kill her with a single bullet. But the stranger fails, leaving the two women forced to wait for a new delivery of ammunition.
A collections of talks over a nice, cold beer.
Five young queer screenwriters and directors from all linguistic regions of Switzerland come together in a writing residency to develop their scripts and narratives. In this documentary, they share their ambitions, doubts, fears, and hopes with us. Will they turn their visions into reality?
While living abroad, Mohammed begins to receive pleas of help from his family trapped in Gaza, enduring the latest onslaught. He learns there are other ways forward other than hopelessness.
A letter, a song and a foggy night in Venice.
A naive farmer named Heiri comes to Zurich’s Niederdorf to spend his calf-sale fortune and is quickly ensnared by pickpockets, seductive nightlife, and fleeting friendship, only to find himself destitute and alone. Meanwhile, a romantic entanglement unfolds involving Ruthli, her fiancé Police Officer Bruno, and charismatic entertainer André, all revolving around a stolen pearl necklace that brings the community’s true feelings and loyalties to light as everything resolves in a nostalgic and bittersweet conclusion.
