feature, germany 2012, maria blumencron
the story of a young german medical student (hannah herzsprung) who is confronted with the fate of tibetan refugee children during a journey through the himalayas. after meeting the activist meto, she decides to help smuggle the refuges across the 6,000 meter high mountain passes into India. but she is faced with an adventure that changes her life.
documentary, germany 2011, thomas wallner
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.
documentary, switzerland 2010, pascal hofmann & benny jaberg
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.
documentary, germany 2009, marcus vetter
the multi-award winning film makerskKarin 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.
documentary short, switzerland 2009, fiorella castanotto
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.
no man's land
documentary, canada 2009, doina harap
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.
feature, germany 2009, thomas stiller
based on one of the most spectacular series of bank robberies in Germany, '12 winter' tells the story of two criminals who meet in prison. they execute a spectacular series of robberies that keeps the police in the dark for twelve years.
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.
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
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.
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.
