Films

Elephants & Squirrels

Gregor Brändli, doc., 114 min., CH 2025

A Sri Lankan artist and the chief of the indigenous Wanniyala-Aetto demand the return of ancestral remains and artifacts from Swiss museums – confronting the country with its hidden colonial past.

Quir – A Palermo Love Story

Nicola Bellucci, doc., 106 min., CH 2024

There is a store in Palermo unlike any other called Quir, a place of love defying any convention – an important meeting place of the LGBTQI+ scene, where people chat about their love stories or seek advice – fighting for acceptance in Sicily, a stronghold of patriarchal culture.

E.1027 – Eileen Gray
and the House by the Sea

Beatrice Minger, co-director: Christoph Schaub, doc./fic., 89 min., CH 2024

She built a house for herself. Unfortunately it turned out to be a masterpiece. «E.1027» is a cinematic journey into the mind of avant-garde design icon and architect Eileen Gray.

Segnali di vita

Leandro Picarella, doc., 105 min., IT/CH 2023

An astrophysicist learns in a mountain village that humanity cannot be grasped through science alone.

Play with the Devil – Becoming Zeal & Ardor

Olivier Joliat, Matthias Willi, doc., 72 min., CH 2023

Religion, racism, appropriation: with Zeal & Ardor, Swiss-American musician Manuel Gagneux successfully breaks taboos — until he no longer trusts his role.

Gadjo – A journey into Yenish Europe

Andreas Müller, Simon Guy Fässler, Marcel Bächtiger, doc., 118 min., CH 2023

The portrait of a hidden culture, characterized by love of freedom, marked by wounds of the past. A magical journey through Yenish Europe.

Parallel Lives

Frank Matter, doc., 139 min., CH 2021

What determines our biography? Is it fate, coincidence, zeitgeist? 5 people, 4 continents, 5 decades. All born on June 8th, 1964.

Ann’s Pub

Thabea Furrer, doc., 26 min., CH 2021

Ann never goes out, because she lives right behind the counter of her little pub in Athlone, Ireland. The pub is like a stage on which she plays her part night after night. Everyone knows the quick-witted and energetic Ann. But who is she really?

Arada

Jonas Schaffter, doc., 83 min., CH 2020

«Arada» explores a hidden milieu and tells moving stories about individual human fates behind the political and legal disputes over deportation policy.

I’ll be your mirror

Johanna Faust, doc., 91 min., CH 2019

«I’ll be your mirror» is an extraordinarily personal road movie about a taboo subject. With unsparing honesty and captivating imagery, the film explores how intergenerational traumata can unknowingly, and profoundly, impact our lives.

Ciao Babylon

Kurt Reinhard, Christoph Schreiber, doc., 52 min., CH 2017

«Ciao Babylon» takes us to New York where Dan Kaufman is committed to preserve endangered languages. The film also follows Giancarlo Malchiodi from Brooklyn to the Swiss Alps on his way to rediscover his mother tongue Romanish, a language that may die out within a few decades.

Amalia e Giancarlo

Kurt Reinhard, Christoph Schreiber, doc., 25 min., CH 2017

«Amalia e Giancarlo» tells the touching emigration history of eighty-six-year-old Amalia Malchiodi-Cadieli. Sixty years ago, the Surselva native travelled to the United States with a well-to-do family and later settled in New York. But she never forgot her home and her language.

Grozny Blues

Nicola Bellucci, doc., 104 min., CH 2015

«Grozny Blues» follows a few people around Grozny, the capital of war-torn Chechnya where daily life is defined by political repression, constricting customs, forced Islamification and the failure to come to terms with recent history.

La buena vida – The Good Life

Jens Schanze, doc, 97 min., GER/CH 2015

«La buena vida – The Good Life» tells the story of the Colombian village community of Tamaquito against the backdrop of the global pursuit of growth and prosperity.

Thomas Hirschhorn – Gramsci Monument

Angelo A. Lüdin, doc., 94 min., CH 2015

In 2013, Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn builds a monument for Italian philosopher and communist Antonio Gramsci in a public housing project in the Bronx. The artist collaborates with neighborhood residents and encounters different realities, life concepts and cultural identities.

From One Day To The Next

Frank Matter, doc., 95 min., CH 2013

«From One Day To The Next» tells the touching story of four elderly people who, with humanity and wit, are fighting for dignity, autonomy and a piece of happiness while confronting the slow mental and physical decline of old age.

Nel giardino dei suoni

Nicola Bellucci, Doc., 85 Min., CH 2010

«Nel giardino dei suoni» tells the extraordinary story of Wolfgang Fasser, a blind musician and soundscape artist who works with severely handicapped children, helping them to find their place in a world not made for them.

The Definition of Insanity

Frank Matter, Robert Margolis, fic., 85 min., CH/USA 2004

«The Definition of Insanity» is a film about big dreams and everyday rituals, humiliating defeats and little triumphs, and the inexplicable optimism, some might call it delusion, that keeps us going.

The Beauty Of My Island – Shooting Klaus Lutz

Frank Matter, doc., 33 min., CH/USA 1999

«The Beauty of My Island – Shooting Klaus Lutz» is a silent examination of an artist’s unique working process, a playful, charming, and in its own way often funny reflection on illusion and perception, movement and speed, light and darkness, shape and color, film and video.

Morocco

Frank Matter, fic., 90 min., CH/USA 1996

Martin Haberstich thinks he witnessed a murder. When he finds out what really happened, it’s too late … «Morocco» is a slightly surrealistic murder mystery about perception, the virtual reality in our minds, and the relation between subject and object.

Hannelore

Frank Matter, Michael Luisier, fic., 46 min., CH 1993

Ernst Portmann was a totally inconspicuos citizen – until the day he’s had enough …