Dihya

Dihya reveals her world, her secrets, her stories. She reigns in this dehumanized world, like a queen, a warrior.

The Life Underground

Noah, a young man in search of his identity, is invited by his best friend, Ethan, to take part in the expeditions he organises with his gang in the depths of the metro. In this in-between world, where they compete to find their place, Ethan will challenge the teenagers to jump over the rails before the train arrives. For Noah, risking his life seems to be the only way to be accepted and above all to exist in Ethan's eyes.

Thing

The ways of love are strange indeed. Sometimes they lead to the neighbours’ patio roof or to the music stand of a piano in the university basement. Both Valentina and Sonnili are in an intimate relationship with an object. Even if the hurdles might look incomparable to those encountered by more traditional love stories, the core topics remain the same: intimacy, comfort and the idea that the world is a nicer place if you share it.

Es muss

Dream Racing

Oscar, 18 years old, is passionate about horse racing. At night, he dreams of winning horses and bets on them every day with success at the popular bar in his neighbourhood. When one evening he sees a former lover of his mother's, everything falls apart. The return of this man in his life causes Oscar a real emotional shock that brings back dark memories and tragically affects his premonitions.

Beyto

Er ist ein talentierter Schwimmer und motivierter Lehrling: Beyto steht mitten im Leben. Doch als sich der Sohn türkischer Einwanderer in seinen Trainer Mike verliebt, bricht die heile Welt zusammen. Seine Eltern sehen nur einen Ausweg: Sie locken ihn in ihr Heimatdorf und planen eine Hochzeit mit Seher, seiner Freundin aus Kindheitstagen. Plötzlich befindet sich Beyto in einer zerreissenden Dreiecksbeziehung. Subtil, sinnlich und voller Sommerwärme erzählt Gitta Gsell die Liebesgeschichte ...

Joe Bell

Der Bestatter

Nestor Burma

Cynical private detective Nestor Burma investigating murders, missing persons, kidnapping and extortion cases in every arrondissement of Paris.

Our Planet

Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope.

Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst

Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst is a German television programme broadcast since October 1967 on ZDF that aims to combat and solve crimes. Until 2003 it was produced in co-operation with the Austrian public service broadcaster ORF and Schweizer Fernsehen, a division of the Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR idée suisse. It was the basis for the BBC show Crimewatch, the Dutch show Opsporing Verzocht and its US equivalent America's Most Wanted. The goal of the programme is to throw light on ...

Zürcher Tagebuch

One-way to Moscow

30 years ago, Switzerland was shaken by a scandal that seems to have already been forgotten: more than 900,000 people were surveilled because of their political convictions. Against the backdrop of this "secret files scandal," Micha Lewinsky sets his film. Conscientious policeman Viktor Schuler is tasked by his superior to infiltrate the Schauspielhaus, a renowned Zurich theatre, in order to keep an eye on its leftist scene. However, Viktor finds himself quite taken with the artist's life ...

Saudi Runaway

Amjad, a young, fearless woman from Saudi Arabia, is tired of being controlled by the state and patronized by her family. With an arranged marriage imminent, a life without rights and free will seems inevitable. Amjad decides to escape. An unprecedented view inside the world’s most repressive patriarchy.

Paul Nizon: Der Nagel im Kopf

The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzerland, who became what “he was meant to be” in Paris. Now 90-year-old, Paul Nizon grants insights into his life and work in a self-ironic, direct manner. The intimate portrait of a great literary outsider emerges, for whom the risk of life and the risk of writing merge into one and the same work of art.

Contradict

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.

Platzspitzbaby

Frühling 1995: Nach der Auflösung der offenen Drogenszene in Zürich ziehen die elfjährige Mia und ihre Mutter Sandrine in ein idyllisches Städtchen im Zürcher Oberland. Doch das neue Zuhause ist für Mia kein Paradies. Denn Sandrine ist schwer drogenabhängig und hätte niemals das Sorgerecht erhalten dürfen. Mia flüchtet sich in eine Fantasiewelt mit einem imaginären Freund. Mit ihm unterhält sie sich in den einsamen Stunden und schmiedet fantastische Pläne für ein Inselleben mit ihrer ...

Audrey

An intimate look at Audrey Hepburn's life, with access to exclusive never-before-seen footage from her family's personal collection, providing an unprecedented and insightful view on Audrey, her life and her dreams, aspirations and her everlasting legacy.

La Belle Hélène – Opéra de Lausanne

My Little One

Salam Godzilla

Terminal

An 80-year-old woman spends her time at a bus station. She’s waiting for the right moment to leave this place forever.

Wolves Return

Wolves divide and fascinate us. 150 years after they were driven to extinction in Central Europe, they are returning slowly but inexorably. Are they dangerous to humans? Is it possible to coexist? Using Switzerland as a point of departure, where wolves have returned in the very recent past, this documentary sheds light on the wolf situation in Austria, eastern Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, and even Minnesota, where freely roaming packs of wolves are more common sight.

Vagenda Stories

When Leila discovers at her sister Amanda's wedding that the latter is pregnant, she promptly reveals the carefully guarded secret. While the guests are happy, Amanda worries about her career and Leila about her fertility. Panic-stricken, Leila sets herself a goal: get pregnant! So together with her friend Sophie she throws herself into the nightlife. Sophie is more concerned with the search for babysitters and probably won't snatch a man from her.