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- Pipe, farmhand for 30 years, buys a moped with his old-age insurance allowances. Despite a difficult start, Pipe sets out to discover a reality he did not know.
- This is a portrait of a man and of a country, as he travels through it. He is a travelling salesman, and travels through Switzerland selling cosmetics to beauty parlors.
- The documentary retraces the steps of Bruno Manser, a man from Switzerland who went to live with the indigenous tribe of the Penan in the Jungle of Borneo and ended up helping to defend their rainforest against greedy logging companies. The movie features original film footage, photo and voice recordings by Bruno Manser made in the 1980s, as well as new recordings showing how the life of the Penan has changed in just a few decades.
- A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland.
- A Swiss guitar player and a female saxophonist from Berlin live and work together. They perpetually discuss about staying together or separating and look up to couples who live together permanently.
- During World War II 17 men were put to death by Swiss bureaucracy. The reconstruction of the case of Ernst S. fueled a controversy about collective guilt, double standards and the role of Switzerland in the war.
- In this documentary essay, Christoph Kühn revisits a decisive event on the journey Geneva writer Nicolas Bouvier made to the East in 1955.
- The world we have just entered resembles a futurist machine. It is a colossus of concrete and glass, with a heart deep inside, a computer heart pulsating with an endless stream of data, while hundreds of beings in its labyrinthine veins are busy or trying to keep the coursing data under control...
- Anne, Nina and Max are three individuals constantly shown on train journeys - independently of one another - in the "golden triangle" between Zurich, Berne and Basle. Their existence is a sort of permanent limbo between these cities, always on the move without ever arriving. Arrival at their destination merely signals the start of the next trip. Cities are reduced to stations, places of restlessness and constant motion, whose raison d'etre is to justify the sense of going somewhere and being nowhere. Three lives lived somewhere between three cities.
- A ramshackle group of actors who struggle to resurrect a Voltaire play about conquistadors.
- Bedlam in a classroom: a foot on a desk, someone making a face, a voice-obviously the teacher's-trying to get things under control, two kids fighting in the corner. In a word: Ghetto. We accompany a handful of teenagers from "The worst ****ing ghetto room in the entire school."
- 1989 marked an unprecedented event in modern history, it was the first time a country put to the vote whether or not it wanted an army. While celebrations for the 50-year commemoration of the outbreak of World War II are well under way, a more liberal Swiss element collects thousands of signatures to support the motion to disband the Swiss army. Stirring speeches thanking halls of old veterans for their efforts to safeguard Switzerland from Hitler are juxtaposed with youth rallies and arguments from the left about the glorification of war and the social and financial burdens of an army. The film, documenting the intense debate that raged amongst the Swiss public in the months leading up to the referendum, asks the question: Is an army the precondition of freedom?
- This documentary tells the story of Maurice Bavaud, who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1941.
- San Gottardo is first and foremost a film about emigration, the exodus brought about by the construction of the two tunnels - the railway tunnel (1872-1882) and the road tunnel (1969-1976). People migrated from one country to another, from one civilization to another, and different social mores and customs were confronted with one another. The film takes place between the unveiling of two monuments: it begins with the unveiling of the monument dedicated to the tunnel workers in Airolo, and it ends with the unveiling of the Escher monument on the Zurich Bahnhofstrasse. In between the two unveiling, the film depicts the essence of that which lay behind the veiling cloth.
- Since they are 5 year old, Davide, Dominik & Raoul only wants one thing: Soccer. That's their life and passion. Becoming a soccer star - that's their dream. Three emerging Junior soccer players in training. Soccer shall become their future profession. They are willing to give anything for that goal, but are already confronted with the hard reality of the Soccer business: Injuries, backlashes and replacement.
- On the eve of their last school day, just before they face the serious side of life, a class of hundred teens is going to perform W. A. Mozart's "Requiem" in public on stage. During six weeks of strong rehearsals the young men and women start to struggle on the edge of their discipline, caught on the seesaw from public spirit to forwardness and backwards.
- Anthroposophy - a spiritual world view that Rudolf Steiner developed more than 100 years ago, today affects many fields of practice worldwide such as education, medicine, agriculture and art. Is it an alien, esoteric training path, a fundamentalist ideology or even a radical alternative to the mainstream of capitalism?
- Schilten - Dem Nebel entronnen (German, English subtitles) Based on a book by Herman Burger, the story is about a schoolteacher who is driven to insanity by his isolation in a remote part of Switzerland.