Imagine Switzerland’s national soccer team playing the finals of the EURO 2008 and the TV channel turns black! Apltraum is a comical fairytale about soccer, dreams and the belief that…

An old man boards a cable car and heads up the mountain. Along the way he takes some snuff, sneezes, and things start to fall apart… literally. Good thing he…

A small airport in Switzerland. Simone has to attend her father’s funeral. But she misses her connecting flight. Natalie is waiting. For whom, she doesn’t know yet. Two strangers, caught…

Unique images illustrate the contrasts that exist in a seemingly unknown world, even though it is right on one’s doorstep. In relation to the genre, this film with a regional…

Twelve talented young mountaineers, five geologists from the University of Lausanne and four mountain guides take an unprecedented risk in Patagonia. Trained by the great climbers Ralf Weber, Ueli Steck,…

Steve Earle’s solo performance at the 2005 Montreux Festival is a charismatic triumph. Armed with just an acoustic guitar and a harmonica, he performs tracks from across his career, with…

For decades, two 70-year-old Swiss ladies have been walking and talking with each other. In summertime, their daily ritual is to swim down the river that flows through their home…

Anna is working as a cleaning lady. Every night she cleans Helen’s office. Helen is a high level broker working in the stock exchange. The two women live in different…

Three brothers live alone in a forest clearing. When the youngest must go into the forest to take one of his brothers’ places, he is so scared that he daren’t…

A look at Thessaloniki which for 450 years was mainly Jewish and the predominant language was Spanish. It was populated by the Jews who were expelled from Catholic Spain in…

“An income is like the wind beneath your wings” it says at the start of the film. Should this be an unconditional right for everyone? Is this at all possible…

Five stories, all taking place on New Year’s Eve in Zurich, Switzerland.

Documentary without narration about the clash between ancient Thebes and the droves of tourists that visit the “Trio Afrogarage alley of Kings”; with music by the “Trio Afrogarage”.

The young director, Gael Metroz, takes the road alone, camera in hand, in the footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier. He discovers that the East is no longer the almost carefree land…

Short Drama

A collage made from fragments.

RROMANI SOUL traces the true origin of the Rroma people. Through rituals, song and dance we follow emblematic figure and “Queen of the Gypsies” Esma Redzepova to Macedonia, south of…

Gregory, is set to meet his fiancée and his prospective parents-in-law at a restaurant. He arrives late and the tension is palpable as they order dinner. Uneasy, Gregory excuses himself…

René is sitting in his car driving through his drab reality. Suddenly, he has to sneeze. He pauses and listens. After a few quiet moments, he murmurs, “Bless you”. Then…

What minimalistic techno looked like in 1910?

German musician Uwe Berkemer and the Caucasian Chamber Orchestra would like to deliver a peace message: the language of music is universal. It is indeed possible to perform together and…

Elena is almost thirty years old and her life does not seem to have started yet. She works in Zurich in a photocopy store open 24 hours a day. People…

A lone beachcomber, searching for treasure on a deserted beach, finds more than he bargained for.

Documentary about Swiss grocery store pioneer Gottlieb Duttweiler

Documentary about one of the most important architects of the 20th century.

Through a stroke of fate, the young farmer Leachim, the doctor Biela, and Elena, a single mother, lose someone close to them. What they all have in common is their…

Julian, a simple farmer’s son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains. He is gay and just recently outed himself to his best friend Simone. Although Simone…

Sahara Chronicle encompasses an undefined number of short videos documenting the present sub-Saharan exodus towards Europe. Taking a close look at the modalities and logistics of the migration system in…

Jethro Tull is one of the most successful British acts of all time with a career reaching from the late sixties to the present day. In 2003 they made their…

Using found footage, we’re introduced to the short life of Bunker Spreckels, Clark Gable’s stepson and surfing legend.

Roger is a young, dashing banker full of boyish self-confidence. He has a highly successful business, smuggling black money across the border for reinvestment. But then a split second reaction…

Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother’s death. A further shock follows when he and his brother Erik discover her apartment, which…

A film about kids with little else to offer apart from a well honed body, an overabundance of hormones and a high from their last line. Teenagers Nia and Pulpo…

Michael struggles to cope with sudden death of his girlfriend Diane. His best friend, Patrick, tries to help him through it, until the terrible truth begins to come out.

Ever since he was a kid, Johnny Castle had a dream: to become a movie star. Driven by his obsession, Johnny moved to Los Angeles, and the corner of Hollywood…

Mike Duerst gets dumped by his girlfriend, because she is pregnant by her former boyfriend. In his despair Mike gets in contact with Gregor Frank, a psychologist, who, in his…

Finally adult and free? You wish! His father sees him as a future boss of the family-owned printing firm and his mother only wants the best for him. Sebastian can’t…

Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown…

The demise of airline Swissair in 2001 was a huge blow to Switzerland’s economy and to the country’s morale. It was a sad day for Swiss history when the airline’s…

Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.

The path to Yusef Lateef was a journey into the unknown. We were aware that he is one of the great maestros of jazz and one of the last of…

An African asylum-seeker dies while being held at a deportation centre. His mother goes to Switzerland to bring his body home and to find out how he died. However, despite…

Documentary account of a man’s life in the face of imminent death – Francisco Varela’s story told affectionately and gently, touchingly and astutely. Varela spent his life building bridges: between…

Young people who want to spend their Holidays far from the big city is hunted down by demons in the forest.

The past 70 years in Switzerland as told from the perspective of a hidden minority: the history – and personal accounts – of lesbians, their relationships and international networks, their…

Can a single building impact the career of an architect, the image of a global company and even the skyline of a big city? Just a month and a day…

A daft road movie about two aging thesps in search of Klopfenstein himself.

Christian Frei’s documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for 1,500 years until 2001, when the Taliban declared that…

Two guys against globalization want to plant a virus in the network of a finance corporation. On the day of the attack Alex has an accident and cannot remember anything….

Not having bitten anyone at the age of 25 makes the young vampire Victor feel quite inadequate. New hope blooms, however, when he meets Sophia, a young doctor.

Just as Lolo, a gay Italian-Secondo, is getting ready to spend a romantic evening with his lover, his Italian Nonna makes an unexpected appearance.

Documentary on the rise and fall of Swiss hardrock legends “Krokus”.

Narcotics investigator Herbert Strähl is engaging in a fierce and seemingly hopeless battle against the drug scene on Langstrasse in Zurich. Carol is a wild young drug addict. Strähl’s problems…

Middle Earth is… right in the heart of Europe! A spoof of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy set in Switzerland.

When Anita, the police commissioner’s wife, is found dead and disfigured in the bathtub, Lieutenant Braque initiates an all-out manhunt to find the commissioner.

Heinz Bütler interviews Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) late in life. Cartier-Bresson pulls out photographs, comments briefly, and holds them up to Bütler’s camera. A few others share observations, including Isabelle Huppert,…

In a Swiss church, Antonio Carrera is getting married to the pretty daughter of an Italian Mafioso, when army police officers march in and take him to the 15 week…

Parades to demonstrate gay pride may be a well-established fact of life in cities such as Paris and Berlin – but this is not the case in Sion. In this…

Matthew, a home alone teenager is actually watching TV when someone ring twice at his door. He first goes to watch at the window, then at the door when something…

A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they create together. Sometimes comical, sometimes infuriating, always fascinating.

Two young people in their twenties, Lilian and André, decide to escape the dreary holiday season and go to the paradise that is supposed to be Spain. During their aimless…

The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, “Freedom and Fatherland,” is the official slogan of the Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland, where the filmmakers live…

Erika has cancer and wants to die with dignity. Ruedi, her husband, does not want to live without her, so they decide to depart this world together. Everything is ready:…

Der Gotthard ist alles in einem: Pass, Wasserschloss, Bollwerk, die kürzeste Nord-Süd-Verbindung im Herzen Europas, heiliger Berg und, seit der Eröffnung des Straßentunnels 1980, Symbol für Fortschritt und Unabhängigkeit –…

Karl, son of a poor tailor, conquers the daughter of the village tyrant.

Sehmuz, his wife Delal and their three children have saved themselves by escaping from Turkey to Switzerland. They are temporarily lodged in the asylum centre, together with refugees from Africa…

Visiting examples of Herzog and de Meurons ground-breaking style, this film reflects their capacity to astonish and explore the way in which they transform what might otherwise be ordinary through…

The concept of Spin, the inherent turning momentum of electrons, stands for the passing of time and for time itself. The unceasing transformation of the world is translated into film…

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…

Verena, the mother superior at a German convent, tells the story of young nun Antonia. Born deaf and taken in by the convent at a young age, Antonia was raised…

Christian demonstrates some techniques and preparations and meditates on the turntable, improvisation, and the difference between the sonic and the visual arts.

For Sandra, a woman in her late teens, life is wonderful. She has recently fallen in love with Daniel, a member of the group of young men she hangs around…

A man travelling by train coincidentally ends up in a village and checks in at a hotel. A dead girl is in the bathroom. He listens to his neighbor’s conversations…

Based on unreleased archive material, this first film about Annemarie Schwarzenbach explores the life of woman born within a very rich Swiss family with open inclinations towards the Nazi Order….

During a polar expedition, Kelvin and Max leave their wounded Inuit guide behind them. Two years later, on the very same date, they meet by accident in a deserted museum….

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

A little girl meets a guy on a deserted beach and plays with him.