Cinematography: Gabriel Sandru

Direction Maria Brendle

Cast Alina Turdumamatova · Madina Talipbek · Nurbek Esengazy Uulu · Taalaykan Abazova

Plot A young Kyrgyz woman is kidnapped and forced to marry. A drama about the desire for freedom in the clutches of a tradition.

Direction Milagros Mumenthaler

Cast Carla Crespo · Rosario Bléfari · Malena Moiron · Juan Barberini

Plot Inès, 35 years old, is a photographer. She is in an emotionally fragile phase and begins putting together a book of personal poems and photographs. Gradually, the process of bringing...

Direction Andreas Fontana

Cast Fabrizio Rongione · Alexandre Trocki · Stéphanie Cléau · Elli Medeiros

Plot Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared...

Direction Simon Jaquemet

Cast Judith Hofmann · Christian Kaiser · Anna Tenta · Urs-Peter Wolters

Plot Ruth is committed to her work, her family, and her faith, but when an ex-lover is released from prison and comes back into her life, her convictions are threatened.

Direction Lorenz Merz

Cast Gustavo del Cielo · Rafael Segura · Gustavo Daniel Tulic · Adriano Pagliara

Plot The sun beats down, a day is passing. Two old men are waiting for a sign out on the sea. Roaming children are discovering the world. A young man fights...

Direction Caterina Mona

Cast Lula Mebrahtu · Tedros Teclebrhan · Hermela Tekleab · Fanuel Mengstab

Plot Semret is an Eritrean single mom who works at a Zurich hospital. When her teenage daughter pressures her to learn more about her origins, Semret refuses confrontation. But in order...

Direction Esen Isik

Cast Beren Tuna · Oguzhan Sancar · Bekir Sevenkan · Baris Atay

Plot An ordinary day in the megacity of Istanbul: Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues in the streets, Hayat is controlled by her husband and transsexual Ebru sells her body. All three...

Direction Esen Isik

Cast Kida Khodr Ramadan · Beren Tuna · Ismail Can Metin · Serkan Ercan

Plot Abdullah has lost his son to the “Holy War”. He travels from Switzerland to the Turkish-Syrian border to bury him. There he meets Malik, a Syrian boy without family. This...

Direction Esen Isik

Cast Lucy Betulius · Nalin Akman · Nina Hesse Bernhard · Ersoy Yildirim

Plot Different cultural backgrounds and the sterile apartment building in the suburbs are not Linda and Sevilay’s problem. The problem for these two 15-year-old friends is their messed up parents. What...

Direction Anna Luif

Cast Laura Tonke · Murali Perumal · Sugeetha Srividdunapathy · Anton Ponraja

Plot A young man falls in love with someone else, days before his arranged marriage to another woman.

Direction Matthias Huser

Cast Krzysztof Kiersznowski · Halina Skoczynska · Eryk Lubos