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 In 1891 a large number of Swiss emigrated to the Pecos Valley, a desert region in New Mexico. Intensive proaganda by a group of businessmen from Geneva had convinced them they could make their fortune there. More than 200 Swiss settlers - farmers, winegrowers and adventurers from good families - set out to seek the dazzling wealth they had been promised. |
 On the order of their spiritual leader, three young Islamists kidnap a group of actors who are about to go on tour with their latest show. When the kidnappers arrive at the place of detention, they find themselves cut off from their base. Ensues a 7-day no exit situation, in which both sides are forced to live together, confront each other and challenge their mutual prejudices. |
 Avi Mograbi’s family has lived between the three countries of Lebanon, Palestine and Israel for generations and witnessed the strife since the founding of the State of Israel: immigration to Israel, espionage charges, the two Lebanon Wars in 1982 and 2006, as well as the construction of the Israeli barrier. |
 It is summer in a small village in south-eastern Spain. A storm threatens to cause the river that runs through it to overflow again. A popular old belief claims that some women are predestined to disappear with each new flood, because they have the “water inside”. |
 Julie, young coloured women from Rose Hill on the Island of Mauritius, arrives in Switzerland to marry Marcel whom she has only seen on a photograph. But the marriage is a failure. Julie who feels totally lost is looked after by Jean who has fallen in love with her. |
 Alex, a young man of Chinese descent, feels like a free man on the top of a mountain, with his French girlfriend. But he suddenly has to face the mysterious death of his brother. He returns to his family in the Chinese district of Paris. The rites and tradition he is unable to follow reveal the full extent of his estrangement from his father’s heritage. |
 It begins with a dream about an impossible encounter between Avi Mograbi and his grandfather, Ibrahim, outside their Damascus home in 1920. What language did they speak? Avi's Arabic is rudimentary, while his grandfather Ibrahim had yet to learn Hebrew. In the dream, Avi's grandfather informs him that the family has decided to leave Syria for Palestine, Damascus for Tel-Aviv. |
 To stop an epidemic ravaging Africa, Dr. Kara extracts a medicine from a traditional remedy. He thinks he can produce it very cheaply. A multinational corporation has just released a competing drug, which is very expensive in research and development. The multinational sends a young researcher, Jérôme Blanc, to buy the African process. |
 How does one make wine from grapes? Following the rhythm of the four seasons of a wine grower's year, the film shows us the work, the worries and the joys of a family of wine growers and producers, the Potterats of Lavaux, Switzerland. Three generations who live and work together, keeping up old-time traditions. |