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- DirectorSalomé JashiDocumentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister.
- DirectorMichele CiriglianoFootball Inside enters the heart of football culture and uses the dressing room as the central stage. By putting on their jerseys, professionals, women, juniors and seniors take on different roles for the duration of a game. The joy of the game unites them all. The film shows the National League A women's team from GC Zurich, SC Kriens from the Challenge League, the C-juniors of FC Blue Stars Zurich and the veteran team of FC Wettswil-Bonstetten in the dressing room. A unity is created from single individuals. By putting on the football jersey, each and every one of them is given their task. Everyone faces the pressure of the game, but also their own fear. The film shows how teams come together, forget everyday life and become part of a greater unity through the ritual of football.
- DirectorCláudia VarejãoStarsInês CamposTeresa CamposEunice FrancoTwo twin sisters, a master and his dog, lovers who look like each other...all doubles are possible in the simultaneously poetic and hyper-realistic universe of Claudia Varejão. Here, love comes in all shapes and sizes, building a choreography of visual resemblances, while also questioning what makes a couple in the contemporary world.
- DirectorAndreas HoessliStarsAmir Hassan CheheltanTadeusz ChetkoMassoumeh EbtekarA documentary about the revolutions in 1979 and 1980 in Iran and Poland.
- DirectorJürgen BrüggerJörg HaaßengierNatural disasters, accidents, terrorist threats - today you can simulate just about any disaster scenario. The question of how different institutions, crisis centers, research institutes and insurance companies play it through is factually drilled down in MASTER OF DISASTER. In staged firefighting operations, in smoking train interiors, and a bomb attack in a residential area, it is ultimately only about the question: Can the potential disaster with so much planning be prevented?
- DirectorSebastian HeinzelNew research from epigenetics indicates that enormous stress experiences change the genetic make-up. German filmmaker Sebastian Heinzel explores the effects of WWII on his family and follows his grandfather's path from Germany to Belarus. He discovers unexpected connections to his own past and his war dreams, which have been haunting him for years.
- DirectorSophie HuberStarsRobert GlasperAmbrose AkinmusireMarcus StricklandA revelatory, thrilling and emotional journey behind the scenes of Blue Note Records, the pioneering label that gave voice to some of the finest jazz artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
- DirectorVadim JendreykoThe film follows Swiss photographer Daniel Schwartz during the final stages of 'While the Fires Burn', a project documenting global glacier retreat and collapse. At the same time it sheds light on both the protagonist's past an his work - a work rooted in humanist tradition and guided by a deep sense of history and understanding for the intertwined issues of our time.
- DirectorIvo ZenStarsIvo ZenChristine FelixIvan Beer
- DirectorPierre-François SauterStarsJosé Russo BaiãoJovan NikolicCALABRIA is a road movie in a hearse. After the death of a Calabrian emigrant who came to Switzerland to find work, two undertakers, Jovan and José, emigrants themselves, travel from the north to the south of Italy to repatriate the deceased to his home village.
- DirectorCláudia VarejãoStarsMayumi MitsuhashiMasumi ShibaharaMatsumi KoisoA dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these have been carried out in Japan for over 2000 years by the Ama-San.
- DirectorKatharina WaisburdIn Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo, Israelis and Palestinians work hand in hand. This would be considered as normality in many places around the world, but here it happens in an environment which is constantly shaken by violence and war. Even though coming from the same city, people's living realities seem to be far away from each other and are marked by deep cuts in society. In the microcosm of the zoo, among animals and on green refreshing grounds, their cooperation seems to be easy. Holy Zoo discovers an extraordinary place in the heart of the Middle East conflict and dares to revive questions about freedom and hope in a desperate situation.
- DirectorMarc SchmidtThe Chimpanzee Complex is a documentary about a rescue institution for traumatized chimpanzees. In particular the story of 1 chimp (Mojo) is followed starting at his rescue.
- DirectorMichael Werder
- DirectorEdgar HagenStarsCharles McCombieMarcos BuserGregg ButlerOver 350,000 tons of highly radioactive waste and spent fuel rods are in temporary storage on site at nuclear power complexes and at intermediate storage sites all over the world. More than 10,000 additional tons join them every year. It is the most dangerous waste man has ever produced. Waste that requires storage in a safe final repository for hundreds of thousands of years. Out of reach of humanity and other living creatures. The question is, where? Together with Swiss-British nuclear physicist Charles McCombie, who has been searching for a safe final storage site for highly radioactive nuclear waste for thirty-five years, director Edgar Hagen investigates the limitations and contradictions involved in this project of global significance. Supporters and opponents of nuclear energy struggle for solutions whilst dogmatic worldviews are assailed by doubt.
- DirectorArash T. RiahiArman T. RiahiStarsAndy BichlbaumReverend BillyMike BonannoA documentary about modern and creative forms of non-violent protest and civil disobedience.
- DirectorCarlos KleinThe Chilean director Carlos Klein accompanies the emergence of acclaimed Russian director Victor Kossakovsky's new film 'Long Live the Antipodes', in which he explores the relationship between humans and places that are situated on opposite sides of the earth. Therefore he travels together with Kossakovsky around the world to outlying spots of breathtaking beauty. During the shooting Carlos Klein takes a careful look on the protagonist's form of artistic creation and unfolds his ambivalent attitude to film making. The longer the antipodal journey goes on, the more tension determines the working process as well as the relationship between the two directors.
- DirectorTobias WyssStarsEugene DrzymalaMasayuki IshiguroMartinique LandoisIn 1939, Walter Otto Wyss emigrated to the USA after a tragic car accident. There he developed a revolutionary hybrid automobile that was never produced. After a love affair with an African-American dancer in Los Angeles he lived in Tokyo at the end of the 1950s as a recluse and learned Japanese. He spent the last 30 years of his life alone on Hawaii. Despite many opportunities to fulfil his dreams of freedom, success and security, he can never quite set himself free from Switzerland, his mother and his self-reproach and misses the chance to find happiness. Walter's nephew, director Tobias Wyss, tells the story of his uncle in a personal manner, making use of moving photographs and videos from the family archive. The Zurich director reconstructs the contradictory biography of his uncle in seven episodes.
- DirectorHercli BundiArchitects from Europe, America and China are invited to a Chinese provincial town. Within several months, they are to construct a park in Jinhua, intended to form the centre of a new district of that town. Where green fields now flourish and farmers plough the land, investors will soon flock, followed by new inhabitants and political reforms. But the project ends up being drawn out over years. The euphoria of the early stages runs up against a reality in which torn-open earth and the ambitious hopes of politicians, workers and locals are the only manifest features. The film documents the changes leading to the Jinhua Architecture Park - from the laying of the foundation stone to its final opening. In giving all participants in this process an opportunity to comment.
- DirectorVadim JendreykoStarsSvetlana GeierAnna GötteHannelore HagenFirst her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps, then young Svetlana herself experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev. She is good and gets work as a translator before ending up in a German camp in 1943. Now, 65 years later, she is a renowned translator who in her twilight years has translated the great works of Dostoevsky. For the first time in all these years, she returns to Kiev together with her granddaughter.
- DirectorDominik WesselyA wondrous journey into the world of martyr worship. He meets relic collectors who keep a sinking world of salvation in their living rooms full of bones.
- DirectorHercli Bundi
- DirectorMichele CiriglianoStarsEnza MolinariMinguccio AmatoPaolo DabraioA small, shabby bar in the deep south of Italy. A group of men play Padrone e sotto, an archaic drinking game. The film looks into a closed society of residents of a structurally weak region and becomes a sociogram that is exploring universal power mechanisms.