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- DirectorChristof VorsterStarsOliver StokowskiMichael FingerKatharina von BockSteff, a solitary gay man nearing middle age in Zurich, seeks capital to buy a furniture restoration business. A newspaper's funeral notice for Martin Hilder, dead from cancer, jolts him: he and Martin had been lovers for three years, and Steff didn't know Martin was ill. At the funeral, Martin's gaunt lover, Rex, angrily denounces the family's denial: Martin, whom he calls "Hilde" and refers to as "she," died of AIDS. Martin's will leaves everything to Steff, plus the wish that his ashes be released into the sea off the coast of France. Martin's mother wants the estate and the ashes: she makes Steff an offer. Rex wants Martin's wishes honored. Will the ashes reach the sea?
- DirectorYangzom BrauenStarsMelanie WinigerMax LoongCarlos LealThe life of two desperate Swiss Expats who try to write their first script turns up side down when they discover a dead body on the street. Will they achieve to finish the script on time, or will they be lost forever in the pandemonium of their circumstances?
- DirectorChristoph SchaubStarsEmmanuelle LaboritLars OtterstedtRenate BeckerAntonia (Emmanuelle Laborit) is a deaf woman in her late twenties who lost her parents as a child. With nowhere to go, Antonia was taken in by Verena (Renate Becker), the mother superior at a Swiss convent where many of the sisters have taken a vow of silence. As she's grown older she begins to wonder if she made the right choice. Doing volunteer work at a homeless shelter, she meets Mikas (Lars Otterstedt), a petty thief and onetime carnival performer who is also deaf. Mikas boldly expresses his desire for Antonia, and to her surprise, she finds herself responding to his advances.
- DirectorSascha WeibelStarsNina LangensandMatthias BritschgiChristoph MattiIt's the month of August and hot in the city. Dante's girlfriend has abandoned him for a rich lover. Then he meets Rhea, who lives together with a wealthy man twice her age. She claims that he's not jealous and begins an erotic game with Dante, who passionately rushes headlong into the affair, no questions asked. But why is it that Rhea counts her erotic encounters precisely? And why does she document practically everything she experiences with the video on her mobile phone?
- DirectorO'Neil BürgiStarsHans Peter RothAndreas MeileSam HessSwitzerland is a treasure trove of gripping ghost stories. Some of the most fascinating and uncanny occurrences are examined in this film based on eyewitness accounts at the scene, with the journalist Hans Peter Roth. Two people capable of seeing the deceased and hearing voices from the dead give their accounts: the medium Andreas Meile and the clairvoyant Sam Hess tell of their special gift.
- DirectorFranz ReichleStarsThe Dalai LamaTenzin ChoedrakChimit-Dorzhi DuragovThe first feature documentary dealing extensively with Tibetan medicine.
- DirectorUrs OdermattStarsMiriam JappPaula SchrammJörg-Heinrich BenthienTrix Brunner, a single mother, has moved to the village from the city years ago. She accuses the gym teacher to have her daughter molested. The whole village is outraged.
- DirectorYvon MarcianoStarsSergio CastellittoMarie TrintignantAnémoneAn illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.
- DirectorMarkus FischerStarsBruno GanzBarbara AuerRolf HoppePeter Keller, who lives in Berlin, receives a letter from his homeland, the Swiss Emmental. Otto Balsiger, who had served in the army as a soldier under Keller's command, is accused of raping and murdering a woman and asks Keller for help. Keller, who firmly believes in Balsiger's innocence, tries to find out the true background to the crime on his own. However, his investigations quickly make him unpopular with the villagers, and it seems he can't trust anyone. Only Josef, an old friend of Keller's who has since become the leader of a religious sect, and Uta, the mayor's daughter, seem to be honest and friendly to him.
- DirectorVictor J. TognolaStarsHannes SchmidhauserHe personified Ueli in the Gotthelf screen adaptations Uli, der Knecht and Uli the Tenant, Arnold von Melchtal in the film William Tell, the young farmer Beat in the film Zwischen uns die Berge, engine driver Hartmann in Hinter den sieben Gleisen, the Grisons farmer Linus Caduff in the TV series Die Direktorin, as well as General Sutter in the film with the same title. All these roles were played by a man from Ticino who spoke Locarnese dialect: Hannes Schmidhauser. North of the Gotthard people still believe he was Swiss German. In Ticino he is merely remembered for his career as a football player. So it is high time that this personality commited to culture and sports be presented in more detail.
- DirectorMarkus FischerStarsAnatole TaubmanMavie HörbigerEva DewaeleIn the early 1950s the Alpine village of Marmorera and the surrounding valley was flooded because of a local dam project. Even today the sunken village hasn't been lain to rest. Then an unknown, confused young 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 Marmorera.
- DirectorThomas ThümenaThe tragicomic love story about a mixed marriage where money, a coup and dead monkeys cause commotion in daily life.
- DirectorThomas Rickenmann
- DirectorJonas FreiSeverin FreiThomas RickenmannStarsJonas FreiPanamericana - One street, two continents, three months, 12 countries and 13,000 kilometers! The adventure begins in Laredo (USA) and documents a trip through Central and South America until Buenos Aires (Argentina). The film Panamericana tells stories of life on and around the Panamericana. It illustrates unique natural beauty, contrasts of wealth and poverty, the importance of money as well as the world's longest consecutive road network from northern Alaska to southern Chile.
- DirectorDenis RabagliaStarsFrancesco MistichelliElena CucciAlfio AlessiFor the love of the beautiful Elena the young fisherman's son Marcello turns a whole village upside down.
- DirectorRolf LyssyStarsMathias GnädingerChristian KohlundAnkie LauLeo, a stout, calm, actually boring, but nice fellow ist persuaded by a frivolous friend (who has a wife) to marry his Thai girlfriend in pretence, so that she with a Swiss husband is allowed to stay in Switzerland. Quite funny, how shy both behave, when she reluctantly comes to Leo's flat. But after some time - you may have guessed - the unplanned happens: she begins to like and even love Leo, and turns away from her airy boyfriend. Leo in return also falls in love with her and has a hard time to explain to his mother, that he secretly has married only to do his friend a favour. Things get complicated, as Apia (so the name of the Asian girl) works in a brothel and Leo has to buy out the pimp to free Apia from this milieu. He even fight the Swiss bureaucracy, which got wind of the false marriage without knowing, it has become real love. Leo literally saves Apia in the last minute at the airport when she forcibly is to be repatriated. This eventually convinces the state clerk. The film ends with a surprise for Leo when Apia's whole family arrive at the airport, because all family members should come together, when a baby is due.
- DirectorOliver RihsStarsPeter WeissManuel CortezNarges RashidiSingle Lanzelot who is looking for a serious relationship has one-time dates with several women contacted by his flat mate Milan by internet who happen not to be the right ones for Lanzelot.
- DirectorBruno Moll
- DirectorCihan InanStarsChristopher BuchholzSophie RoisMichael NeuenschwanderEarly evening - a big city. Two teenagers shyly flirt with each other, a housewife sits down to watch her daily soap, nurses in a hospital gossip before the nightshift starts, a trendy couple drives through rush hour, so excited they can hardly wait to get home - a man with a rifle enters a building seeking revenge. In the blink of an eye seemingly unrelated events turn upside down what were once secure, happy, 'normal' lives. Behind fear, beyond the unexpected, there is love and hope
- DirectorRoger Mäder
- DirectorJacques PerrinJacques CluzaudMichel DebatsStarsJacques PerrinPhilippe LabroDocumentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.
- DirectorBeat HirtStarsFrank BaumannMarkus GilliChristian Heeb