Soundtrack: Peter Bräker

Direction Peter Mettler

Synopsis 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 a journey that includes evangelism at the airport strip, demolition...

Direction Daniel Schweizer

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

Synopsis 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 fashionable types to hardcore neo-Nazis. Special consideration is paid to...

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

Synopsis 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 "Train Fantôme".

Direction Sabine Gisiger

Cast Jörg Sambeth

Synopsis 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 belonged to Hoffman La Roche, based in Basel. Following the...

Direction Christoph Schaub

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

Synopsis 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 a babysitter problem, the story gives nine people under the...

Direction Christoph Schaub

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

Synopsis 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 to be closed because now there are only a few...

Direction Sabine Gisiger · Marcel Zwingli

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 altitudes and more emotional territory: a reunion with his estranged...

Direction Thomas Imbach

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

Synopsis 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. Was it murder, or did she want that shot? What...

Direction Thomas Imbach

Synopsis 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 image -- of himself? Of the world? Of society? By...

Direction Sabine Boss

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

Synopsis 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 solve the crisis: Stefan Balsiger himself.

Direction Michael Schindhelm

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

Synopsis 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 most significant collection of contemporary Chinese art.

Direction Michele Cirigliano

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

Direction Thomas Imbach