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- Set in the distant future, a female astronaut, shipwrecked on the long-decimated Earth, must decide the fate of the wasteland's remaining populace.
- Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.
- A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.
- Fifteen-year-old Beni falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, Beni is willing to follow him where ever he takes him. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into his addiction.
- An indictment of modern times divided into three "kingdoms": "Enfer" ("Hell"), "Purgatoire" ("Purgatory") and "Paradis" ("Paradise").
- When a man murders his wife, children and parents, the ensuing investigation reveals that he's been living a lie for almost 20 years.
- Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
- Lisa has bid goodbye to her ambitions as a playwright and the Berlin arts scene and now lives in Switzerland with her husband, who runs an international school. When her twin brother falls ill, she returns to Berlin.
- A Love Story Of Two Women Who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance they had in their youth.
- This coming-of-age drama deals with a young man, realizing who he really is and which things he will never do. Loic, 18 years old, being annoyed by his work in a chocolate factory, cruises in the internet by night to have sex with older men. His life is turned upside down by a row of events such as his friendship to a man who is not just interested in his body and the suicide of his best friend...
- A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.
- Jo has come to Ibiza to be a DJ in the club Amnesia. He befriends a solitary woman who's trying to forget her past. As Jo draws her into techno music, Martha puts everything she had previously lived by into question.
- A romantic musical story having the vibes both France and USA.
- A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
- 'Kurt' claims to be a sales rep. He also claims to be English in spite of his heavy Italian accent. Kurt is an habitual liar and a dangerous driver, at the very least. In the south of France he meets Léa, age 16. Between his increasingly strange dates with Léa, Kurt engages in a number of armed robberies, some successful, some not... The police are perplexed by a series of crimes including disappearances and a murder. They conclude that they are dealing with a madman... After he proposes, Léa breaks up with Kurt. The attempt to find a new girlfriend leads to a shooting by Kurt, now calling himself André. Léa's information identifies Kurt/André as Roberto Succo, psychiatric patient and parental murderer. The police hunt for Roberto covers three countries.
- An author works on a project on the subject of love, and, in the process, crosses paths with a former love in his life.
- Every morning at dawn Serge, a radio journalist, leaves to prepare the seven o'clock news broadcast. But first he makes a little detour to spend a few intimate moments with his mistress Mathilde. As he leaves her home, it is still dark and pouring with rain, and he hits someone with his car. Distraught, Serge flees. All day he struggles with fear and guilt to avoid knowing the outcome of this accident.
- Robert Frank revolutionized photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.
- After her mother's death, Heidi is handed into the custody of her grandfather, who lives in the Alps, and she makes friends with Peter. After some time she must return to her aunt's house in Berlin, where she doesn't feel very well, as she got used to the idyll of the mountains, and city life is too different.
- To save their bar from bankruptcy, Jimmy and Fifi, two friends from the suburbs, have an enlightenment: bring in the Parisian jet set, this caste accustomed to having their photo in people magazines
- Pawel Heller returns to his hometown after many years, to try to unravel the mystery of disappearance of his schoolmate.
- One day, a bad fall forces Edmond to accept Rose's help. Eventually, the two grow closer. The young woman finds relief in confiding painful memories to the older man; things she cannot even bring herself to tell her husband. Meanwhile, Edmond, too, opens up, sharing recollections of his beloved wife.
- A retired couple's life is thrown into disarray when the wife is cast in a play.
- Fortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since arriving in Lampedusa, Italy. Together with other refugees, she is given shelter for the winter in a Swiss catholic hospice at an altitude of over 2000 meters. While they wait for their fate to be decided by the Swiss authorities, Fortuna meets Kabir, a 26-year-old African refugee, and falls desperately in love. Their relationship develops in secret, till the day Kabir disappears.
- While the whole world thinks writer Léo Shepherd is dead, he is kidnapped by his son Paul.
- After fleeing his orphanage in Malawi, 10-year-old Baba befriends 11-year-old Liberian refugee Jo, and the two survive by stealing and performing music
- Day in, day out, the same routine is repeated. Immigrant worker Tobias Horvath gets up at 5:00 A.M., washes, shaves, has some breakfast, and runs to the main square. Here, in his Swiss town, he catches a bus to work, closing his eyes but realizing the horror of his existence. For ten years, Tobias has worked in a clock factory and in the relentless sound of ticking, he sees life go by without much expectation. Born in Eastern Europe, Tobias grew up in poverty, the son of a thief, beggar and prostitute. As a young teenager, he finds out who his father is. One night, Tobias knifes his father in the back, and escape to Switzerland. Now ten years later, his hope in life now is to find Line, an ideal woman lost in his imagination. One day, Tobias sees Caroline, a former school pal from the East. His dreams seemingly become shattered as Caroline is married and has a daughter. A series of surprise events further obstructs their relationship, but Tobias perseveres. He has little to lose.
- An elderly couple and their grown-up children must deal with the consequences of advancing age in this comedy-drama from France.
- A weird friendship story between a book thief and an old psychology professor who was a Nazi in the past.
- Stefan Balsiger is a congenial, average councillor to the Swiss embassy in Havanna. While accompanying an US senator on his mission in Cuba, he makes a botch of so many things, that a minor blunder by the Senator turns into a serious incident, which intensifies into a second Cuban crisis - thanks to further entanglements by the media, police, and diplomats who represent the arch-enemies USA and Cuba. Only one person can eventually solve the crisis: Stefan Balsiger himself.
- Federal Councilor Alois Mumentaler is in a crisis: he has problems with his wife Beatrice, who wants a divorce, and his long-standing prohibitive drug policy is failing.
- After falling off her horse, a teenage girl is rescued by a manly, older fireman with whom she falls in love with tragic consequences.
- An aged Diva, sent to an an elderly's home and a former constructionist who waits there for his death are the two poles between those the microcosm of the "Old Fools" evolves. The Diva has got a daughter who cares, the constructionist a nephew who wants to inherit. The rest of the inhabitants seem to have settled with fate comfortably and get roused up a little while the two main characters move towards each other. Withdrawl in old age, handling of loss, life without acknowledgment by the surrounding world and young ones with or against old ones are the themes of the movie. Between laughter and maybe a secret tear the movie reflects the altercation with the last stage of life in a humorous and encouraging way.
- Two women and two men meet. They talk: about language, about happiness, about love. Can passion be reconciled with wisdom, desire with fear, with exhaustion?
- Petra Kelly, the 1980s 'green queen' and peace activist, is shot in her sleep by her lover and political ally, former West German army general Gert Bastian. He kills himself shortly afterwards. Was it murder, or did she want that shot? What happens to Petra, from the time Gert's bullet enters her skull to the moment it lodges in her brain and she dies? She experiences a flash-forward to the present time and wakes up in the glassy transit zone of an international airport. On her trip through this modern purgatory, Petra struggles to unravel the meaning of the shot together with Gert and other figures from her life. In the explosive moment between life and death, she recognizes the force of her most absolute desires.
- Describes moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary couple who are experiencing change. The daily life the man and woman share in this film is acknowledged to be difficult. The female character, who is her partner's senior, opens the way to a possible exchange which is directed towards fraternity.
- Politicians and persons from the art community from Germany and Switzerland discuss if Germany being part of Switzerland would be a good or a bad idea.
- "Mais im Bundeshuus - le génie helvétique" ("Corn in Parliament") is a vertiginous journey down the corridors of the Federal Parliament building in Bern. Constructed as a feature film, it follows the adventures of a parliamentary committee established to create a bill on genetic engineering (Gen-Lex). This political thriller reveals both sides of the coin, namely that of those who have invested, economic interests and of those who fear the negative effects of this revolutionary technology. Amusing, tender, and humane, all the while clearly illustrating the limits of the system, the film functions as a tale of universal power.
- A single mother of three children lives a chaotic and not very wealthy life in which her oldest daughter tries to manage everything and wants to find a decent guy for her mum.
- A Bosnian woman hunting a war criminal and a crime scene cleaner, meet at a hotel in Geneva.
- Swiss family man Marcel Huber is off with his wife and two kids to a nice vacation in the hotel Amsterdam in Rome. Too late they realise their travel agency has made a booking error. Instead to Italy, the four are sent to the hotel Roma in Amsterdam: a sleazy establishment where rooms are rent by the hour. Their suitcases misplaced by the airline and stuck in a hotel in the Red Light District, the family is at the point of total despair. Then the strangely attentive Swiss/Dutch Playboy Jaap steps in to help. He makes a business offer, Marcel can hardly refuse. More trouble follows and family Huber must stand united to overcome all obstacles, or it will break apart.