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- KICK THAT HABIT is a film created in the bleak eastern region of Switzerland. At first, a group plays a game of mini-golf, then the Swiss musicians Voice Crack (Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl) rehearse in the studio, afterward heading up to Alpstein, at which point you are right in the middle of a concert, next stepping away to the blue south, taken back to a table laid for dinner, then relocating down by the lake for the next concert, which fades away into romanticized Russian Super-8 landscapes, until before long you find yourself groping in the dark, when, underneath the water, you return back to the studio, where the movie writes its own soundtrack.
- Documentary about the 90 year old Swiss painter Irma Ineichen and her memories of Paris 1951-1955
- Originally conceived as an expression of opposition to the expansion of the Grimsel-West dam in the Hasli Valley, in Switzerland, the film tries to fathom the undercurrent of apprehension caused by such projects to exploit the environment.
- The film looks behind the scenes of the welfare state and reveals the discussions marked by power and helplessness between experts and persons concerned.
- Documentary about the radio and audio book "fairytale aunt" Trudi Gerster, who has been enchanting children with her stories for more than 65 years.
- In Bern, Sylvia Leiser has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and subtle portrait about aging as a prostitute, a documentary about a vanishing chapter of habits in Switzerland.
- For 24-year-old short-statured Sam, the search for his biological mother becomes a journey to himself.
- Two young top bankers quit their promising careers and found an aid organization for underprivileged children in South East Asia. A reflection on the meaning and happiness of life.
- A shopping center of the Bernese suburbs organizes the election of the «couple of the year». The winning couple gets trousseau and marriage. The wedding ceremony takes place within the shopping center. Ruse and negotiations, resistance and resignation, values and image: a promotional comedy? A journey into the land of appearances? What is real, what is faked?
- Alsace, France. A region with plentiful vineyards, mountains, flourishing forests and picturesque lakes. Population 1,836,000. Castroville-Texas, the United States of America. An ordinary village trapped between Highway 90 and miles of harsh sunburnt fields. Population 2664. An investigation begins. Cowboys are speaking a language unknown to some but essential to many. Secrets are shared. Connections rediscovered. Sentiments of yesteryear evoked. But the land remains dry. For years they live in hope. They pray for rain. A miracle may happen, even if it means a cowboy must leave his beloved land to wander across the other side.
- Zurich at the beginning of the 90s in the 20th century: the worlds media focuses on the blot on Switzerland's clean image: the «Needle Park», the open drug scene at the Platzspitz, just behind the Swiss National Museum. Right under the eyes of passers-by - tourists, business people, women with children - hundreds of mainly young people were shooting up drugs into their bloody, festering veins and openly dealing drugs in front of the police. Stephan was one of them. He shot up everything - the more the better. To him heroin was like a mother, who hugged him and cocaine was like a father who gave him the courage. A substitute for something he had never experienced. Ten years later: Gaby Schädler gets to know the 32 year old Stephan, who now is an accountant, as a cheerful, charming and responsible young man. By chance she discovers old video footage which shows Stephan as a junkie in a deplorable state. The filmmaker decides to tell his story. For a whole year, she accompanies the ex-junkie with her camera. Stephan openly talks about drugs, highs and withdrawal as well as the difficulties of his life after drugs and his fear of normality. He still thinks that taking drugs is one of the most exciting experiences you can have - 'better than sex' - and promptly succumbs to his old habit: the camera becomes the witness of a temporary relapse and his subsequent remorse. Fortunately, this happens in Zurich, a city that has learned to deal with its addicts. The result is a sensitive, lively and, at times, funny portrait of a young man who managed to escape from hell. A film which, last but not least, has a preventive effect, as it simply tells the naked truth.
- Captain Pirk has conquered the world and orders the creation of a space fleet. Captain Stöcklin is one of the new space ship captains. He has to test the experimental Hadron Twist Drive and ends up in a faraway part of the galaxy.
- "One Love" is a documentary film which accompanies poet and rapper Jürg Halter, alias Kutti MC, on an adventurous formative journey from Tokyo to Los Angeles and then back to Berne. Before his second album is released, the film presents various facets of this young artist. The world hasn't been waiting for him, but then again, he hasn't waited for it either.
- Two women have access to the personal notes of their deceased friend - they start an unforgettable journey to learn more about her. Isabel and Lucia remember her friend Brigitta, who committed suicide at a young age. In a big bag Brigitta left notes and letters, which are material for confrontation and discussion regarding the topic of suicide. They are the impulse for a journey, geographical and emotional. On this journey through Switzerland Lucia and Isabel capture bridges with their dance and music. Bridges, not only as a place to jump off of to do away with oneself, but also as a relational metaphor. During the journey Lucia finds three seeds in one of Brigitta's notebooks. From those seeds whispers a promise of growing friendships.
- Anne, Nina and Max are three individuals constantly shown on train journeys - independently of one another - in the "golden triangle" between Zurich, Berne and Basle. Their existence is a sort of permanent limbo between these cities, always on the move without ever arriving. Arrival at their destination merely signals the start of the next trip. Cities are reduced to stations, places of restlessness and constant motion, whose raison d'etre is to justify the sense of going somewhere and being nowhere. Three lives lived somewhere between three cities.
- When Huldrych Zwingli starts out as a priest in Zurich in 1519, the Plague affects him. As he looks death in the face, God's Word carries him through and he survives. Encouraged, he turns Zurich upside-down with the Bible in his hand.
- lovely simple and gentle crash with techno soundtrack
- A journey to the sounds and also to the silence, to other cultures, as far as Africa and then back across the sea, to the unfamiliar and to friends - and then finally, to ourselves.