By Daniel Zimmermann
CH / 90′ / 2024/ Doc

Karlovy Vary 2024

In collaboration with renowned artists and performers, Daniel Zimmermann stages across 10 tableaux a series of mind-expanding practices for the big screen.

By Nicole Vögele
CH / 140′ / 2024 / Doc

Grand Jury Prize Visions du Réel 2024

A cinematographic essay at the Bosnian-Croatian border about displacement, violence but also everyday life and coincidence. A kaleidoscope of landscape and fury. 

By Hugues Hariche
CH / 104′ /  2023

Locarno Film Festival 2023

A runaway, Manon (17) leaves the Swiss mountains in search of her father, who is nowhere to be found. As she discovers new bonds and her first love, she strives to follow the path she set out on the ice: to become a professional ice-hockey player.

By Luka Popadić
CH / 78′ / 2024 / Doc

Audience Award Solothurner Filmtage 2024

In a personal documentary, director Luka Popadić portrays three Swiss officers of Serbian, Sri Lankan and Tunisian origin, with humour and sincerity, challenging prejudices about homeland, integration and diversity.

By Anna Luif
CH / 73′ / 2023

Chicago Film Festival 2023

Following an argument with her boyfriend, Liv Sàndor, 38, walks through the city reminiscing about past loves. As she wanders through parks, streets and cafes, Liv faces her fears, her moments of joy and her demons, before she eventually finds the means to free herself of them..

By Maurizius Staerkle Drux
CH / 81′ / 2022 / Doc

With his gestures and facial expressions alone, the mime Marcel Marceau captured audiences around the globe for decades. But the tragic background behind his work has remained hidden for a long time. THE ART OF SILENCE sheds new light on his life and unique art form, which his family and companions keep alive to this day.

By Ramon & Silvan Zürcher
CH / 98′ / 2021

Best Director and FIPRESCI Award Berlinale 2021

Lisa moves out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are being moved, tile joints renewed and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up, yearnings fill the room and an emotional rollercoaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe film. A poetic ballad about change and transience.

By Manuel von Stürler
CH / 75′ / 2021 / Doc

While diamonds and gold are traded in a climate of civil war, a cardinal and an imam are struggling together for peace and inter-religious coexistence in the Central African Republic (CAR). A film about an unusual duet that strikes realities not only in Africa.

By Frédérique de Montblanc
CH / 81′ / 2022 / Doc

Shot between Hong Kong, London, Paris and Frankfurt, an intimate portrait of five women working in the upper echelons of finance. Regularly stigmatised as ‘dragon women’, they share the survival mechanisms they use and the personal battles they wage in an ultra-patriarchal professional sector in which they represent a tiny minority.

By Nicole Vögele
CH / 116′ / 2018 / Doc

Kuo and his wife cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. The film is an attempt at capturing time, a cinematographic meditation on in-between moments and a search for the inexplicable when a human being is simply human.

By Daniel Zimmerman
CH / 106’/ 2018 / Doc

In the forest of the Catholic Monastery of Admont in Austria a fir tree is felled and processed into planks of wood. By train, truck, boat and finally by hand, the stack is transported to a mysterious destination right in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest. The wooden planks’ trajectory corresponds to one of the central, raw materials trade routes, however in reversed direction of transport.

By Samara Grace Chadwick
CH / 90’/ 2018 / Doc

A filmmaker returns to her hometown to uncover the memories of a wave of suicides that shook her high school in 1999. The memories of her former classmates reveal a far more complex and compelling story than she ever expected. The film is an invitation to move through the silence of grief.