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A scene from Molière's Tartuffe transposed to the academic world with a sexually predatory professor. Daniel Wyss and Géraldine Rod take us behind the scenes of Mathias Urban's play, performed at the La Grange theater in Lausanne.
Lily, a film-maker suffering from tinnitus, discovers that her filming is stuck in an infinite loop. She tries everything to get out of it.
Victoire and Alizée got to know each other in the water, and it is in that same water that the two teenagers' friendship starts drifting apart. As they evolve through the competitive world of artistic swimming, Victoire notices that her friend's body is transforming. Alizée, sublimated by a new aura, bewitching and intangible, moves away from Victoire. Jealousy sets in, devouring and destructive.
Gabriel Perenzoni and Nicola Castagna met during mountain guide courses and discovered that they had a common dream: to climb all 82 4,000m mountains in the Alps in a single season. AltaVia 4000 is a journey across the giants of the Alps, an adventure of self-discovery, exploring the deep ties that develop at altitude.
"Controlled Burn" is a film by Julian Charrière that explores the theme of fire and combustion in the context of modern energy generation and the irreversible consequences of human actions in the industrial age.
A poetic and immersive voyage into the growing world of plants to rediscover love and explore how to re-entangle ourselves with nature's sentience and beauty.
Experimental film by Miriam Cahn.
A film about the hidden world of insects, the tiny heroes that keep life on our planet running. This documentary explores the many unexpected ways humanity depends on insects. It shows not only their beauty and the ways they make our planet livable, but also how our behavior is causing dramatic declines in their numbers, and what we must do to avert catastrophe.
Three children, Spring, Summer and Autumn, won't let their little brother Winter play along with them. Disappointed, he retreats into the forest. How can he get the attention and approval of his siblings?
A young woman receives a mysterious letter attached to a brick through her window. Intrigued and with one less tooth, she asks one of her good friend to translate the content of the letter to learn more about its author.
Scene filmed in the town of St. Gallen.
The bear is the emblem of Bern, and the pit that used to house several of the animals was the most common motif in representations of the city, as well as a central tourist attraction.
Third part of a series of vues of the Basel Carnival.
8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.
8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.
The bicycle was still a novelty at the beginning of the 20th century. At the Villa Belle Rive in Cannes, the Lavanchy-Clarke family engage with it cyclically, with gaps in the film in order to convey a sense of the laps.
Near a chalet in a cow pasture in the Jura, at Frohburg (Canton of Solothurn), Jenny Lavanchy-Clarke and her children Christine, Henri, and Bertha watch three lively pairs of boys doing an imitation of the lutte à la culotte (traditional Swiss wrestling). There is even a referee, stick in hand, and a judge noting the score.
8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.
"My windows were shuttered; for two months I had to live in the dark in order to experiment and study the light. When the blackout ended and the light flooded my studio again the film was made. The camera was attached like a pendulum, counting the time, bending the studio, constantly changing points of view." (Alfons Schilling)
A call to sort and recycle waste. Produced by a request from the Federal Office of the War and Labour Industry and the Waste Management Office. Factories are at a standstill due to the war. Waste collects to power these industries.
The film creates a precise balance between abstraction and figurativeness, for example, when rectangles suddenly become perceptible as windows due to a creaking noise and a movement.
In a town (another town... not ours, these things always happen somewhere else!) a dictator seizes power. Based on the music composed in 1930 by A.Schönberg for a silent film which was never carried out.
A short film about flower pots, and the problem with habits.
A transsexual man's fantasies gather momentum under the bar tender's gaze. When at last his dreams become reality, he/she realises that the bar tender isn't what he appeared to be either.
The four elements wake up during a winter storm. This is a tragic love story between the forces of nature.
On a dark rainy day, the little bird Biriki watches a rainbow appear for the first time. Enthusiastic, he flies through the colours on an adventure of discovery and surprises. From below, he is watched by his curious friend Méléo.
Mr M's main problem is that he snores. The pigeon family would certainly not dispute this fact!
Misfortune rarely strikes only once. A kidnapper tries to make a ransom video.
Bangladeshi artist Naima Karim was paralyzed by a virus and for a year could do nothing but look at the sky. She then experienced the monsoon even more intensely than usual: the initial gusts of wind, the rapidly darkening sky, the oppressive humidity and finally the downpour of rain, which washes everything clean and leaves behind a fresh scent.
My old friend Walter has been living in a truck with his Native dog for ten years. In this interview, he opens the doors of his four-wheeled house and tells stories from the life of a modern wanderer.
An old detective wakes up in an abadoned apartment with no memory of who he is and where he is. After seeing a dead body in the apartment, he has to question himself, if he might be a murderer...
The neighborhoods of a quiet city. Traversing a wasteland Pierre looks for the memory of his father, missing as war photographer, and opens his horizons. With unusual parameters the film tempts to open a direct access to the Sensitive.
In this speculative fiction, all the world’s photographs have suddenly turned into the objects they represent. The video depicts a vertiginous architecture, so devastating that it created new uncontrollable borders and isolated people. Piles of selfies, cats, and meals are scattered everywhere. Text messages evoke a new society living with limitations and suffering from media saturation, sensory overload, and crushing ecological impact. A world where images have taken over, invading and transforming space. They become the only reality that is still visible, as the whole world is turning inwards.
A 2010 English language animation film directed by Lotti Bauer.
Based on Toepffer's work, the famous 19th century Swiss designer.
When love leads to tears, holes are created. Deep inside you there are switches that you must find, and turn on.
Two former cartoon stars, Thomas and Jeremiah – a cat and a mouse – are now leading a quiet life far from the media. Their earlier sadomasochistic relationship has now been replaced by daily disputes. They allow themselves to be interviewed for the first time in many years.
A short story about a music-loving mouse.
Margot, Łania and Lu fight as a queer collective against oppressive norms in today’s Poland. The courageous women succeed in bringing about positive change, but the attention to their actions has a price.
This film experiment focuses on the non-obvious character of movement when transferred to an alien object thus endowed with the life derived from the movement's true-to-life source.
Under the viaduct that gives relief to the Route des Jeunes in Geneva, an epicenter of entertainment coexists with the dust that accumulates on abandoned vehicles. Depending on the day and time, there are skateboarders, hockey players, future bikers who slalom, or even young people who enjoy their cars. Youth is part of the history of this road from its construction in 1942 until today.
Karin and Herbert have re-converted their house to its original state of the 1930ies. Dina sells original clothing from the 1950ies, and Mario gets people dancing with Swing music. Four very different personalities who have found their freedom between the now and then, and their joy in reviving the past in the present.
In Hannes Schüpbach's "Essais" the dancer Kira Blazek explores new movements, tries out passages from one to the other. She enters into a fictional exchange with the artists and researchers Stephen Watts, Éléonore Bernard, Heba-Raphaëlle Meffre, Flurin Cuonz, Marco Baschera and Jiajia Zhang, all of them engaged in some form of self-experiment.
Ava enters the Sauna for the first time. She is overwhelmed by the nudity, her thoughts, and the physical sensations. The other guests go about their routines. With the rising heat Ava starts to relax. Finally, she melts away and dissolves into complete ecstasy.
Guatemala stands on the verge of civil war as a military junta enforces its rule with daily killings, vast landholdings by a few private owners and the forced relocation of thousands of peasants to unproductive highlands. Army and paramilitary forces carry out kidnappings, torture and executions in the name of fighting communism, and a Swiss SRG team led by Otto Honegger secretly toured occupied zones and met guerrilla and peasant committees to document the growing violence.