Cinematography: Matthias Kälin

Direction Djibril Diop Mambéty

Cast Ami Diakhate · Djibril Diop Mambéty · Mansour Diouf · Calgou Fall

Plot Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.

Direction Idrissa Ouedraogo

Cast Fatimata Sanga · Noufou Ouedraogo · Roukietou Barry · Adama Ouédraogo

Plot A small african village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba'...

Direction Georges Gachot

Cast María Bethânia · Caetano Veloso · Chico Buarque de Hollanda · Gilberto Gil

Direction Donatello Dubini · Fosco Dubini

Cast Jeanette Hain · Nina Petri · Monika Arnó · Vassilios Avgouteas

Plot In 1939, the author Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the ethnologist Ella Maillart travel together by car to Kabul, but each is in pursuit of her own project. Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was...

Direction Patricia Plattner

Cast Gilles Tschudi · Jean-Pierre Gos · Christian Gregori · Anouk Grinberg

Plot 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....

Direction Raoul Peck

Cast Patrice Lumumba

Direction Georges Gachot

Cast Martha Argerich

Plot The director Georges Gachot has a delightful and stylish gab with the great Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich entwined with wonderful excerpts of her presentations and rehearsals. Along the conversation in...

Direction Heinz Bütler

Cast Henri Cartier-Bresson · Alexander Brooks · Robert Delpire · Isabelle Huppert

Plot Heinz Bütler interviews Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) late in life. Cartier-Bresson pulls out photographs, comments briefly, and holds them up to Bütler's camera. A few others share observations, including Isabelle Huppert,...

Direction Andreas Hoessli · Isabella Huser

Plot This journey through time touches the genesis of the atomic bomb, the military tests at the end of the war, the functioning of the lie detector, the discovery of the...

Direction Sabine Gisiger · Beat Häner

Plot In England, young Hugh Milne hears the voice of spiritual teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on an audiotape and travels to India in search of his own self.

Direction Léonce Ngabo

Cast Joseph Kumbela · Marie Bunel · Aoua Sangare · Eric Depreter

Plot Gito is a young African intellectual returning home from France with numerous academic degrees and ministerial ambitions. Gradually his ambitions are crushed by the daily realities of his country. Gito...

Direction Patricia Plattner

Cast Anne-Laure Luisoni · Rita Blanco · Maria Filomena · Augusto

Plot A film about two young women, trying to decide how to go on with their lives and loves: Marie just dumped her boyfriend, who's married and can see her just...

Direction Matthias von Gunten

Cast Peter Bichsel · Max Frisch · Günter Grass · Gottfried Honegger

Plot After Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Niklaus Meienberg died, Max Frisch was the last of the big Swiss intellectuals actively pursuing this role and being perceived as such by those around him,...

Direction Peter Liechti

Plot A hunter in a remote and idyllic forest stumbles on a make shift tent fashioned from sheets of plastic and containing the mummified remains of a corpse. A detailed journal...

Direction Donatello Dubini · Fosco Dubini

Cast Helmut Berger · Max Tidof · Michael Schiller · Dietmar Mössmer

Plot In 1881 Ludwig of Bavaria goes on a cruise on a Swiss lake. He takes with him a famous actor, Josef Kainz, to act out the scenes from a story...