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A DANGEROUS METHOD David Cronenberg (2011)

Altdorf, Bulle, Genève, Heerbrugg, Lausanne, Moutier, Oron-la-Ville, Wengen, Zürich Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi, Fr | Info

ANNA GÖLDIN, LETZTE HEXE Gertrud Pinkus (1991)
The last witch to be burned in Switzerland in 1781.
Lausanne Vorstellungen Mi | DVD

ARME SEELEN Edwin Beeler (2010)
The filmmaker travels to the mysterious land of the “poor souls”. He visits eyewitnesses in rural areas of Central Switzerland. They offer their account of mystifying experiences in connection with the afterlife.
Luzern Vorstellungen So | DVD | Trailer

AZZURRO Denis Rabaglia (2000)
75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live
Schaffhausen Vorstellungen Mi | DVD

BOTTLED LIFE - NESTLE'S BUSINESS WITH WATER Urs Schnell (2011)
, Basel, Bern, Biel/Bienne, Brugg, Cossonay, Fribourg, Genève, Lausanne, Lenk, Morges, Neuchâtel, Nyon, Vevey, Wattwil, Zürich Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi, Do | Info

CORPO CELESTE Alice Rohrwacher (2011)
Genève, Lausanne Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi, Do, Fr | Info

EINE RUHIGE JACKE Ramon Giger (2010)
Aarau, Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, Wil, Zürich Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi | Info

EDUARDO FALU - CANTO AL PAISAJE SONADO Oliver Primus (2010)
Zürich Vorstellungen So | Info

THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS Jørgen Leth (2003)
Zürich Vorstellungen Sa | Info

FLYING HOME Tobias Wyss (2011)
Walter Otto Wyss emigrated to the USA in 1939 after a tragic car accident. There he developed a revolutionary hybrid automobile that was never produced.
Bern, St. Gallen Vorstellungen So | Info

DIE FRAU MIT DEN 5 ELEFANTEN Vadim Jendreyko (2009)
A fascinating world of culture and humanity at the heart of which the literary text is essential. 5 “elephants” = 5 great books by Dostoyevsky.
Petit-Lancy Vorstellungen Fr | DVD | Trailer

GERHARD MEIER - DAS WOLKENSCHATTENBOOT Friedrich Kappeler, Pio Corradi (2007)
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-.
Biel/Bienne Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mo | DVD | Trailer

GIOCHI D'ESTATE Rolando Colla (2011)
Fribourg, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Lausanne, Sainte-Croix, Tramelan Vorstellungen Sa, So | Info

GLAUSER Christoph Kühn (2011)
Münsingen. The night is quiet, dark. Friedrich Glauser can’t stop brooding. The Foreign Legionnaire, dadaist, author and morphine addict takes stock of his botched life.
Basel, Bern, Lenk, Luzern, Olten, Thusis, Wettingen, Zürich Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi, Fr | Info

GOTTHARD SCHUH. UNA VISIONE SENSUALE DEL MONDO Villi Hermann (2011)
Acquarossa Vorstellungen Mi | Info

HERZ IM EMMENTAL Bernhard Giger (2011)
Emmental stands for rural, unspoiled Switzerland, serving as a collective projection surface. The film explores this by consolidating the accounts of ten local inhabitants.
Olten Vorstellungen So | Info

DIE KINDER VOM NAPF Alice Schmid (2011)
50 children of farmers living high up in the Swiss mountains, 10 kilometres away from school. The director filmed them for 365 days. Through the children the beauty and cruelty of nature is discovered.
Aarau, Basel, Belp, Bern, Brugg, Burgdorf, Engelberg, Gstaad, Lenk, Liestal, Luzern, Oensingen, Olten, Reinach, Schaffhausen, Signau, St. Gallen, Wattwil, Wil, Willisau, Zug, Zürich Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi, Do | Info

DIE KÄSEREI IN DER VEHFREUDE Franz Schnyder (1958)
The farmers of a village decide to postpone the construction of a new school in profit of a concentration to cheese production. From a novel by Jeremias Gotthelf.
Schwarzenburg Vorstellungen Fr | DVD

MARC RISTORI - D'UNE SECONDE A L'AUTRE Benjamin Tobler (2011)
Bulle, Carouge Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mo, Di | Info

MOI C'EST MOI - ICH BIN ICH Gabriele Schärer (2010)
Bern Vorstellungen Sa | Info

MY REINCARNATION Jennifer Fox (2010)
Solothurn Vorstellungen So | Info

NEL GIARDINO DEI SUONI Nicola Bellucci (2009)
The film is a touching, poetic exploration of the relationship between mind, body and sound, and a cinematic journey to the borders of communication.
Wil Vorstellungen Sa | DVD

ONKEL ALBIN Simon Guy Fässler (2011)
Einsiedeln Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mi | Info

OPERATION CASABLANCA Laurent Nègre (2011)
One day, Saadi finally snaps. His boss has mistreated him one time too many. But when the young dishwasher, a North African illegal immigrant dares to protest, he is summarily fired.
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel Vorstellungen Sa | Info

LA PETITE CHAMBRE Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond (2009)
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.
Bremgarten Vorstellungen Do | DVD | Trailer

SILVESTERCHLAUSEN Thomas Rickenmann (2011)
There are the “beautiful” and there are the “ugly.” And then there are the “beautifully ugly.” A former village doctor refers to the “Silvesterchlausen” in the hinterland of Appenzell as the “healthiest fever ever.”
Herisau, Uzwil Vorstellungen So, Di | Info

THE SUBSTANCE - ALBERT HOFMANN'S LSD Martin Witz (2011)
In 1943 the chemist Albert Hofmann stumbled on to a hitherto unknown substance in his Basel laboratory. After an experiment on himself he realized he had discovered an extremely potent agent that radically changes human perception.
Basel, Luzern, Zürich Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mo, Di | Info

THE TURIN HORSE - A TORINóI Ló Béla Tarr (2011)
Genève, Lausanne, Tramelan Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi | Info

URSULA - LEBEN IN ANDERSWO Reni Mertens, Walter Marti (2011)
The film shows that childern can be educated by their human nature. Ursula is blind and deaf. He shows the potential of developement which is in each human being.
Basel, Bern, Brugg, Liestal, Luzern, Männedorf, St. Gallen, Wil, Zürich Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi | DVD

DER VERDINGBUB Markus Imboden (2011)
Max is an orphan who has been hired out to a farmer’s family. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing the accordion is the one thing that is entirely his.
Aarberg, Adelboden, Baden, Basel, Belp, Bern, Burgdorf, Davos, Engelberg, Frick, Heerbrugg, Lenk, Luzern, Oensingen, Sissach, Spiez, St. Gallen, St. Moritz, Wetzikon, Willisau, Winterthur, Worb, Zuchwil, Zürich Vorstellungen Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi, Do | Info

VOL SPECIAL Fernand Melgar (2011)
In Switzerland, more than 200’000 illegal immigrants live in fear: at any moment they risk being arrested without committing any crime. They can be tied up, handcuffed, gagged and returned to their native land by force.
Leysin Vorstellungen So | Info

WANDLUNGEN Bettina Wilhelm (2011)
Basel, Brugg Vorstellungen So, Mo, Di, Mi | Info

DIE WIESENBERGER Bernard Weber, Martin Schilt (2011)
For over 20 years the citizens of Wiesenberg had cultivated the same rituals. The singing mountaineers met once a week in the local church to rehearse together and they yodelled for weddings and birthdays.
Engelberg, Luzern Vorstellungen So, Mo | Info

Swiss Film Prize Quartz 2012
17.3.2012 16h30 Luzern
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Visions du Réel Nyon 20 - 27 avril 2012 2012-04-20 (French)

65e Festival de Cannes 16 au 27 mai 2012 2012-05-16 (French)

65. Festival del film Locarno 1.8.-11.8.2012 2012-08-01 (German)

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Die 6 Kummerbuben by Franz Schnyder
The Kummer family has 6 sons and is both independent and poor.

Azzurro by Denis Rabaglia
75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live

Bruno Manser - Laki Penan by Christoph Kühn
Scientist and environmentalist Bruno Manser left Switzerland in 1984 in order to realize his dreams in the remote rain forests of Borneo. He lived with the indigenous people of Penan, a place caught between magic and reality.

Buffo, Buten & Howard by Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
Howard Buten is a clown who hates clowns, but who adulates Grock. A psychologist who’s said to be closer to autists than to «normal people ». An author who wrote the bestseller « When I was five I killed myself » by hand with a pencil.

Ciné Journal au féminin - Die Frau in der Filmwochenschau by Lucienne Lanaz, Anne Cuneo, Erich Liebi, Urs Bolliger
The swiss film news were created during World War II. The film looks behind the gender roles of the women in swiss society.

Elenas Chance by Bernard Weber
Elena has the Down Syndrome. Netherless she is attending a normal primary school in a small town in Switzerland. Bernard Weber follows this school and shows us how integrative education can be both adventourous and enriching.

Faustrecht by Bernard Weber, Robi Müller
A long-term documentary about two violent teenagers. The two directors observed Tim and Gibran between their 16th and 18th birthday.

Fixerorte by Bernhard Giger
The story of social workers in the drug scene of Berne.

Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten by Vadim Jendreyko
A fascinating world of culture and humanity at the heart of which the literary text is essential. 5 “elephants” = 5 great books by Dostoyevsky.

Geld und Geist by Franz Schnyder
A farmer family lives in peace until the father gets convinced to invest money he got to keep in speculation.

Gilberte de Courgenay by Franz Schnyder
Swiss soldats in the first world war.

Gramper und Bosse by Edwin Beeler
My father made a living on the railways for 44 years, while my mother worked as a cook for a group of railway workers. Nowadays, those kind of livelihoods no longer exist, as the railways have been restructured and automated.

Grossesse nerveuse by Denis Rabaglia
A satire where children and pets fill the emotional gap in obsessional characters, in a world where paternity and maternity no longer rhyme with family.

L' histoire c'est moi by Edwin Beeler, David Bernet, Jeanne Berthoud, Samuel Chalard, Anne Cuneo, Frédéric Gonseth, Alex Hagmann, Thomas Gull, Kaspar Kasics, Grégoire Mayor, Fernand Melgar, Thomas Schärer, Marc-Antoine Schüpfer, Theo Stich, Yves Yersin
A series of short films about swiss history in the 2nd world war.

Komiker by Markus Imboden
Roni Beck is a man whose only thought in life is to become a professional comedian, but who due to his lack of success must live hidden in his mother's appartment in an old people's home.

Marcello Marcello (D) by Denis Rabaglia
Italy, 1956. In the picturesque island of Amatrello, a unique custom has developed, one in which a father determines his daughter's first rendezvous based on the presents he receives.

Nicolas Bouvier, 22 Hospital Street by Christoph Kühn
Kuhn’s film tells how writer and photographer Nicolas Bouvier had to leave his home town of Geneva in order to find himself: back in 1955, after a two-year journey through the Balkans, Turkey, Iran and half of Asia, Bouvier arrives at the southern tip of

Oeschenen by Bernhard Giger
After several years as a big shot city lawyer Christian Aellig returns home for the funeral of his mother. Village gossips have spread a vicious rumour that she was murdered by Christian’s father.

Opération Shakespeare à la Vallée de Joux by Anne Cuneo
The Compagnie du Clédar, in an effort to make Shakespeare better known, commissions a play all about the great dramatist and out of nowhere creates an Elizabethan theatre. An entire valley throws itself into the project to finance and build the theatre.

La petite chambre (F) by Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
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.

Die Schönheiten des Alpsteins by Thomas Rickenmann
About the small beauties in the alps.

Der Sittlichkeitsverbrecher by Franz Schnyder
In the center of Zurich, a small girl disappears. Later, it is found by the police, raped and upset.

Spiele der Macht - 11011 Berlin by Markus Imboden
The master of political science Sara M. Kardow is learning the difference between theory and life. When she starts a job as consultant of the german chancellor, she gets ownership of secrets that give her unpredicted power.

Die Käserei in der Vehfreude by Franz Schnyder
The farmers of a village decide to postpone the construction of a new school in profit of a concentration to cheese production. From a novel by Jeremias Gotthelf.

Ursula oder das unwerte Leben by Reni Mertens, Walter Marti
The film shows that childern can be educated by their human nature. Ursula is blind and deaf. He shows the potential of developement which is in each human being.

Anna Göldin by Gertrud Pinkus
The last witch to be burned in Switzerland in 1781.

Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten by Vadim Jendreyko
A fascinating world of culture and humanity at the heart of which the literary text is essential. 5 “elephants” = 5 great books by Dostoyevsky.

Gerhard Meier - Das Wolkenschattenboot by 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-.

Arme Seelen by Edwin Beeler
The filmmaker travels to the mysterious land of the “poor souls”. He visits eyewitnesses in rural areas of Central Switzerland. They offer their account of mystifying experiences in connection with the afterlife.

Nel giardino dei suoni by Nicola Bellucci
The film is a touching, poetic exploration of the relationship between mind, body and sound, and a cinematic journey to the borders of communication.