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- An outwardly normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations that put the very nature of her existence into question.
- After watching a documentary about black widow spiders, Ella spots a connection between the cannibalistic spider species, that eats the male after mating, and a mysterious woman, whom her father has invited to a date that evening.
- Two DJ's in Tehran are battling to play the music they love and set up dance parties. Local regime does not look well at harbingers of western culture of decay so the protagonists need to do big decisions.
- Shannet Clemmings, a Black Transgender woman from Jamaica, shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by prejudice and discrimination as she wanders through the empty streets of a European city.
- When Jessy tells David she's pregnant, his fears of inadequacy as a man take hold. Frantic, he resorts to steroids. Within a short time, David becomes a threat to Jessy and the unborn child.
- On a hot summer day four groups sweat without realizing that the world is slowly ending.
- Irna seeks refuge in her own world with Elias, a rubber doll.
- At a party teeming with young artists and bon vivants, the everyday, and yet the extraordinary, is happening. On their quest to experience love and life, they talk carelessly, risking everything, and dance on in the neon lights of the night... all together, and each by themselves.
- A poor orphan ends up in a high society until a pair of red shoes forces her to dance forever.
- In 2014, the Winter Paralympic Games took place at the same time as the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Following five Ukrainian athletes forced to adapt their personal and professional lives to the ongoing armed conflict, Pushing Boundaries is a pertinent reflection on the capacities of humans to push the boundaries between two countries, and those of their own body.
- The sun shines every day in Chagrin Valley, USA. Frozen in a 1950s-inspired artificial decor, this assisted living facility for people who suffer from dementia is home to fragile and ageing residents. Here, everyday life drags on slowly. Florence and her companions dream of an elusive elsewhere during their days punctuated by confusion, fleeting conflicts and overdue family visits. The caregivers - as kind as they are exhausted - run the show in this pastel-coloured, sanitised social theatre. Between two shifts, they confess their desire for a better future; one that is not so different from that of the residents, after all. The Swiss documentary maker Nathalie Berger, a Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) graduate, casts a tender and curious look over her protagonists. Examining our relationship with old age, illness and the universal fear of dying, and gently probing into the matter of our individual and collective dreams, she interrogates the false promises of our contemporary society.
- Anna is a nine-year-old girl of Swiss and South Korean origin, who is torn between her cultures. One night, she hears a noise coming from her wardrobe and a mysterious man appears inside. To her surprise, he seems rather lost than threatening. The stranger turns out to be from North Korea and desperately wants to return back home, so Anna decides to help him. She learns that her new friend isn't so very different from herself.
- The gray rock of Mount Flimserstein. The luminous rectangle of a screen in an old Paris cinema. The glittering skyscrapers of Tokyo. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» is a cinematic journey comprising a rich array of images and memories marking an outstanding career. The first feature-length film by Pascal Hofmann and Benny Jaberg documents the eventful life and cineastic legacy of an exceptional Swiss director of both films and operas. It spans his formative childhood in a Belle Epoque hotel in the Grisons mountains, and follows his escape from the peaceful Alps to turbulent 1960s Berlin, his love for the cinema, and his encounters with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It delves into the worldly nightlife of 1970s Paris, and shows Schmid filming on location in Morocco, Portugal, and his native Grisons. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» traces the eventful life of a gifted artist. It is a film about arriving, time and again, and about taking leave, for ever. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» lets us hear several of his loyal companions comment on this exceptional artist, among others his muse Ingrid Caven, his cameraman Renato Berta, and close friends like director Werner Schroeter, actress Bulle Ogier, and film scholar Shiguéhiko Hasumi. And we hear Daniel Schmid himself - in a cinematic exploration of his life and work carried by his own voice and view of the world. A world situated between reality and fiction.
- Anna is working as a cleaning lady. Every night she cleans Helen's office. Helen is a high level broker working in the stock exchange. The two women live in different worlds and normally would never meet each other. However they happen to have enrolled on the same salsa course. Due to the lack of men, Anna and Helen have to dance together. A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
- Young wannabe novelist Dominique Piepermann sets out with a lively kebab vendor through a forgotten valley in the Swiss Alps where she comes face to face with love, loss and a Fiat Panda obsessed pimp.
- Jeanne, a young chef, has made it to a renowned star restaurant. With iron discipline she tries to convince her chef of her talent but fights against a merciless pecking order until she has to decide how far she wants to go for her career.
- In the midst of the vibrant medina of Marrakech, Samir longs for love and a better future. But his summer flirtations always end at the airport and he is left behind in a country with limited opportunities. When Samir really falls in love, he is faced with the decision of his life: should he listen to his sister and enter into a traditional marriage in Morocco or follow love and the dream of a better future in Europe?
- Anna, Francesco, and the eight years old Giorgio can't afford a fancy holiday. Social pressure makes them fake a Bahamas vacation through photoshopped posts on social media. The deluge of likes/comments fuel an all-consuming dopamine rush.
- Ivan meets Paolo, little Jonas meets Ida, another Jonas meets Sandra and Annina meets Jonas - in July, at a campsite by a river.
- Teenage girl Sadie runs away with a much older man on a motorcycle. Between friendship and love, attraction, and misunderstanding, they develop an emotional connection.
- A small airport in Switzerland. Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight. Natalie is waiting. For whom, she doesn't know yet. Two strangers, caught in a night with no morning.
- Former telenovela star Pippa is in her forties and struggling to reestablish herself as an actress. Chasing after her dreams, she hurries from one audition to another, constantly being confronted with the role of the mother. After an unexpected meeting with her estranged daughter Luna, the role Pippa has been denying suddenly becomes her reality.
- Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for employment.
- In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love, but in just one night he gets dumped by all the girls. Sven's journey for emotional shelter becomes a comical odyssey between self-pity and self-discovery.
- Ma Na Sapna tells the story of several women in India, dreaming of a better future for themselves and for their families through surrogacy.
- The young and progressive Swiss political movement Operation Libero sets up a campaign to oppose the populist right.
- Maurizio is a student living in Zurich, with a passion for diseases. Unlike many others, he can see an inherent beauty in them. After all, what difference can exist between a flower and an infection, if they are both a gift of nature?
- A peasant couple loses their farm. A couple of days later the farmer finds his wife naked in the stable and his world turns upside down.
- Hausarrest tells the story of Max, who was sentenced to house arrest for six months. An ankle monitor called Percy assists him during his arrest. But one day he realizes with horror how far Percy goes in its function.
- The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have swapped bodies. Lucie wants to abort an unplanned pregnancy, while Pierre longs for the experience of motherhood.
- A man is stranded in a strange flat "the morning after", wearing nothing but his underpants, and he cannot exactly recall how he got there or what has happened. When he happens to meet the two roommates, he attempts to learn more about his delicate situation without letting on about his uncertainty. As it turns out, however, the two women are harbouring their own intentions.
- In order to escape the violence of the father, mother and son create their own underground world. But it is only through the completion of their plan that they are completely lost to the world.
- They were killing nature, so she had to kill them.
- Alice wants to study photography in Paris. She's waiting for the letter of admission of the art school. Her father takes no stock in her artistic aspiration. Anyway, father and daughter estrange increasingly - until the situation escalate.
- Two siblings in a war, try to escape the brutal reality by making up a comic world.
- A young woman is invited to celebrate her birthday with her alcoholic mother. Trying to maintain harmony, the two stumble through a night of bliss and disaster.
- Franco, an elderly man, lives his life in serenity together with his wife Margherita. The arrival of his brother Vittorio, with whom he hasn't talked in years, breaks the calm.
- Kosovo, 1998: When Dunja, a young Serbian woman, finds out that she's pregnant she decides to run away to her aunt in Switzerland.
- Isabell can't get over her dog's death. Unable to overcome her grief and surrounded by happy dog owners, she decides that no one else should have a dog.
- The Man lives with his Girlfriend in a casual relationship. She has settled in his meager one-room apartment where he maintains a monotonous life. They spend their nights peacefully until she discovers her need for real intimacy.