Switzerland

  • Fredi M. Murer – Balance (1965)

    Fredi M. Murer1961-1970ArthouseShort FilmSwitzerland

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    A young man is balancing on a rope. A young woman with a pistol appers. In the middle of war noise, they won’t to bury him, when he suddenly awakes… A very early short from Murer and a key study for his later (and phantastic!!!) film “Pazifik – oder die Zufriedenen”. It’s a poetic aproach, which mixes up passion, love and fear of war.Read More »

  • Anne-Marie Mieville – Libre propos sur la fonction de mère – Papa comme maman (1977)

    Anne-Marie Miéville1971-1980DocumentarySwitzerlandTV

    Hiver 1977. Anne-Marie Mieville, Alain Tanner, Loretta Verna et Francis Reusser réalisent chacun, à l’aide de films super 8 mm et de vidéo étroite, une oeuvre personnelle pour l’émission Ecoutez voir.

    Ce film d’Anne-Marie Mieville est diffusé le 18 novembre 1977, sous le titre Papa comme maman. C’est le volet de la série. Anne-Marie Mieville s’attache au thème singulier de la violence des parents sur leurs enfants. Père et mère peuvent chacun faire subir une violence cachée dans l’univers de la famille.Read More »

  • Andreas Fontana – Azor (2021)

    2021-2030Andreas FontanaDramaSwitzerland

    Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight.Read More »

  • Cihan Inan – 180° (2010)

    2001-2010Cihan InanDramaSwitzerland

    SYNOPSIS
    Early evening – a big city. Two teenagers shyly flirt with each other, a housewife sits down to watch her daily soap, nurses in a hospital gossip before the nightshift starts, a trendy couple drives through rush hour, so excited they can hardly wait to get home – a man with a rifle enters a building seeking revenge. In the blink of an eye seemingly unrelated events turn upside down what were once secure, happy, ‘normal’ lives. Behind fear, beyond the unexpected, there is love and hope.Read More »

  • Anne-Marie Miéville – Mon cher sujet AKA My Dear Subject (1988)

    1981-1990Anne-Marie MiévilleArthouseSwitzerland

    Synopsis
    From birth to death every subject remains intact. Three ages, three women. Daughter, mother, grandmother. Each of them before and after still and always. And the men too, those they meet those they love.Read More »

  • Peter Liechti – Marthas Garten AKA Martha’s Garden (1997)

    1991-2000DramaPeter LiechtiSci-FiSwitzerland

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    Since weeks it’s cold and wet. It’s already late, Karl Winter is on his way home. Under dark circumstances he accidentally meets a woman of mysterious fascination – Martha… And so begins a love story of fatal dynamics which throws Karl far off the tracks of reason. Wicked dreams and subliminal changes in Karl’s surroundings confirm his feelings that with Martha the uncanniness has also entered his life.Read More »

  • Fredi M. Murer – Grauzone (1979)

    1971-1980DramaFredi M. MurerSwitzerland

    After his remarkable documentary about mountain farmers, We Who Dwell in the Mountains Cannot Be Blamed for Being There (1974), Zurich-born filmmaker Fredi M. Murer came down to the city to film the gray suburbs and their anguished inhabitants embedded in what he called a “fictional documentary” written in collaboration with a number of scriptwriters (including writer Adolf Muschg). Set in a black and white world with an air of the fantastic, the story revolves around a young couple confronted with a mysterious epidemic the government is trying to cover up. A portrait of an urban Switzerland utterly disconnected from its roots, Grauzone (1979) is one of the most powerful works about the Swiss society of control that prefigures the social movements that had their heyday in Zurich in 1980 (“Züri Brännt”).Read More »

  • Anne-Marie Miéville – Lou n’a pas dit non (1994)

    1991-2000Anne-Marie MiévilleArthouseSwitzerland

    Synopsis
    Pierre et Lou sont séparés. Lui sur le point de se remarier mais y renonçant à la mairie. Lou travaille sur un film présentant les statues de Mars et Vénus au Louvre. Pierre et Lou sortent ensemble quelquefois le soir. Mais tandis qu’il papillonne d’une femme à une autre, Lou se lie à Théo, le conservateur du musée, détesté par Pierre. Lou participe aussi à l’action d’une association luttant pour les personnes traversant des difficultés morales. Lou termine son court-métrage qui est projeté.Read More »

  • Fabrizio Albertini – Io sono una Sirena AKA I am a Mermaid (2020)

    2011-2020DocumentaryFabrizio AlbertiniQueer Cinema(s)Switzerland

    Synopsis
    Michele lives and studies in London. They’ve been dreaming of working in fashion since they were a child, and they are now a gender fluid model at an agency. Born a man, Michele feels they are a third sex.
    (arte.tv)Read More »

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