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 A portrait of a son of European immigrants, a military man who turned revolutionary: Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was elected 1950 President of Guatemala. Arbenz attempted to abolish stiff, absolute colonial structures in which the majority, Indios, were expected to live in abject poverty, subjected to the social stratification upheld by Guatemala's ruling class. |
 Karim (Matthias Fankhauser) is sure to be of extraterrestrial origin, an idea his mother dismisses as mere fantasy. Instead, and as a sign of his family's earthly origin, she assertively hands him a bottle of lemonade named «Vimto», a brand the Patwa family themselves had been brewing during the fifties. |
 A group of actors making their way to Rome ends up going astray due to the fog, darkness, ice and their own feelings of guilt, becoming completely lost in the sibylline hills. "Clemens Klopfenstein directs this oblique, strikingly-shot film about actors in groups of two and three on their way to the Goethe Institute in Rome. |
 Luis (18) visits his father for the first time in years in a remote vacation house in the mountains. Trying to demonstrate self-confidence and the absolute certainty that he wants nothing more than money for his studies, Luis unexpectedly meets his father's new family, whose existence he neither imagined nor knew about. |
 Richard's journey started a long time ago. At the age of 19, on a holiday abroad, he plunged into a world that existed only in his mind. A documentary performance featuring Richard and his extreme feelings between black and white. |
 Swiss Migros supermarket chain founder Gottlieb Duttweiler was a man of great character: by disposition a democrat, but a dictator by temperament. Both a visionary and a coolly calculating realist, he was a wartime profiteer in his younger years, before becoming a humanist. |
 Up to the middle of the 19th century poor Alpine farmers in Ticino sold their children as chimney sweeps in Milan. This is also the fate of the young Giorgio. He has to climb up and down dark chimneys, scraping away the soot with his bare hands. |
 S'MARGRITLI UND D'SOLDATE was part of a series of military films of which the best known is FÜSILIER WIPF (1938). Margritli is a waitress working in a French-speaking Swiss village during the war. |
 When successful stock broker Alfred Böhler leaves for work on a foggy day, he has no idea what dramatic turn his life is about to take. On the journey into work he has a major car accident and ends up in intensive care, fighting for his life. As his wife sits by his side, praying for him to recover, Alfred embarks as an eagle to a very different journey. |
 A musical journey through the world of tones, sounds and noises: with Manfred Eicher, the outstanding producer of contemporary music. |
 1935, in a valley of the Black Forest. The cattle dealer Levi comes to the valley to do business ? just like last year, except that this time he has made up his mind to ask for the hand and heart of Lisbeth Horger, whose father is a farmer. But he finds that the valley has changed. |
 Difficult economic times lead Eva from Brandenburg to put her relationship on hold. She ends up working and sharing her fate with a complicated, multicultural group of people in the Swiss Alps. Here she meets Daniel, a stubborn Alpine farmer, and Mehmed, who would like to marry a German citizen, and experiences a cool but fabulous summer. |
 The young underground fighter EMINE has fled to Switzerland from her homeland of Turkey, waiting in the transition home for a decision regarding asylum. Torn between memories of the past and the desire to start a new life, she discovers previously suppressed emotions and longings. |
 Eva Gruber (40) and her husband Max (45) lead an unagitated married life. Both are firmly established in the St. Gallen cultural scene; he as an artist and unconventional but popular drawing teacher, she as a reflected cultural journalist. Max has just finished a sculpture for an old people's home and the party for it is coming up. |
 “La bataille d'Alger” chronicles the story of the 1957 conflict in Algiers between General Massu’s paratroopers and FLN fighters. War veteran Yacef Saadi was the driving force for the film. On 19 June 1965, when Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo began shooting, Colonel Boumedienne seized power from then President Ben Bella. |
 A love tragedy. A father in search of forgiveness revisits places, emotions and mistakes from the past and in the process finds meaning and deliverance from paralysing rigidity. Instead of constantly focusing on his daughter's death, he finally gets in touch with her life. |
 The story of Colorado sheriff Nolan Sharpless, who risks everything when the kidnapping of a seemingly innocent Swiss tourist turns into a hunt for one of America's most elusive career criminals. |
 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. She increasingly has dealings with a clientele from the worlds of business, politics, the military and the media, trusting her affairs to a shyster lawyer and his woman friend. |
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 In 1931, the young piano teacher Karl Ulrich Schnabel decided to make a film. With modest means but strong support from his friends and family, he shot an early adaption of the fairy tale “The Cold Heart” in the surroundings of Berlin. Franz Schnyder, later one of the most successful Swiss directors, starred among a group of young people having their careers ahead of them. |
 Another bear has suddenly appeared in a small village in the Grison Alps. The renowned Swiss bear expert, Urs Nägeli, sends his German assistant, Paula Kreuzer, to Valbensa to make an appraisal of how dangerous the animal is. There she meets Beat Geser, the only big game hunter in Switzerland. |
 This is a documentary on Paul Grüninger (who died in 1972), the St. Gall police chief who before the war saved the lives of several hundred Austrian Jews and consequently lost his job and faced a judicial dressing-down. The film uses the same St. Gall District Court room in which judgement was passed on Grüninger in 1940. |
 Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss teacher, abandons his lessons and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself. |
 For the first time since the events, they have a chance to confront each other: Charles Sonabend and Fritz Straub, Sabine Sonabend and Sister Anne-Marie. Some 50 years earlier Straub was responsible for the Swiss border post at which the Sonabend family was deported to Germany, into the hands of the Nazis. |
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 15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, she is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful than her. |
 As far as Weintraub, an elderly Jewish New Yorker, is concerned, all Arabs are terrorists. Hayat, a young Palestinian woman, considers all Jews to be thieves and murderers. |
 Complete with camera on his shoulder, the director documents the efforts of three of the most colourful characters in Bern's second-hand scene, as they strive for self-determination and entrepreneurial freedom. |
 This film is a comedy 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. Retail therapy ostensibly helps, but then she meets a stranger with whom she prefers to spend the evening more than with her friends. |
 A Swiss sailing yacht comes across a manoeuvrable refugee boat in the Mediterranean. The few refugees who make it on board the yacht take control. But the Swiss call the Libyan coast guard for help and realise too late that this was a mistake... |
 The almost completely skeletonised body of a child is found in the undergrowth of a remote forest near Zurich. Detectives Claudia Studer and Stefan Huber are assigned to investigate the murder. The only clue to the perpetrator is a lighter found near the body. |
 With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Granz) sees it. |
 Nearly six million people around the world now practice Transcendental Meditation (TM). David, a young filmmaker in search of inspiration, also wants to try meditation. His role model, the legendary director David Lynch, assures him in person that TM is a source of creativity and success. |
 Anja Kofmel already admired her cousin Chris as a little girl. His mysterious death in the midst of the wars in Yugoslavia in 1992 still keeps her occupied. Especially as the young Swiss journalist wore the uniform of an international mercenary group at the time of his death. |
 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. With that he had reached the zenith of his career. |
 The painter Balz, who sits jealously in Italy and harasses Clara, the actress, by telephone because of a lover. Balz wishes the rival all bad - and promptly he falls unhappily on his nose. |
 A bitter-sweet sentimental comedy. The friendship between two girls. Marie is Swiss, Filipa is a Portuguese origin. One is an eternal student. The other is getting married. After Marie's love affair breaks up, Filipa suggests they spend a month together in Portugal in her family. |
Since weeks it's cold and wet. It's already late, Karl Winter is on his way home. Under dark circumstances he accidentally meets a woman of mysterious fascination - Martha... And so begins a love story of fatal dynamics which throws Karl far off the tracks of reason. |
This film is a comedy 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. Retail therapy ostensibly helps, but then she meets a stranger with whom she prefers to spend the evening more than with her friends. |
1935, in a valley of the Black Forest. The cattle dealer Levi comes to the valley to do business ? just like last year, except that this time he has made up his mind to ask for the hand and heart of Lisbeth Horger, whose father is a farmer. But he finds that the valley has changed. |
The story of Colorado sheriff Nolan Sharpless, who risks everything when the kidnapping of a seemingly innocent Swiss tourist turns into a hunt for one of America's most elusive career criminals. |
A bitter-sweet sentimental comedy. The friendship between two girls. Marie is Swiss, Filipa is a Portuguese origin. One is an eternal student. The other is getting married. After Marie's love affair breaks up, Filipa suggests they spend a month together in Portugal in her family. |
Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss teacher, abandons his lessons and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself. |
Michel, a 40-year-old engineer, is stressed out. He dashes from meeting to meeting, consumed by a life that he’s forgotten to savor. But when his father Robert, refusing to die in hospital, escapes by the balcony and runs away into the mountains, Michel is forced to run after him. |
The painter Balz, who sits jealously in Italy and harasses Clara, the actress, by telephone because of a lover. Balz wishes the rival all bad - and promptly he falls unhappily on his nose. |
The almost completely skeletonised body of a child is found in the undergrowth of a remote forest near Zurich. Detectives Claudia Studer and Stefan Huber are assigned to investigate the murder. The only clue to the perpetrator is a lighter found near the body. |
Up to the middle of the 19th century poor Alpine farmers in Ticino sold their children as chimney sweeps in Milan. This is also the fate of the young Giorgio. He has to climb up and down dark chimneys, scraping away the soot with his bare hands. |
A love tragedy. A father in search of forgiveness revisits places, emotions and mistakes from the past and in the process finds meaning and deliverance from paralysing rigidity. Instead of constantly focusing on his daughter's death, he finally gets in touch with her life. |
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. She increasingly has dealings with a clientele from the worlds of business, politics, the military and the media, trusting her affairs to a shyster lawyer and his woman friend. |
In the changing rooms of a football stadium, a coach is giving a pep-talk to a very strange football team of Philosophers who are getting ready to take on a dangerous team of Physicists. A hilarious summary of Western philosophy from Socrates through Hegel, Kant, Rousseau, to Marx and Maradona. |