Michel Soutter (4 films)
Michel Soutter
Michel Soutter was one of the first directors of New Swiss Cinema who has made fiction films and he cofounded the Groupe 5 with Tanner and Goretta. This box contains his first films: LA LUNE AVEC LES DENTS, HASCHICH, LA POMME, JAMES OU PAS.

Les petites fugues
Yves Yersin
Silent revolution on a farm. Pipe, an elderly farmworker, experiences an exemplary transformation during 30 years of work in the same farm.

Accolti a braccia chiuse
Alvaro Bizzarri
The situation of the immigrant workers in the seventies is enlighted through fiction films of the amateur movie maker and worker Alvaro Bizzarri

Vitus (international)
Fredi M. Murer
Vitus is a boy who almost seems to be from another planet: He has hearing like a bat, he plays piano like a virtuoso and studies encyclopaedias at the age of five. No wonder his parents begin to anticipate a brilliant future for him.

Pas douce
Jeanne Waltz
22-year-old nurse Frédérique may have had enough of life, but dying isn’t much easier either. After gathering all her courage, with her gun poised at the ready, she suddenly hears a child scream.

Dans la ville blanche
Alain Tanner
Portrait of a sailor (sublimely acted by Bruno Ganz) who abandons everything to merge body and soul into Lisbon.

Home
Ursula Meier
An empty highway extends out as far as the eye can see in the middle of a quiet and barren landscape. Built many years ago it has remained unused and is slowly decaying.

Giulias Verschwinden (DVD)
Christoph Schaub
A film about age, youth and other eternities. On her 50th birthday, of all things, Giulia has to experience first hand that old age renders you invisible.

Le milieu du monde - Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000
Alain Tanner
LE MILIEU DU MONDE is a film about couples and the way people experienced life in the early 1970s. JONAS is a didactic film with no lesson to teach, an encyclopaedic film with no conclusion”, a film of freedom.

Höhenfeuer
Fredi M. Murer
Both a story of childhood and of a love affair: The deaf-born “Bub” and his sister “Belli” live with their parents on a remote farm in the mountains.

L'encerclement
Richard Brouillette
A journey with smart people who will make you more intelligent! Inside neo-liberal values, there is an adventure story that must be seen; the future is at stake.

War Photographer
Christian Frei
In one of the world's countless crisis areas, surrounded by suffering, death, violence and chaos, photographer James Nachtwey searches for the picture he thinks he can publish.

Les arbitres
Jean Libon, Yves Hinant
A close-up of the prestigious referees of the Euro 2008—an exhilarating football thriller sheds light on the secret heroes of the world’s most popular sport.

Signers Koffer
Peter Liechti
A kind of road movie across Europa. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland. Always following the scenery's magically charged contours. Immersing yourself, letting yourself be infected, then travelling on.

Siamo italiani - Septemberwind
Alexander J. Seiler
SIAMO ITALIANI (THE ITALIANS) was 'the thunderbolt that rudely awakened Swiss cinema from the slumbers in which it had been since the end of the War'. Seiler's cameras descended from the lofty Alpine peaks into the streets of everyday life. 40 years later

Gerhard Meier - Das Wolkenschattenboot
Friedrich Kappeler, Pio Corradi
Director Kappeler returns to the subject of his past film DIE BALLADE VOM SCHREIBEN (1995), about poet Gerhard Meier. Now that documentary is viewed as an essential introduction into the poet’s work-.

Max Frisch, Citoyen (DVD)
Matthias von Gunten
Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a character hardly found today.

Someone beside you
Edgar Hagen
Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie. What is the human mind and how does it behave in psychotic extreme situations?

La forteresse
Fernand Melgar
An immersion documentary which, without any comment or interview, will observe the operation of a Swiss centre where asylum seekers are received and selected. On a more general note, this film will raise the question about selective immigration in Europe

No More Smoke Signals
Fanny Bräuning
KILI RADIO is an independent radio station which broadcasts from the poorest Indian Reservation in the USA. It was founded in the 1970s by activists of the Indian resistance movement called “Voice of the Lakota Nation”.