Soundtrack: Peter Bräker

Direction Peter Mettler

Plot A filmmaker's inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times. From Toronto, the scene of his childhood, Peter Mettler sets out on...

Direction Daniel Schweizer

Cast Laurel Aitken · Buster Bloodvessel · Jimmy Pursey · Ian Stuart

Plot Originally shot on mini DV, the film is a history and investigation into the skinhead cult movement in the U.S. and U.K. since the 1960s. The subjects range from lightweight...

Direction Fulvio Bernasconi · Christian Davi · Nadia Farès · Wageh George

Plot Documentary in 7 segments whose theme is "Multicultural Switzerland". The segments are: "Raclette Curry", "Was Wie Wann Wohin Gehört", "Home Alone?", "Hopp Schwyz", "Mixed Up", "Making of a Jew" and...

Direction Sabine Gisiger

Cast Jörg Sambeth

Plot In 1976 a massive explosion at chemicals factory Icmesa in the Italian Seveso had devastating consequences for neighbouring communities and their environment. Icmesa’s parent company was Givaudan, which in turn...

Direction Christoph Schaub

Cast Nils Althaus · Denise Virieux · Johanna Bantzer · Pascal Holzer

Plot Schaub’s film takes us on a nocturnal taxi ride through Zurich to an empty villa, and via encounters with a lost dog and a late-night police shift as well as...

Direction Christoph Schaub

Cast Sara Capretti · Mathias Gnädinger · Walo Lüönd · Stephen Sikder

Plot Franz Engi returns to the village where he grew up after having lived abroad for over 30 years, only to realise that things are entirely different. The school is about...

Direction Sabine Gisiger · Marcel Zwingli

Plot Odyssey of the fortune-teller Daniele von Arb who, aged sixteen, joined the revolutionary underground and made the headlines as a top Swiss terrorist.

Direction Thomas Imbach

Cast Noah Gsell · Barbara Heynen · Barbara Maurer · Milan Peschel

Plot The filmmaker Lenz has left his native Berlin for the Vosges to research the story behind Georg Büchner's novel fragment Lenz. But he soon trades the Alsatian landscape for higher...

Direction Thomas Imbach

Cast Linda Olsansky · Herbert Fritsch · Claudia Cimaschi · Claudia Engeler

Plot Petra, the 1980s 'green queen' and peace activist, is shot in her sleep by her lover and political ally, former West German army general Gert. He kills himself shortly afterwards....

Direction Thomas Imbach

Plot A smokestack stubbornly pierces the sky. Trains rumble by down below. Lights come on in the buildings as night falls. There is a man behind the camera, looking for an...

Direction Sabine Boss

Cast Viktor Giacobbo · Sabina Schneebeli · Mike Müller · David Chrisman

Plot Stefan Balsiger, a nice Swiss guy and advisor to the US embassy, makes the senator make a mistake that intensifies in a second Cuban crisis. Only one person can eventually...

Direction Michael Schindhelm

Cast Fei Cao · Lijun Fang · Uli Sigg · Guangyi Wang

Plot A documentary about the entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector Uli Sigg, who had an impact on China's shift in economic policy after the Mao era and also established the world's...

Direction Michele Cirigliano

Cast Enza Molinari · Minguccio Amato · Paolo Dabraio · Nicola Santoro

Direction Thomas Imbach