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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Auf der Strecke
Reto Caffi
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.

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.

Die Schweizermacher
Rolf Lyssy
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.

Der Freund
Micha Lewinsky
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.

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.

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

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-.

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.

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.

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.

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

The Giant Buddhas
Christian Frei
Six months before the Twin Towers attacks in New York, 2001, two huge Buddha statues were blown up in the remote area of Bamiyantal in Afghanistan.

Step Across the Border
Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel
A ninety minute celluloid improvisation with Fred Frith and Friends.

UR-Musig
Cyrill Schläpfer
The film depicts the traditional folk music of Switzerland, portraying the musicians who perform it, musicians who are still intimately allied with their cultural heritage in central Switzerland and the Canton of Appenzell.