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- This film about a black spider that symbolizes evil works well when focusing on the old 19th century story by Jeremias Gotthelf. A group of drug addicts are doing without because of a crooked dealer and in desperation, they break into a chemical plant to get their hands on what they need, later escaping to temporary shelter in a farmhouse. While one woman trips out, she hallucinates the story of the black spider, set in the Emmental valley of Switzerland in the middle ages. At that time, a beautiful farmer's wife makes a pact with the devil: if he helps the men survive the excessive toil imposed by a tyrannical knight, she will give him a newborn baby. When the time comes to collect the child, the wife has the baby baptised right after birth, and the devil is foiled. In revenge, he sends a black spider into the village to spread pestilence and death.
- GHAME AFGHAN was filmed from October 85 to January 86 under extremely difficult conditions in the contested tribal area of Afghanistan/Pakistan by an Afghan-Swiss-Pakistani film crew. Filming took place in the impenetrable mountain ranges near the Khyber Pass, the desert wilderness of Belutshistan and several refugee camps near Peshawar. The film tells the story of an Afghan peasant family getting caught up in the turmoils during the Russian occupation. . The shepherd find a wounded mujahideen and carries him home. The Mujahed dies that night. The dead body is discovered the next day and the shepherd arrested. His family decides to flee to Pakistan. Completely disheartened and destitute, they reach the refugee camp on the other side of the border after days of walking through desert and rocky areas. The family can't get their bearings. They are uprooted. The younger sister is grabbed in the open street and bartered off to a wealthy merchant.
- Mark M. Rissi discusses the collaboration between the international business mafia and Swiss pharmaceutical and research facilities in procuring dogs and cats for laboratory experiments. The ethical question arises: should drugs tested for effectiveness and reliability on entirely different species be permitted? Between 1979 and 1990, some research institutes and universities displayed significant negligence, using dogs and cats not specifically bred for research. This points to a fundamental failure on the part of control authorities. Traders have been proven to supply established laboratories with stolen, captured, and often mentally unstable dogs, accompanied by falsified papers.