Swiss
see all genres ›Somewhat overshadowed throughout its history by the filmic outputs of neighboring France, Germany and Italy, whose languages it shares, Switzerland has nonetheless produced a number of important filmmakers (Alain Tanner, Barbet Schroeder, Daniel Schmid and others) as well as numerous famous actors from Ursula Andress to Bruno Ganz.
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Genres / International / European / Swiss
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Fragile
Instead of giving herself time to come to terms with the loss of her relationship, Natalie has a first date with Sascha that triggers exactly what she wanted to suppress: her lovesickness. She needs one night and some more or less self-destructive and bizarre encounters until she can find peace...Watch Movie
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Left Foot Right Foot
Marie, a subdued young woman just emerging from adolescence, is drawn by luxury and glitter like a moth to a flame. Her life changes dramatically when she meets Olivier, a wealthy nightclub owner, who is unable to resist her disconcerting candor. Through him, she learns how to...Watch Movie
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F. est un salaud
Clean-cut 16-year-old Beni is a Zurich high school student just itching for an alternative life. That opportunity comes when he goes to a rock concert where he falls madly in love with FпїЅgi, the dangerously attractive lead singer of the Minks. With looks suggesting a...Watch Movie
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Wagner and Me
English actor and raconteur Stephen Fry explores his passion for history’s most controversial composer, Richard Wagner. Can he salvage Wagner’s music from its association with Hitler? Animated by Fry’s trademark wit and intelligence and set against the backdrop of Germany's annual Bayreuth...Watch Movie
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The Blue Hour
Theo, a hip young, Berlin callboy lives his life alone. In the hotel room he takes his shower and his money. Business is good, so good he can pick and choose his clients. Marie lives next door with her boyfriend, the writer Paul. She works at a record store to support them both, but it is not...Watch Movie
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Amateur Teens
A group of average students at a secondary school in Zürich wrestle with the average teenager's needs: love and acceptance. But when the growing influence of social media tosses them into the grown-up world of sexuality and aggression, their needs turn dangerous. What follows is a tragedy that...Watch Movie
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Walls
What is left behind of the relationship of Nora and Kai is a wall full of memories. Nora is just about to take down the photographs, when Kai suddenly appears to get the rest of his stuff. His appearance is obviously too much for Nora especially when he starts helping her to take down the...Watch Movie
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Kick That Habit
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...Watch Movie
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Sara Gomez: An Afro-Cuban Filmmaker
SARA GOMEZ: AN AFRO-CUBAN FILMMAKER is a rich, multilayered documentary about Afro-Cuban director Sarah Gomez. Born in 1943, she studied literature, piano, and Afro-Cuban ethnography before becoming the first female Cuban filmmaker. A woman of great intelligence, independence...Watch Movie
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War Photographer
The great photojournalist Robert Capa said "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." James Nachtwey, a committed, shy man, considered one of the bravest and most important war photographers of our time, has been close enough for over 20 years - a period...Watch Movie
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Signer's Suitcase
SIGNER'S SUITCASE is a kind of a road movie that follows a magically charged fault-line through the European landscape. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland... a wide-ranging attempt at setting an ideal travel speed. The artist, Roman Signer, marks...Watch Movie
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Aristide and the Endless Revolution
Just one hour south of Miami, the elected president of the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has twice been forced from office with the complicity of the international community. Nicolas Rossier's film investigates the events that led to the second...Watch Movie
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Maria Bethânia: Music is Perfume
In his captivating film, Georges Gachot invites us to enter the universe of Maria Bethania, the famous Brazilian singer. Narrated by Bethania herself, the film not only gives us an insight into the intimate sphere of Maria Bethania's creative process, but focuses on the...Watch Movie
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Return to Goree
A musical road movie, RETURN TO GOREE follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail left by slaves and the jazz music they created. Youssou N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire of his own songs to perform a concert in Goree, the island...Watch Movie
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The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez
José Antonio Gutierrez was one of the 300,000 soldiers sent to war in Iraq by the US Army, a year ago last March. A few hours after the war began, his picture was broadcast all over the world: he was the first American soldier to be killed in the war. Behind the heroic tale...Watch Movie
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Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse
Amidst the chaos of their dead mother’s apartment, two brothers irreverently piece together their family history. It’s a strange but unique saga involving baronesses and counts, stolen lovers and Nazi officers, lawsuits and counter lawsuits and lots and lots of cats....Watch Movie
