Cinematography: Pio Corradi

Direction Richard Dindo

Cast Bernard Bloch · Christiane Cohendy · Madeleine Marie · Albert Delpy

Direction Martin Witz

Plot By coincidence rather then by design the swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943. He realizes that he is dealing with a powerful molecule...

Direction Fredi M. Murer

Cast Thomas Nock · Johanna Lier · Dorothea Moritz · Rolf Illig

Direction Fredi M. Murer

Cast Bruno Ganz · Teo Gheorghiu · Julika Jenkins · Urs Jucker

Plot Vitus is a boy who almost seems to be from another planet: he has the hearing of a bat, plays the piano like a virtuoso and studies encyclopaedias at the...

Direction Peter Fischli · David Weiss

Plot Inside a warehouse, a precarious 70-100 feet long structure has been constructed using various items. When this is set in motion, a chain reaction ensues. Fire, water, law of gravity...

Direction Men Lareida

Plot On the day of Jo “Seppi” Siffert’s funeral in 1971, 50,000 people converged in the streets of his hometown, Fribourg. Even today he is still considered to be one of...

Direction Xavier Koller

Cast Ulrich Noethen · Heike Makatsch · Jasmin Tabatabai · Marcus Thomas

Plot The summerly adventures of Kurt (Tucholsky) and girl friend staying in a Swedish castle whilst the political changes in Germany in the thirties.

Direction Nicolas Gessner

Cast Julian Sands · Stacey Dash · Ed Lauter · Ned Beatty

Plot An innocent fishing trip in the hills of Tennessee entangles Wolfgang Leighton in a murderous web of intrigue, sparked by a torrid encounter with the provocative Sally Lomas. Inexplicably pursued...

Direction Ulrike Koch

Cast Margen · Pargen · Zopon · Bopsa

Plot In Tibet's Changtang region, nomads harvest salt to buy barley. A clan prepares four of its men for an annual trek to Lake Tsento, where they rake salt from shoals...

Direction Georges Gachot

Cast Martinho da Vila · Ney Matogrosso · Nana Mouskouri · Moyseis Marques

Plot Samba, together with football and beautiful woman, is what springs to mind when we think of Brazil. We wish to transcend such cliches and take Samba at its word, for...

Direction Christian Labhart

Cast Bruno Ganz · Mona Fueter

Plot Giovanni Segantini created, usually under the open sky, monumental works in the idealised image of nature of an alpine landscape. In the course of his lifetime he climbed ever higher...

Direction Thomas Koerfer

Cast Armin Mueller-Stahl · Katharina Thalbach · Matthias Habich · Krystyna Janda

Plot Andres is afraid of his father, the ruthless weapons manufacturer François Korb, and is disappointed by his mother, Claire Korb, who is preoccupied with her desire for her brother-in-law, Albert...

Direction Eric Bergkraut

Cast Mikhail Khodorkovsky · Leonid Nevzlin

Plot Mikhail Khodorkovsky is back to challenge Putin’s grip on power. Once Russia’s richest man and head of energy giant Yukos, he spent a decade in jail after challenging the Kremlin....

Direction Richard Dindo

Plot 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...

Direction Franz Rickenbach

Cast Robert Lévy-Borer · Renée Lévy-Sommer · Liette Lévy-Nordmann · Rose Sommer-Weill

Plot Through the life stories of the last seven members of the Israelite community of Delémont, the film shows the slow but inexorable dying out of the last Jewish countryside community...

Direction Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf

Plot The congress of the penguins is set in a land of dreams and nightmares: the Antarctic. Only a handful of people live in the ice desert surrounded by stormy seas....

Direction Robert Frank · Rudy Wurlitzer

Cast Kevin J. O'Connor · Harris Yulin · Tom Waits · Bulle Ogier

Plot A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to strike a deal to make himself rich and famous.

Direction Stefan Schwietert

Plot Over 50 years ago Marcel and Catherine Cellier travelled for the first time behind the Iron Curtain, where they collected the best music in Eastern Europe for years. Marcel Cellier...

Direction Richard Dindo

Direction Robert Müller

Plot Until recently, charcoal burning was a widespread practice in Europe. In Switzerland, the production of charcoal supplied an important source of income for people in the woodland regions of the...