"Switzerland"
Horror comedy film following vampire count Geza von Kösznöm who’s visiting groundbreaking neurologist Sigund Freud because he’s bored of his life and frustrated of the “eternally long” relationship with his…
On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva, Charles Dé the founder’s 50-year-old grandson has had it: he speaks eccentrically to a reporter, recognizing his…
Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew’s bright future is jeopardized when…
Two guys against globalization want to plant a virus in the network of a finance corporation. On the day of the attack Alex has an accident and cannot remember anything….
The Making of a Dream is a cinematic essay on stories of dancers. It shows joys and pains from the first steps in an amateur school to the goal to…
15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced…
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too…
Simon has a love-hate relationship with his father. When his parents go on holiday, Simon initiates a seductive game of cat-and-mouse with his father’s mistress and gets disastrously tangled up…
Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujerat, India, where they will stay for an endless eight months…
Nick Brandestini is a filmmaker based in Zurich, Switzerland. His first documentary, Return to Florence (2006), about a small group of young American and British artists studying classical methods at…
A group of female freedom-fighters led by Karine Levere is caught by the warden of a women’s prison, located somwhere in the South American jungle. None of them will reveal…
Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and…
A group of women are kidnapped by guerrillas and brought to a jungle brothel where they are forced to work as prostitutes for the soldiers. Those who refuse to cooperate…
In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers. But when they…
Alex and his girlfriend Anna have a problem: Anna couldn’t be more pregnant, and neither can find an affordable flat. The only one who can help is Anna’s father, Commander…
To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency…
Narcotics investigator Herbert Strähl is engaging in a fierce and seemingly hopeless battle against the drug scene on Langstrasse in Zurich. Carol is a wild young drug addict. Strähl’s problems…
There is a strange event in the sky. Only a young woman, and some of her more alienated friends…notice. But they are voiceless, as it just gets stranger – even…
A poetic but also wryly humorous study of the selfish artist trying to play the indifferent God, but ending up revealing himself as all too human.
Fascinated by the already legendary filmmaker, as a teenager Thomas dreamed of becoming his assistant. He wrote to JLG and asked him if he could “look over his shoulder” while…
Late at night, the psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital to take care of Yves, an eight-year-old boy, who just has lost his parents and siblings in a…
A group of 17 theater actors wonder about what happened to their teacher when he doesn’t show up for a class.
A private eye who’s over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client’s rich husband in bed with another woman. But when the husband winds…
Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent….
In Central America, a little native boy, Ramel, is abducted by Vinaro, a madman who believes the child to be the sole link to a lost Aztec city of gold….
An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome as they are fascinating, inhabitants of…
An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome as they are fascinating, inhabitants of…
A film about the work of painter Victor Rodriguez, whose sole subject is his ex-wife.
A film about the work of painter Victor Rodriguez, whose sole subject is his ex-wife.
When Elias van Dorne, CEO of the world’s largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention, Kronos-a super-computer designed to end all wars-it determines that humans are the biggest threat…
When Elias van Dorne, CEO of the world’s largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention, Kronos-a super-computer designed to end all wars-it determines that humans are the biggest threat…
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his…
A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead…
Because of an appearing psychogenic Tinnitus a twenty-something youngster is forced to rethink his egoistic, urban lifestyle.
Lisa is moving. Upheaval all around: Her mother flirts with a handyman. An eccentric woman seems to be preparing for a glamorous event, a family next door returns from vacation,…
Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.
Frau Oberst has 2 young nieces who are very open with their sexuality. She hopes to find adequate lovers for her nieces and along the way finds herself in some…
During the summer, Gabriel, a teenage father, falls in love with the mysterious Corey, the girlfriend of Joel, his best friend, who, deeply hurt, reveals the truth about Gabriel’s past.
After five years studying in Paris, Arash has not adjusted to life there and has decided to return to Iran to live. Hoping to change his mind, his two friends…
1975, Swiss Alps: In a remote mountain village, a beautiful and mysterious woman shows up. Only the village policeman takes care of the strange woman and tries to find out…
Eva is in her mid-50s and is stuck in a rut. Her marriage has lost all passion and she begins to write reviews for a sex toy start-up hoping the…
Marija, a young Ukrainian woman, earns a living as a cleaning woman in a hotel in Dortmund, but dreams of having her own hairstyling salon, and puts away some money…
In order to win the respect of her friends and family, divorced housewife Sabine decides to perform Wilhelm Tell with a group of Asylum seekers in the Swiss mountains.
A.D. 1519: When Huldrych Zwingli begins preaching as a priest in Zurich, the plague affects him. Looking death in the face, God’s Word carries him through and he survives. Encouraged…
Two police detectives investigate the murder of a high-end male prostitute, and his relationship with his girlfriend.
An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs.
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry’s prior therapist and also finds Henry’s mother —…
Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A young woman sets off to immerse herself through autumn, winter and spring…
A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race’s mission of taking over the Earth, “Wanda” (as she comes to be…
A man of many occupations — who gets “all the women” — describes sex he’s seen and some sex he’s had to a movie producer.
Cynthia, an exotic dancer in a upscale resort in Southern France, is seduced by a strange couple, Alpha, a being from another dimension and her human slave, Andros. Alpha places…
Johnny Suede (Brad Pitt) longs to be a teen-age idol like Ricky Nelson. He has a pair of black suede shoes, an impressive pompadour, a guitar, and some pals who…
A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
A group of normal 14-year-old teenagers at a secondary school in Zürich with the normal yearnings for love and acceptance. But the power of social media, with its high-gloss selfies…
A young man lands in a cut off village in the Swiss mountains and discovers a dark secret from the past, as the villagers made a pact with the devil…
A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets…
Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers growing up in Barrow – the northernmost community in the United States. As their climate and culture undergo…
A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.
At the far end of the Alaskan peninsula, for filmmaker Roman Droux a childhood dream comes true. He discovers together with the bear researcher David Bittner the universe of wild…
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.
A contemporary fairy tale about a 14-year-old influencer from Berlin and her biggest fan. But life as a social media star has a shadow side that the adrenaline, fame and…
The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the…