A cinematic journey into the mind and work of Eileen Gray. The Irish designer builds her first house in 1929, a refuge in the south of France. She named it E.1027, a cryptic marriage of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it. A discrete, avant-garde masterpiece that subsequently became the fascination and obsession of Le Corbusier.
At a critical moment in the history of the written word, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage, as well as our collective memory.
Marina is having a secret affair with Artem, the father of one of her students, Ulyana. Although both Artem and his daughter have lived in Switzerland for years, neither has a residence permit. When Ulyana is caught stealing it exposes their game of deception and threatens the existences of everyone involved.
The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon and grants insights into his life and work in a self-ironic, direct manner. The intimate portrait of a great literary outsider emerges, for whom the risk of life and the risk of writing merge into one and the same work of art.
A plea for the liberation of female sexuality in the 21st century. The film questions millennial patriarchal structures, as well as todays omnipresent porn culture. It accompanies five extraordinary women around the globe revealing universal contexts. Nomination Swiss Film Award 2017 for best music.
Drawing inspiration from his personal encounter with the Italian refugee child Giovanna during World War II, Markus Imhoof tells how refugees and migrants are treated today: on the Mediterranean Sea, in Italy and in Switzerland. Nomination Swiss Film Award 2017 for best music.
A book filled with with courageous testimonies by 300 Central African women, girls and men. They reveal what was done to them by Congolese mercenary soldiers in the course of military disputes in October 2002. Nomination Swiss Film Award 2017 for best music.
After her mother decides to stop all medication, 18 year old mentally disabled Dora awakes to a world of wonder and desire. Yet Doras sudden and risky craving for life begins to turn her family upside down. Nomination Swiss Film Award 2015 for best music.
A film about the acclaimed painter, sculptor, architect and designer. Featuring Michael Flury, trombone; Iokoi, voice; Xenia Schindler, harp; Fredy Studer, percussion; Skuli Sverrisson, bass; Don Li, clarinets; Björn Meyer, bass; Kyoko Katsunuma, voice; Rico Baumann, drums; Pascal Schärli, percussion; Jean-Pierre von Dach, guitar. Winner of the 2014 Suisa Film Score Award.
Two young men spend a few days in a chalet, when they discover a dark presence is haunting the place.
Searching for answers for the global bee decline director Markus Imhoof takes us on a trip around the world to meet people living with and off honeybees: Almond growers in California, a Swiss mountain beekeeper, a German neuroscientist investigating bee brains, a pollen dealer in China, and bee researchers in Australia. Winner of Swiss Film Award 2013 for best music.
Carmen Perrin, an established artist working in Geneva, travels to Bolivia to learn more about her father. She returns to the island where he lived to show the local people the films he made at that time. A partner in this project, Michel Favre follows her closely, underlining the ethnographic scope of her father's work and the emotional importance of her journey.
Breast cancer has become the poster child of corporate cause-related marketing campaigns. Pink Ribbons, Inc. is a feature documentary that shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer, which marketing experts have labeled a "dream cause," becomes obfuscated by a shiny, pink story of success.
This film follows four lives forever changed by the infamous U.S. detention camp, and witnesses the scars that remain as democratic values fade. Torture in its many insidious forms is described by perpetrators, whistleblowers, victims and their defenders.
This film brings us into the imaginary worlds of the exceptional Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid,1941-2006, a storyteller with strong bonds to the world of opera and theatre (he made several films on Japanese theater, opera singers, as well as Douglas Sirk). The film captures the fleeting magic of his life between the Swiss alps, Paris, Berlin and Tokyo.
The multi-award winning film makers Karin Steinberger and Marcus Vetter consistently search for approaches as to how the developing countries can free themselves from the stranglehold of the first, the wealthy world.
In the state of Tamil Nadu, picking salt is the main mean of support for the local population, as well as the cause of a state of exploitation that has been going on for decades.
This Documentary essay invites the viewer to meditate on the arbitrary nature of borders by accompanying multimedia artist Peter Krausz through his creative process at work on a series of paintings that explore the theme of boundaries.
2-Channel video installation on parallel screens with 4-channel audio 'Hush Hour' references Ingmar Bergman's film 'The Silence' and thematizes the state of simultaneous inner excitement and exterior speechlessness. The problematic relationship of the two sisters takes place on two screens with the role of the boy delegated to the audience, which is forced to literally move and decide between the two optical fronts
An unknown woman is rescued from Lake Marmorera and soon becomes a puzzling figure of much concern for Zurich’s psychiatrists. One of them, Simon Cavegn, himself originally from Marmorera, treats the young woman and slowly starts to discover the dark secret of a flooded village. Winner of the 2006 Suisa Film Score Award.
With O Vertigo dance company, Montreal A portrait of two days in the life of an architect at a crucial moment, between a romantic rupture and an architectural creation.
The characters’ individual struggles for validation and self-fulfillment are presented against the unique social and cultural backdrop of the Lower East Side.
An encounter brings out the delicate boundaries of politics, class and family relationships. a painful, contradictory, gentle and loving story takes place against the backdrop of a distant and brutal conflict.
Based on the Marguerite Duras novel
The journey through time touches upon the genesis of the atomic bomb, military trials at the end of the war, the functional workings of the lie detector, the discovery of the Majdanek death camp. Einstein speaks, as does the embalmer of Lenin, a KGB agent, and the presumed US spy who made a new life in the Soviet Union. A report based on a dialogue with F., a soldier in the war in ex-Yugoslavia.
A rare view on Voodoo from Benin, the search and initiation of a boy as the new head of a monastery. "Venzago and his musicians have ventured into bold new musical realms. Based on real recordings of dances and ceremonies they have created new contemporary music built up from samples and loops which contain all the flair and whirl of the original music." Wim Wenders
A brilliant document about Geraldo de Barros (1923-1998), pioneer of Brazilian experimental photography, one of the most significant artists of the Constructivist Movement. His creative process is approached in this film in a stimulative dialogue between past and present, between the trajectory of a man and that of his country
American painter / film maker Robert Longo's experimental film, on the occasion of Heine's 200th birthday, creates a highly romantic "phantasmagorie" around the origin and publication of the acidic satire Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen. With Barbara Sukowa and Cindy Sherman.
This powerful film about the Jewish Defense League traces the militant group's history from the streets of Brooklyn where it originated to the occupied territories where it flourishes today, painting a disturbing portrait of a cycle of hate born in the ashes of the Holocaust.
