Luc Yersin

Un matrimonio y sus tres hijos viven felices en las proximidades de una autopista abandonada desde hace diez años. Cuando las obras de la autopista terminan y empiezan a circular por ella los primeros coches, deciden no quedarse quietos. Pero poco a poco este insoportable tráfico trastornará el equilibrio de lo que hasta ahora había sido una familia unida. Su empeño por quedarse en su pequeño paraíso les llevará a perder progresivamente la razón. Seleccionada por Suiza como candidada al Oscar 2010 en la categoría de película de habla no inglesa. (FILMAFFINITY)

La revolución sandinista incitó a cientos de jóvenes occidentales a realizar sus ideales políticos en Nicaragua. Todo parecía posible en un país en plena reconstrucción socialista después de décadas del régimen totalitario de Somoza. Una generación de activistas se unió a la revolución y experimentó con ella diariamente. A partir de 1982, "la Contra", una guerrilla contrarrevolucionaria financiada por Estados Unidos, atacó al país para debilitar a los sandinistas. La guerra civil cobró 50,000 víctimas, entre las cuales había unos veinte jóvenes extranjeros. Después de pasar cuatro años en Nicaragua, el ingeniero agrónomo suizo Maurice Demierre fue asesinado en una emboscada el 16 de febrero de 1986. Se convirtió en mártir de la revolución. La película se remonta al viaje de Maurice Demierre y su compañera Chantal Bianchi, desde su partida de Suiza en 1982 hasta la peregrinación de Chantal a la tumba de Maurice veinte años después de su muerte.

Documentary in 7 segments whose theme is "Multicultural Switzerland". The segments are: "Raclette Curry", "Was Wie Wann Wohin Gehört", "Home Alone?", "Hopp Schwyz", "Mixed Up", "Making of a Jew" and "Train Fantôme".

This film deals with the issue of mandatory military service in Switzerland. For four months, from February to May 1990, filmmaker Jacqueline Veuve and her team filmed a platoon engaged in basic training at Colombier, Switzerland.

A cyclist decides to go for everything and win the 'Tour of Chile' Race, so he can finance the medical treatment for his ill mother with the prize. However, he must soon recognize that the sporting event is corrupted by commercial and marketing interests, in addition to the political goals of the military regime.

Two teenage lovers are caught up in the thrill of forbidden love in this tragic romantic drama. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Andre) is a 16-year-old French lad who loves 14-year-old Djemila (Nadja Reski), the offspring of Algerian immigrants. Pierre's father is an Algerian war veteran who tolerates living with the immigrants at the low-income housing project as long as the two factions are separated. Djemila's older brother carries bitter hatred for the French over their invasion of Algeria. Both young lovers fall victim to the intolerance of their families when their relatives discover that the two are engaged in a passionate love affair.

A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.

To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency through one on one contact. Free of the institution he continues to be haunted by dreams of a lost twin and chants the eerie phrase "Do I stand before the king?" It is the elder brother that seems doomed to lose himself in his brother's insanity.

Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. This documentary, which has achieved cult-like status among opera and music lovers, features former singers who reminisce about their careers and their past operatic roles.

A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.

A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.

Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk.

Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk.

Two men and a young girl meet at the end of the world

The old farm worker Pipe is old enough to retire. Even so he cannot imagine a life without work. So he keeps on doing his job and wonders what to do with his additional financial means.

In this docudrama, the real star is a railroad tunnel. First built, at the instigation of a banker and an engineer, in 1872 under appalling conditions, it was widened to accommodate automobiles in 1972. The tunnel links the Rhineland in Germany with Italy and goes through the Swiss mountains. The many lives lost in the building of the first tunnel were considered to be one of the costs for economic progress. In one re-enactment, a strike for better conditions is severely dealt with by the military. Even in 1972, though working conditions were better, most of the men working on the tunnel were poor immigrant workers, with almost no power to negotiate better treatment.

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband's love has cured her, but her efforts to love him begin to fade as she discovers true love with her husband's old school friend.

Directed by José Varela

Un acaudalado fabricante de relojes suizos decide abandonarlo todo el día del centenario de la firma uniendose a una pareja de marginados.