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Spheres

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.

The Landscape and the Fury

By Nicole Vögele
CH / 140′ / 2024 / Doc

Grand Jury Prize Visions du Réel 2024

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

Rivière

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 field hockey player.

Le Théorème de Marguerite

By Anna Novion
CH / 112′ / 2023

Official selection Cannes 2023

The future of Marguerite, a brilliant mathematics student at the ENS, seems to be all mapped out. The only girl in her class, she was finishing a thesis that she was to present to an audience of researchers. On the big day, a mistake upsets all her certainties and the whole edifice collapses. Marguerite decides to leave everything behind and start again.

Echte Schweizer

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.

Les histoires d'amour de Liv S.

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..

The Art of the Silence

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.

Michel Comte, New Light

By Ophélie Giomataris & Mikael Zikos
CH / 51′ / 2022 / TV-Doc

Michel Comte has played in the big league of photographers in the 1980/90ies. But for several years now, he dedicates himself to contemporary art. Nature and ecology is the focus of his work, with artistic projects in the Arctic ice and on the Turkish-Syrian border. Michel Comte New Light is an updated portrait of this passionate adventurer.

Das Mädchen und die Spinne

By Ramon & Silvan Zürcher
CH / 98′ / 2021

Best Director and FIPRESCI Award Berlinale 2021

Lisa moves out. Mara is left behind. All sorts of commotion transpire. 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.

Sìrìrì - Le Cardinal & l'Imam

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.

Dragon Women

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

Portraits of women who are making a career in the world of finance.

Stille über Fukushima

By Aya Domenig
CH / 52′ / 2021 / Doc

Five artists fight against the silence surrounding Fukushima, ten years after the nuclear catastrophy.

Closing Time

By Nicole Vögele
CH / 116′ / 2018 / Doc

3 AM, Zhongzheng Road, Taipei. The traffic of a 24/7-society pulses through the metropolis in constant waves. Bordered by a multi-lane street with a big freeway towering above it, lies the night eatery «Little Plates with Rice». Here Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work at night and sleep through the days – trying to keep afloat. Their eatery is a pit stop, a place of refuge, a warm bowl of rice. For the taxi drivers, the shop owners, for the tattoo artist next door. For families and young lovers. For the street dog awaiting his owner’s return.

WALDEN

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.

1999 - Wish You Were Here

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. None of her former classmates have talked about it, until now – although each of them has kept their personal archives from that time. Their memories reveal a far more complex and compelling story than she ever expected. The film is an invitation to move through the silence of grief.

Typiquement Suisse?

By Matthias Günter & Andy Herzog
CH / 51′ / 2016 / Doc

What is typically Swiss? Evil tongues claim that the relentless asking of this question is, in fact, typically Swiss. In the documentary mini-series Typiquement suisse? three reporters criss-cross the country on a crucial mission: with the help of statistics, they want to find out what it means to be typically Swiss. This two-part documentary (2 x 52′) is an empirico-ironic investigation into what it means to be Swiss.