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Swiss Films in the movie theatres

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A ROAD NOT TAKEN Christina Hemauer (2010)
Basel Vorstellungen Do, Fr, So, Mo, Di, Mi | Info

AISHEEN (STILL ALIVE IN GAZA) Nicolas Wadimoff (2010)
“Where's the ghost town?”, asked the little boy to the theme park attendant. “It's there, right there. But it has been bombed… Do you want to see it?” It is with these words that the film begins - an impressionist journey through a devastated Gaza.
La Chaux-de-Fonds Vorstellungen Do, Fr, Sa, So | Info

ANGRY MONK Luc Schaedler (2005)
Schaedler's film tells the fascinating story of Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel whose robes ultimately proved to be too constricting for his imagination and intellect.
Winterthur Vorstellungen So | DVD | Trailer

BAZAR Patricia Plattner (2009)
Gabrielle is a sixty-year-old woman who leads a full life, enjoying her friends, her daughter Elvire and her profession as an antique dealer, which she truly loves.
Aubonne Vorstellungen Di | Info

DER BERGFÜHRER Eduard Probst (1917)
The old mountain guide Lorenz has disappeared after an accident. His son Stephan replaces him, but gets distracted by the seductive Rita.
Bern Vorstellungen Di | DVD

BREATH MADE VISIBLE: ANNA HALPRIN Ruedi Gerber (2009)
Since seven decades Anna Halprin, a pioneer of dance from the US, in her work and performances searches for answers to the question: How can we closely link life and dance?
Carouge Vorstellungen Do, Fr, Sa, So, Mo, Di | Info

BÖDÄLÄ - DANCE THE RHYTHM Gitta Gsell (2010)
Did you know that swiss dancers are leadin step dancers? A fast-paced film about people whose feet are their primitive and powerful instrument of artistic expression.
Fribourg, Genève, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel Vorstellungen Do, Fr, Sa, So, Mo, Di | Info | Trailer

CLEVELAND VS. WALL STREET Jean-Stéphane Bron (2010)
Zürich Vorstellungen Mi | Info

COEUR ANIMAL Séverine Cornamusaz (2009)
…and suddenly, he thinks only of her, his wife. This person whom he doesn't know how to love and who is now falling prey to a gnawing disease.
Brienz Vorstellungen Mo, Di, Mi | Info

COSA VOGLIO DI PIU Silvio Soldini (2010)
Anna lives with Alessio. She is a clerk and no longer dreams of anything besides what she has. She meets Domenico, a married man.
Genève, Heerbrugg Vorstellungen Mo | Info

DAVID WANTS TO FLY David Sieveking (2010)
David, a young filmmaker, follows his idol, David Lynch, into the world of Transcendental Meditation (TM). He traces the footsteps of the founder of the movement, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Thusis Vorstellungen Fr, Sa, So | Info

LA DENTELLIERE Claude Goretta (1977)
As much as anything, it's probably the intriguing ambivalence of a narrative in which connections are never overtly made that turned this into an unexpected box-office hit.
Carouge Vorstellungen So | DVD

DHARAVI, SLUM FOR SALE Lutz Konermann (2009)
Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum, is to be knocked down, changing the lives of up to 1 million people forever. When the bulldozers move in, anything can happen.
Zürich Vorstellungen So | DVD

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.
Sainte-Croix, Zürich Vorstellungen Sa, So | Info

GIULIAS VERSCHWINDEN Christoph Schaub (2009)
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.
Lausanne Vorstellungen So | DVD

GURU - BHAGWAN, HIS SECRETARY & HIS BODYGUARD Sabine Gisiger, Beat Häner (2010)
At the beginning of the 1970s Hugh Milne listens to a cassette of the spiritual teacher, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and makes a trip from England to India in a search to find himself. Sheela Patel is taken by her father to meet the charismatic guru.
Zürich Vorstellungen So | Info

HOW ABOUT LOVE Stefan Haupt (2010)
Fritz Reinhart is a successful surgeon in Zurich suddenly faced with the suffering in a refugee camp on the Burmese border during his holiday in Thailand. Being a doctor, he is confronted with the issue of providing immediate emergency aid.
Baden, Basel, Bern, Biel/Bienne, Luzern, St. Gallen, Winterthur, Zuchwil, Zürich Vorstellungen Do, Fr, Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi | Info

HUGO KOBLET - PEDALEUR DE CHARME Daniel von Aarburg, Daniel von Aarburg (2010)
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.
Pfäffikon Vorstellungen Mo, Di, Mi | DVD | Trailer

IM BANNE DES ADLERS Jean-Rolf Pieren (2004)
Adelboden Vorstellungen Di | Info

JUNG UND JENISCH Karoline Arn, Martina Rieder (2010)
A film about young Yenish gypsies who live their culture among the settled populace in spite of many obstacles. It tries to answer the question as to why more and more young Swiss gypsies are on the road again and what their future looks like.
Zürich Vorstellungen So | Info

THE MARSDREAMERS Richard Dindo (2009)
A film about Americans who dream of going to Mars one day, who firmly believe that this is absolutely necessary and that the human race must explore the universe.
Chexbres Vorstellungen Di, Mi | Info

NACHT DER GAUKLER Michael Steiner, Pascal Walder (1997)
Klaus Koska is being pursued. After he happens to witness a murder and discovers that no one at the ministry is prepared to believe his story, he barricades himself in his apartment.
Altdorf, Bern, Herisau, Luzern, Rapperswil, Zürich Vorstellungen Do, Fr, Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi | Info

NORDWAND Philipp Stölzl (2008)
1936, a German team of two men roped together and an Austrian team compete to become the first to climb the north face of the Eiger.Fame and Olympic gold await the winners.
Muralto Vorstellungen Fr, Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi | DVD

IL NUOVO SUD DELL'ITALIA Pino Esposito (2010)
A cinematic reflection on how Southern Italy is changing. What was once a locus of emigration has become a locus of immigration due to the influx of migrants from Africa, Romania or the Ukraine who have come to Italy.
Zürich Vorstellungen So | Info

PANAMERICANA - LIFE AT THE LONGEST ROAD ON EARTH Jonas Frei (2010)
Sargans, Schaffhausen, Uznach, Uzwil, Wattwil, Werdenberg, Wil Vorstellungen So, Mo, Di, Mi | Info

PANE E TULIPANI Silvio Soldini (2000)
Left behind on the motorway by the coach in which her family was travelling to Paestum, Rosalba decides without giving the matter much thought to offer herself a little holiday in Venice
Zürich Vorstellungen Mi | DVD

PIZZA BETHLEHEM Bruno Moll (2010)
Bethlehem is a neighbourhood in the city of Bern where immigrants from over 30 nations have settled. At the center of this film is the female junior team of the Bethlehem Football Club.
Belp, Bern, Biel/Bienne Vorstellungen Fr, Sa, So | DVD

RIO SONATA Georges Gachot (2010)
Bern, Zürich Vorstellungen Di, Mi | Info

ROCKSTEADY: THE ROOTS OF REGGAE Stascha Bader (2009)
On the Caribbean island of Jamaica a kind of music was born that took over the whole world. It originated in the slums and inspired generations to believe in the possibility of a better world and to fight for it.
Le Sentier Vorstellungen Di | DVD

SEED WARRIORS Mirjam von Arx, Katharina von Flotow (2010)
By 2050 temperatures worldwide are expected to rise by at least 2 degrees. This will result in a drop in food production by up to 30% in some regions. But global food demand will have doubled. How will we feed the world? I
Basel, Bern, Zürich Vorstellungen Do, Fr, Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi | Info

UNSER GARTEN EDEN Mano Khalil (2010)
eople from 20 different nations use the 148 plots in the allotment gardens in Bern. With their love for Mother Earth, they form a microcosm filled with dreams, seclusion, homesickness, joy and conflicts.
Reinach Vorstellungen Sa, So, Di, Mi | Info

SIGNERS KOFFER - UNTERWEGS MIT ROMAN SIGNER Peter Liechti (1995)
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.
Zuoz Vorstellungen Do | DVD

TOUMAST Dominique Margot (2010)
Klosters Vorstellungen Mi | Info

LA VOCATION D'ANDRE CAREL Jean Choux (1925)
La Chaux-de-Fonds Vorstellungen Fr | Info

WÄTTERSCHMÖCKER Thomas Horat (2010)
This film portrays the lives of seven weather prophets from Central Switzerland who predict the weather six months in advance.
Brugg, Einsiedeln, Herisau, Konolfingen, Luzern, Schwyz, Wattwil, Zürich Vorstellungen Do, Fr, Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi | Info

ZARA Ayten Mutlu Saray (2009)
A film about the state of people who are forced to live their exile as an outer event, but also as an inner destiny.
Bern Vorstellungen Do, Fr, Sa, So, Mo, Di, Mi | Info

JUNG UND JENISCH am 5. September zum dritten 2010-09-05 (German)

CLEVELAND VERSUS WALL STREET von Jean-Stéphane Bron im Kino 2010-09-09 (German)

Soirée Michel Soutter à la Cinémathèque 2010-09-15 (French)

CLEVELAND VERSUS WALL STREET de Jean-Stéphane Bron au cinéma 2010-09-15 (French)

6e Festival du film français d'Helvétie 15.-19.9. Bienne 2010-09-15 (French)

HUGO KOBLET - PEDALEUR DE CHARME von Daniel von Aarburg im Kino 2010-09-16 (German)

D'UNE RIVE A L'AUTRE von Aline Brechbühl in Luzern 2010-09-19 (German)

Carte blanche au Festival de Locarno au Centre Culturel Suisse à Paris 2010-09-22 (French)

6. Zurich Film Festival 23.9.-3.10. 2010-09-23 (German)

180° von Cihan Inan im Kino 2010-09-30 (German)

16e Cinéma Tous Ecrans Genève 1.-7.11. 2010-11-01 (French)

14. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 10.-14.11. 2010-11-10 (German)

FILM SOCIALISME von Jean-Luc Godard im Kino 2010-11-18 (German)

46. Solothurner Filmtage 20.-27.1. 2011-01-20 (German)

25e Festival International de Film de Fribourg 19.3.-26.3. 2011-03-19 (German)

Visions du Réel Nyon 2011 du 7 au 13 avril 2011-04-07 (French)

64. Festival del film Locarno 3.8.-13.8. 2011-08-03 (German)

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Angry Monk by Luc Schaedler
Schaedler's film tells the fascinating story of Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel whose robes ultimately proved to be too constricting for his imagination and intellect.

Bird's Nest – Herzog & de Meuron In China by Christoph Schaub, Michael Schindhelm
Schaub and Schindhelm’s documentary follows two Swiss star architects on two very different projects: the national stadium for the Olympic summer games in Peking 2008 and a city area in the provincial town of Jinhua, China.

Bruno Ganz. Behind Me by Norbert Wiedmer
A three-year journey with actor Bruno Ganz. He plays various roles in various places, but he also plays Bruno Ganz – filming and directing friends.

Building the Gherkin by Mirjam von Arx
Can a single building impact the career of an architect, the image of a global company and even the skyline of a big city? Just a month and a day after the disastrous attack on the World Trade Center in New York, the first steel beam of a new tower is ere

Le dernier été by Claude Goretta
1934, Georges Mandel becomes minister of the post office in France. This is the moment for him to act. To act especially against the growing power of the nazis in Germany. He will pay with his life for his convictions.

Dharavi, Slum for Sale by Lutz Konermann
Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum, is to be knocked down, changing the lives of up to 1 million people forever. When the bulldozers move in, anything can happen.

Downtown Switzerland by Christian Davi, Stefan Haupt, Kaspar Kasics, Fredi M. Murer
Zurich in the autumn of 2003: an insidious change of climate, which had more to do with politics than with the weather, made Christian Davi, Stefan Haupt, Kaspar Kasics, and Fredi M. Murer go on a spontaneous trail-hunting tour of their city.

Der Fürsorger by Lutz Konermann
A social worker has financial problems and cheats to get money. His stories work at the beginning, but he will fall very low.

Giorni e nuvole by Silvio Soldini
Michele and Elsa have a 20-year-old daughter, Alice, and all the material comforts for Elsa to throw in her job and follow her old dream of studying art history. But Michele admits that he hasn’t worked for two months.

Giulias Verschwinden (DVD) by 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.

Grounding by Michael Steiner, Tobias Fueter
The demise of airline Swissair in 2001 was a huge blow to Switzerland’s economy and to the country’s morale. It was a sad day for Swiss history when the airline’s fleet was grounded on 2 October 2001.

Happy New Year by Christoph Schaub
A nocturnal taxi ride through Zurich to an empty villa and via encounters with a lost dog and a late-night police shift as well as a babysitter problem: the story gives nine people under Zurich’s skies a chance to grab life by the balls and start anew.

Irène Schweizer by Gitta Gsell
Music is and always has been Irene Schweizer’s whole life. In her film, Gsell gets some rare one-to-one time with the internationally renowned Swiss pianist Irene Schweizer, whose music has roots in Jazz and improvisational music.

Lieber Brad by Lutz Konermann
That a member of an inconspicuous family somewhere in the province should fall head over heels in love is not in itself remarkable. But when the family consists of a father single-handedly bringing up two daughters...

Ein Lied für Argyris by Stefan Haupt
In 1944, four-year-old Argyris Sfountouris survived a brutal massacre committed by the German occupying forces, in which he lost his parents and thirty more relatives. The Greek orphan was sent to the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in Trogen.

La Maternité des HUG by Richard Dindo
With his discrete gaze, filmmaker Richard Dindo observes the busy comings and goings of a maternity ward in Geneva. His uplifting film depicts the joy and desire of giving life and is Dindo’s fourth film about the Hospital of Geneva.

Mein Name ist Eugen (international) by Michael Steiner
From the literary classic by Klaus Schädelin, MEIN NAME IST EUGEN is a coming of age story set in the 1960s, and tells of 12-year-old Eugen and Wrigley's last summer of adventure.

Müetis Kapital by Martina Rieder, Karoline Arn
Rieder and Arn’s documentary portrays a simple and courageous woman, who stood up to life’s particular challenges in her day. A woman who continues to discuss and analyse vital matters and who lives according to her views.

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

Pane e Tulipani by Silvio Soldini
Left behind on the motorway by the coach in which her family was travelling to Paestum, Rosalba decides without giving the matter much thought to offer herself a little holiday in Venice

Les petites couleurs by Patricia Plattner
Christelle, a hairdresser whose husband beats her, runs away after a violent quarrel. She ends up in a delapidated motel called the Galaxy, frequented by truck drivers and travelling salesmen.

Abxang by Mirjam von Arx
Polo Hofer and his Schmetterband were in the limelight for 18 years - on and off stage – until the Swiss rock singer decided to break up his very successful band.

Quattro giorni con Vivian by Silvio Soldini
Filmmaker Silvio Soldini was commissioned to make a documentary about the Italian poetess Vivian Lamarque. She receives him at her home, opens up her lively and somewhat disorganised life to him and together they visit the writer’s favourite places.

Sartre - L'âge des passions by Claude Goretta
Claude Goretta depicts both Sartre’s life and his philosophical, literary and political commitments. He retraces the great moments of his biography, which was shaped by exceptional encounters and romances.

Sennentuntschi by Michael Steiner
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.

Sketches of Kerala
3 films documenty films from Laurent Aubert, Ravi Gopalan Nair, Damian Plandolit, Patricia Plattner, Johnathan Watts

Thérèse et Léon by Claude Goretta
During the electoral campaogn of 1936, Léon Blum has been agressed by antisemite extremists. He wants to quit politics, but his wife Thérèse convinces him to stay to fight.

Hugo Koblet - Pedaleur de charme by Daniel von Aarburg
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.

Rocksteady by Stascha Bader
On the Caribbean island of Jamaica a kind of music was born that took over the whole world. It originated in the slums and inspired generations to believe in the possibility of a better world and to fight for it.

Bergführer Lorenz by Eduard Probst
The old mountain guide Lorenz has disappeared after an accident. His son Stephan replaces him, but gets distracted by the seductive Rita.

Angry Monk by Luc Schaedler
Schaedler's film tells the fascinating story of Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel whose robes ultimately proved to be too constricting for his imagination and intellect.

Dharavi, Slum for Sale by Lutz Konermann
Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum, is to be knocked down, changing the lives of up to 1 million people forever. When the bulldozers move in, anything can happen.

Nordwand by Philipp Stölzl
1936, a German team of two men roped together and an Austrian team compete to become the first to climb the north face of the Eiger.Fame and Olympic gold await the winners.

Die Spitzenklöpplerin by Claude Goretta
As much as anything, it's probably the intriguing ambivalence of a narrative in which connections are never overtly made that turned this into an unexpected box-office hit.

Pizza Bethlehem by Bruno Moll
Bethlehem is a neighbourhood in the city of Bern where immigrants from over 30 nations have settled. At the center of this film is the female junior team of the Bethlehem Football Club.

Signers Koffer by 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.