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Swiss fiction films
 This is a story of the heart. Edmonds is no longer strong. But it still beats with an independence which fights against the very idea of entering a retirement home. |
 Vincent and Rebecca have been in love with each other ever since they exchanged glances in an Internet café. But two months later Vincent’s body is found in the Rhone brutally beaten, and Rebecca disappears soon after. | ||
 Jacob Berger’s film shows a day in the life of a family. People meet and leave, and wonder, will they find themselves again? At daybreak, Serge believes he has committed a crime. Pietra realises that she has been betrayed around midday. |
 After the death of his parents, 10-year-old Baba becomes one of the two million Aids orphans in Malawi. After the death of his mother, he refuses to speak and is admitted into an orphanage, where he is supposed to be sent to Europe as a foster child. | ||
 Silent revolution on a farm. Pipe, an elderly farmworker, experiences an exemplary transformation during 30 years of work in the same farm. |
 Vivacious and eternal optimist, Pepperminta sees and does things differently. She wants to change the world – and will. But she can not do it alone. | ||
 Sprecher, a journalist living with his girl-friend, Nina, interviews an old anthropologist, Dr. Meister, who once supervised excavations of Jenatsch's grave. |
 The situation of the immigrant workers in the seventies is enlighted through fiction films of the amateur movie maker and worker Alvaro Bizzarri | ||
 A collection of the most important movies of Markus Imhoof: THE BOAT IS FULL, FIRE IN PARADISE, THE MOUNTAIN and THE JOURNEY. |
 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. | ||
 There is an office, a steel and glass bowl where human beings work and breathe, turn round in circles and go into themselves: people – nothing remarkable about them – similar to anybody else. |
 Two outlaws, an umbrella-mender and a basket-maker become friends. After one too many schnapps the umbrella-mender, searching for his lost love, freezes to death in the rugged forest between the two villages. | ||
 Max Bodmer and Moritz Fischer are members of the Cantonal Police entrusted with the delicate task of examining foreigners who are candidates for Swiss citizenship. |
 Sonja is a waitress at a guesthouse in the Bernese Oberland and happily engaged to her boss Markus. Everything changes when an Indian chef called Rajah enters her life. Rajah is the chef on a Bollywood film set. | ||
 Fried Adelphi, a Carthusian monk, is sent to Indonesia by his fellow brothers. However, he is gripped by claustrophobia on the plane. Ashaela, his young, sparkling Afro-American neighbour on the plane, attends to him. |
 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. | ||
 A Mediterranean cruise. The passengers, almost all of them holidaymakers; a former war criminal, a French philosopher, a woman from the Moscow criminal police, an American singer and an ambassador from Palestine. What we see (the pictures) is not the same |
 JEUNE HOMME, Christoph Schaub’s (STERNENBERG) new comedy. Eighteen-year-old Sebastian, played by the new discovery Matthias Schoch, decides to go to Geneva as an au pair for a year. Yet he doesn’t only learn French beyond the «rösti trench». | ||
 Based on a crime story which hit the headlines in France in the 1970s: two adolescent girls run away and go on a criminal spree which ends in their deaths. |
 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. | ||
 Haydar and Meryem, who start their “Journey of Hope” from a small village in the mountains of South-East Turkey in September 1988. They are taking their 7 year-old son Mehmet Ali. Oscar Best Foreign Language Film 1991. |
 A department store security guard is secretely in love with a clerk in the store's bookshop. He frequently watches her via the store's video monitoring system and follows her onto the train. | ||
 Two brothers find themselves reunited in Israel after years of silence. Dan who has been living for the last 25 years in a secular kibbutz, runs up against the religious convictions of his brother Aharon. |
 Schmid's preoccupations with opera, theatricality, romanticism, and decay receive perhaps their loveliest, most poignant treatment in this remarkable documentary. | ||
 Based on C.F Ramuz’ novel, the film portrays a 1950s Alpine village on the brink of destruction because of the villagers’ hunger for money and power. Like other dairy farmers 25-year-old Joseph has suffered too many years of drought. |
 Ruza left Serbia, her country, over thirty years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruza's painstakingly organized world | ||
 Box with 4 fiction films by Alain Tanner (LA SALAMANDRE, JONAS QUI AURA 25 ANS EN L'AN 2000, LIGHT YEARS AWAY, DANS LA VILLE BLANCHE) and a documentary on his work. |
 INDIA SUNG and Somerset Maugham come together in HECATE set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, | ||
 Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. The son of a baker from Zurich, he was a stylist on the bicycle and in life, a heartthrob for many women. Koblet experienced a meteoric rise and won the Giro d’Italia in 1950. |
 A group of young people meet up regularly in a nightclub situated in a former customs house on the Swiss-French border, as a means of escape from their drab lives. NO MAN'S LAND is an “in- between” film. | ||
 20 year-old Nico lives to party. She comes from an affluent neighbourhood on Zurich's Goldcoast and since finishing highschool she's been taking things easy, living life day by day and focussing, above all else, on herself. |
 Portrait of a sailor (sublimely acted by Bruno Ganz) who abandons everything to merge body and soul into Lisbon. | ||
 This black comedy tells the story of the lovely Irina, a Russian call girl who ends up in a fairy tale land in the Alps, and falls completely under its spell. | |||
 Emil has fallen in love with Larissa. But before the two can really get to know one another, Larissa dies unexpectedly. And Emil, who only wants to obscure the sad truth about Larissa’s death, is mistaken for her former boyfriend. |
 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. | ||
 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. |
 During a funeral processsion in the mountain village, a little girl is the first person to notice the weird and wild looking woman who suddenly appears as if out of nowhere and who beginns to shatter the village's precarious idyll. | ||
 Since the death of her husband, Martha, 80-year-old, has lost her zest for life. In her village in the Emmental, especially her friends Lisi, Hanni and Frieda are concerned about her. |
 For Tanner, this film was an opportunity to return to a subject which transcends political and ideological frontiers. In the past, Tanner had entertained a “desire for the Atlantic, the wind, other places”, no doubt an expression of the Zeitgeist of his y | ||
 Zurich, 1956: During the Cold War a compromising photograph exposes a Swiss star reporter as a Soviet spy. |
 The baker Zürrer has grown up three children. Richard tries to be a businessman, Trudi and Heini, who wants to become a bycicle sportsman. The father also does not like Gina, the italian girlfriend of Heini. | ||
 The scene of the action is a closed-down, dilapidated hotel in the Swiss mountains which has been lying empty for some time. |
 The scene of the action is a closed-down, dilapidated hotel in the Swiss mountains which has been lying empty for some time. | ||
 An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, “those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence”, Alain Tanner’s third film is inspired by Cahier d’un retour au pays natal, written in 1939 by Aimé Césaire. | |||
 Max Bodmer and Moritz Fischer are members of the Cantonal Police entrusted with the delicate task of examining foreigners who are candidates for Swiss citizenship. |
 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. | ||
 The inventor who does not know that his invention does already exist. With Bruno Ganz |
 In 1939, the author Annemarie Schwarzenbach and ethnologist Ella Maillart travel together by car to Kabul, but each is in pursuit of her own project. |
