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.
in a desperate race against time detective max ballauf tries to find a brutal killer who is in the process to systematically eliminate his ex-girlfriends
portrait of David Rouiller, a young Swiss man who joined the Kurdish freedom movement, PKK, five years ago. Rouiller, the son of a university Professor and a former President of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, gave up a comfortable and safe existence in Switzerland, and the amenities of a western lifestyle, to commit his life and strength to the ideals of the Kurdish freedom fight
with o vertigo dance company, montreal
it portrays 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.
a surreal, noir dance film, a gangster thriller and a love story in which there are old scores to be settled ...
winner of rose d'or 2004 for best music
aline, a solitary and introverted young girl in the alps falls passionately in love with a tourist. unable to accept his rejection she increasingly loses her grip on reality. she devours him...
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, the 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 cindy sherman, barbara sukowa and klaus pohl.
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.
an eerie look at orpheus & euridiche, set in our own time. the hero is taken, like josef k. in the trial by kafka, from place to place in order to find his true love that died in a mysterious accident. the bureaucrats make the mistake of revealing their presence to the distraught young man, and he journeys into the underworld to negotiate a deal for the release of his girl with "the boss," who is generally known as the bureaucrat-in-charge.
