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- ZEN FOR NOTHING tells of the experiences of Sabine Timoteo from Switzerland, as a "Zen novice" in Antaiji in Autumn, Winter and Spring.
- «A head-banging, thought-provoking documentary that spotlights this unique band and their dynamic, complex leader.» Karen McMullen, Senior Programmer DOC NYC
- «Parallel Lives» follows the stories of five people who were born on June 8, 1964, but under entirely different circumstances. From a radical personal perspective the film asks what we have gained and lost during the last half century - how utopias, dreams and the consciousness of the protagonists have changed against the backdrop of historic events.
- The fate of an ex-prisoner from Guantanamo who is granted asylum in Switzerland.
- When two friends collect money for the so-called "suffering in America" in the streets of Accra, is it for fun, political provocation, or a prophecy? Two Swiss filmmakers will answer these questions with the help of seven musicians from Ghana-M3NSA, Wanlov The Kubolor, Adomaa, Worlasi, Akan, Mutombo Da Poet, and Poetra Asantewa-who have written new songs and produced video clips especially for the documentary film Contradict. Tomorrow's ideas and trends are emerging more decentralized than ever in a globalized world. What do global developments and shifts in values look like from the ground up in Ghana and the African continent? How do we want to confront and contradict those changes? Can new visions for the future become global realities? Contradict shows this new generation of musicians taking on the post-colonial struggles of their parents and grandparents with new means and allies. They produce their work cheaply thanks to new software, and they spread their concerns rapidly over the Internet. In their music, they demand a new role for Africa in today's world, strengthen women's self-confidence, combat environmental pollution, and teach their peers self-acceptance, self-confidence, and self-esteem. They reflect on alternative lifestyles and new career paths and contradict the mainstream views of neighbors, ministers, and the omnipresent priests in the numerous mega churches in their country. In the collaboration with these Ghanaian artists, it becomes clear that anyone who wants to change something is walking a fine line between creativity, anger, exhaustion, and depression. Contradict thus becomes an urgent, fragile, and at times humorous appeal for change.
- Driver Niklas Leifert meets different passengers in his car on a journey from Hamburg/Germany via Switzerland all the way down to Siciliy/Italy.
- The creator attempts to uncover the dark secrets of her family's past and answer unanswered questions about her mother.
- A film editor, a director and a TV producer are working together in an editing room: they are editing themselves as the protagonists of their own movie. What starts as a peaceful piece of work is slowly getting out of control. Different approaches clash: the stubborn director collides with the TV producer who is afraid of falling TV ratings and an over challenged audience. The editor finds himself in-between the two. The editing process escalates...
- A road movie with Roman Signer who travels in the grooves of magically charged landscapes across Europe. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland, it's a large-scale performance art piece at an ideal cruising speed.
- The young and progressive Swiss political movement Operation Libero sets up a campaign to oppose the populist right.
- Beginning with her own poignant family history, the film's director traces our relationship to death and suicide.
- Guyer travels to six parts of the world, including China and Brazil, to see how the ubiquitous McDonalds fast-food chain is shaping communities.
- Beginning and end, farewell and reunion: for some it represents home, for others the start of an adventure. At train stations all over the world, people are setting off on their journeys while others return. Or wait. For the next connection, or perhaps for better times. Whether in Cairo or Zurich. Railway stations are like islands, suspended between space and time, cosmopolitan meeting points and crossroads. Mahatah - Side Stories from Main Stations delves into this universe where, almost unnoticed, people scrub stairs, make up train compositions, provide security, and sell tickets - or kebabs. Their names are Wala, Marina, Raimundo, and they work with dedication to keep alive a place that so many only register in passing. In the heat of Cairo, keeping calm helps, in Zurich, air conditioning or dancing. In both places, people are passionately living out their lives at the train station, their little cosmos. Encounters that fade into everyday life find space in Mahatah, the Arabic word for station. Episode by episode, the film consolidates into the collective rhythm of everyday life, uncovering stories from two countries whose shared poetry develops into universal human energy. Until the next reunion or the next goodbye, until the next train pulls into or out of the station, the world is united in Mahatah.